Correction – this is the most inflated ego award

Posted on | May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments

The never ending UK MP expense saga just keeps giving and giving. One of the latest casualties of the public anger over the indulgences was Conservative MP Anthony Steen. He is stepping down and will not run again after it was revealed he dinged the public purse for £87,729 over a 4 year period. The expenses went to maintaining his estate in Devon, including maintaining the health of the 500 trees on the estate and ensuring there was no bunny damage to any of the estate shrubbery. No, I am not pulling your leg on this – this is what the beleaguered British public were paying for.

Mr. Steen is not at all happy. He claims the expense investigation has been an unwarranted invasion of his privacy. He labours under the illusion that the public should pay his private expenses and just shut up about it. Matter of fact, he believes he has been a model citizen:

I think I have behaved impeccably. I have done nothing criminal. And you know what it’s about? Jealousy. I have got a very, very large house. Some people say it looks like Balmoral, but it’s a merchant’s house from the 19th centur,…We have a wretched Government here that has completely mucked up the system and caused the resignation of me and many others, because it was this Government that introduced the Freedom of Information Act and it is this Government that insisted on the things which caught me on the wrong foot.

There you go! This has nothing to do with an inflated sense of entitlement and improper use of public money. It all comes down to the fact the public are just a bunch of petty, jealous plebs.  How dare the public get between Mr. Steen and his tiny Balmoral-upon-Devon. Just pay his personal bills and shut up. He went further in his rant and said “What right does the public have to interfere in my private life?” Honey, if you take the public’s money to pay your personal upkeep, then your invoices are no longer private. The expenses system was meant to defray the cost of setting up a second residence when Parliament was in session. It was never meant to pay for rabbit removal. Last I checked Parliament is in London, and I don’t imagine there is a huge rabbit infestation there. Other rodents, yes, but bush nibbling rabbits? No.

So this mess is all the government’s fault. If they hadn’t been so careless and let the public know how much larceny had been going on then none of the MPs would be forced to resign. Perhaps the British public could bare to foot one more expense – the purchase of a bushel of moral compasses.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/anthony-steen-youre-all-just-jealous-1689211.html

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