Ethics and expenses
It's morally wrong to use public funds to purchase a private asset that could be sold on for personal gain. Most 12 year olds can grasp that. So why did so few of our elected law makers? Being "within the rules" is no defence for people whose job is to make our country's rules. Supposedly. Why should it take Kelly, who is reported to want to ban MPs publicly-funded mortgage payments, to impose a standard of ethics that ought to be blindingly obvious? And if this rotten, venal House of Commons is not capable of getting those questions right, how can it be trusted to get the big political questions right? Thus do we begin to see why it is we are governed the way we are. Douglas Carswell MP
It's morally wrong to use public funds to purchase a private asset that could be sold on for personal gain. Most 12 year olds can grasp that. So why did so few of our elected law makers? Being "within the rules" is no defence for people whose job is to make our country's rules. Supposedly. Why should it take Kelly, who is reported to want to ban MPs publicly-funded mortgage payments, to impose a standard of ethics that ought to be blindingly obvious? And if this rotten, venal House of Commons is not capable of getting those questions right, how can it be trusted to get the big political questions right? Thus do we begin to see why it is we are governed the way we are. Douglas Carswell MP