Parliamentary ex-official confirms MP will sabotage any expense reforms

The report is in The Guardian from which comes this quote:

Sir Roger Sands, former clerk to the House of Commons, writing in today's letters pages, questions the ability and resources of the anti-sleaze watchdog, the Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL), to be able to tackle the problem.

He warns: "Members of parliament are distinct from other elements of the public service, such as judges, army officers and senior civil servants, in having this ability to overturn, or covertly sabotage, the findings of the independent review body."

He predicts: "Unless this fundamental issue is addressed, a further review by the Committee on Standards in Public Life ... will only serve to delay for many months, or even years, a solution to this problem which has so deeply and distressingly damaged the public's trust in the central institution of our democracy."

A commitment to withhold the pensions of these thoroughly unsavoury characters, who will clearly stop at nothing to continue their fat lives doing 20% of any normal job, is now essential! See my earlier post of today and others tagged MP Maggots or MP Pensions.