I found the following paragraph in The Guardian today – can this really be right?
Margaret Beckett
“The housing minister with a penchant for the modest charms of a caravanning holiday has rather more lavish tastes when it comes to financing her staff. Overall her expense claim of £137,206 is nothing to raise an eyebrow at, ranking her the 448th most expensive MP to the taxpayer. More remarkable is the fact she decided to spend the vast proportion of that claim – £107,458 – on staff, the highest of any MP. In previous years Beckett has come in for criticism for employing her husband, Leo, to run her office in Derby South.”
I wouldn’t normally raise this as an issue but as she doesn’t even have a website to maintain, or an email account to check – what are all those staffing costs going on?!
Can it ever be right to spend over a hundred grand of taxpayers money on an office staffed by your husband?
Nice work if you can get it. In times of hardship and unemployment these Labour MPs have absolutely no shame as they ride the gravy train.
Somehow I am not surprised.