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Expenses: What's so annoying
Reading with a range of emotions about the storm that has brewed, and hopefully will for some time, over the taxpayers' funding of the political classes, I wonder what it is that really gets my back up in such a way that makes me want to move to a remote island.
I'm not sure the fact that pretty much all elected parliamentary public servants have dipped a bit too deeply into the taxpayers' pocket without them knowing is such a focus of my annoyance and despair. I wonder what I would do in their situation.
If someone offered me a second home as a perk I can't honestly say I would be able to say "no thanks", would you?
And once in your mind you are able to justify the great expense to the taxpayer of the cost of a second property, I can't imagine the cost of a few flat screen television, maybe an iPod or two and a bit of dog food or perhaps some extravagant book shelves is going to cripple your conscience.
However, I am in the privileged position of not being a politician, so feel at liberty to continue to register my concerns.
What gets my back up is not the apparent theft this has been made out to be from the public purse but the language used to address these people and their actions.
For example, the use of the word 'error' used to describe the actions of politicians under investigation when referring to basic judgment calls.
The whole mindset of questioning where responsibility and accountability lies for upsetting the electorate in such a way displays complete disregard for their situations during economic hardship and smacks of contempt of the electorate's sense of justice.
Adam Parry, Morley
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