Amongst all the talk of what can or can’t be cut, there has been mention of cutting “unnecessary programmes“. Which I certainly haven’t been alone in wondering why we’re spending on anything unnecessary in the first place and why cutting back on waste isn’t just an on going process.
Still it’s ever so nice to see the ever erudite Frank Field asking the same thing.
I can’t believe I’m different from the average voter. If there are unnecessary programmes what the hell are we doing providing them?
(Go read the whole article, you know you want to, he also feels that there will have to be “mega cuts”).
And on a related topic it seems that our troughing MPs not only aren’t being quite so prompt to pay back money they owe as perhaps other people would be expected to (No surprise there I know), but also aren’t even terribly good at settling their tabs in the subsidised bars and restaurants within the palace. Which just makes me wonder why the fee’s office doesn’t take the same approach as most universities (who withhold your degree whilst you owe them money) and not allow MP’s with outstanding tabs to return after any of parliaments breaks. Or if that’s felt as being too harsh I’d almost settle for MP’s with money owed to the fee’s office (and by extension to their constituents and tax payers generally) being barred from standing for re-election.
