MONEY

Sometimes, it's hard when what others recommend as economies are things one couldn't afford in the first place.

MONEY

Sometimes there is comfort in knowing one is already poor.

MONEY

David Blunkett M.P. - Gives his girlfriend a train ticket which should have been for his wife’s use.

Reaction - Shock, Horror, Moral Outrage. He can’t possibly keep his job!

Peter Hain M.P. - Lack of appropriate and public accounting for £103,000 in donations to his campaign for deputy leadership.

Reaction - incompetence - being busy isn’t an excuse - just shows how you can’t get good staff nowadays . . . how silly of him to think he had a chance of winning anyway! . . . No-one thinks he’s corrupt but He Really Will Have To Resign! (Soon, probably, we think . . . )

Derek Conway M.P. . . . Employs his son (a university student) and pays him handsomely for work he hasn’t done.

Reaction - Well, the £50,000 involved was less that Peter Hain’s undeclared campaign money.
Perhaps . . . David Cameron should withdraw the whip?
Perhaps . . . Mr Conway shouldn’t stand at the next election?
Perhaps . . . he gave his other son a similar amount . . . Or more?

Me - Totally perplexed and puzzled. When I worked in a factory bakery, anyone caught taking a bun and eating it could be sacked on the spot for theft.