Charlie Boy Meynard

A nice clean window on MPs' pampered world

WITH the cost of living on the up and up, these are worrying economic times.
Thousands of families are well and truly feeling the pinch as it gets ever more expensive to fill up with petrol or put food in their mouths.
But at least our political representatives – or, should I say, 14 in particular – are doing OK.
Details of expenses claimed by MPs were released after a legal battle to keep them secret failed.
And boy, it’s no wonder some wanted to keep the truth hidden from the public.
Did you know that taxpayers’ money – that’s yours and my hard-earned cash – paid for Gordon Brown to have Sky TV?
And we stumped up £10,000 for former PM Tony Blair to get a new kitchen.
Stevenage MP Barbara Follett charged us £1,600 to have the windows cleaned at her London gaff.
So next time you’re counting the pennies to pay for the weekly shop, be comforted that good ol’ Gordon can relax and watch live Premier League footy and Barbara Follett can see across the street from her living room.
And it’s not like they can’t afford to cough up, either.
As a Government minister, Mrs Follett earns more in a year than nurses and teachers do in about five.
Is it not high time time that this political gravy train finally hit the buffers?