Give MPs’ expenses to NHS (From Stourbridge News)

Give MPs’ expenses to NHS

1:00pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

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I AM writing to you from another world. No, I’m still on this one, but just now I’m in Russells Hall hospital, which is really like another world on its own, where they are really looking after me. The staff I have met are all busy bees, not too busy to look after you, but if possible have a little chat, always a smile.

When I came here, the news was all about our marvellous MPs and their exorbitant claims for “second homes” and, as I’ve time for thinking, I’ve been wishing how I would like England to be in the future.

First of all, the workers here picked their job to be looking after other people who were sick and they really earn every penny of their salaries. They do not get the appreciation they deserve.

Now the MPs, have they forgotten that, in the beginning, they decided that was what they wanted to do, but it was us who voted them into Parliament, hoping they would make Britain into Great Britain again and we would have sensible laws. The laws we have had for centuries need bringing up to date quickly, get us into modern times but don’t take years to do it or we will never catch up with the rest of the world.

Why do the MPs need second homes as large and fabulous as the ones we have seen on TV? Couldn’t an empty office block (now so many have lost their jobs) be converted to flats for them, still paying rent but it would be cheaper than the mansions they seem to have now.

There is always someone who can find a loophole in every law and take full advantage of it, always to their benefit of course. I would have expected the MPs to be above that. I am a pensioner so perhaps I should “get with it” and forget that now it is everyone for themselves and blow everyone else, apart from the health people who we cannot do without.

When you think we are in a recession, people losing their jobs, even some of them their homes and there are the MPs who, when they were saying “vote for us, we will do as you want us to”, we can now see who was talking the truth and who was lying. The TV shows us inside the House, but all the leaders of the parties seem to do is shout insults across at each other. When does the work begin, and how does anything get done?

Can we believe that the ones who did a bit of fiddling, (yes I know it was OK by the rules, but they knew they were pulling a fast one), will pay back the money they should not have had, no other punishment involved?

If the nurses here had a pedometer strapped to their ankle you would find they walk miles, looking after patients, so the money the MPs pay back should be given to the NHS hospitals to nurses as a thank you gift in their salaries for all the hard work they do.

Prepare yourselves for 2010 when we should have a General Election unless it is demanded before and please vote wisely. If you don’t, how can you grumble at the result.

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