McNulty keeps his promise
The former Home Office and Employment Minister Tony McNulty has apologised after being ordered to repay £13,837 of expenses claimed on his second home. Mr McNulty designated his constituency home in Harrow East, about 13 miles from Westminster, as his second home for expense purposes. It is also the home where his parents live permanently, while he himself lives in Hammersmith, about 3 miles from Westminster. When his expenses were first made the subject of an investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Mr McNulty promised to come back on this programme and discuss the issue in full. Today he kept his promise.
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Sure McNulty kept his promise, partly, he said he would talk to your listeners but came on so late as to make that impossible.
What McNulty and his peers don't get is that essentially its not the amount of money involved, personally i dont care if he made £60000 or 60000 pence its the fact that he thought he deserved this money.
He kept harping on about how he checked with the fees office at every step and that his peers, because thats who sat in judgement of him after all, believed him yet not once did he comprehensively address the fact that he actually lived 8 miles from his "2nd" home except some flippant remark about not joining the rest of us on the roads at rush hour.
He can deny it all he likes he worked the system to make it cheaper for his parents to live in the 2nd residence and the.
The whole system is corrupt from top to bottom and the fact that we get perverse judgements from the politicos who judge their peers just compounds my feeling of frustration at the bare faced cheek of their corrupt practices.
To actually say that McNulty deserved a rebate on the amount repayable because he didn't rip off the tax payer for as much as he could have as the Welsh committee memeber said makes a mockery of the system of scrutiny. Maybe the next time a thief robs a bank say he should leave some of the loot behind and use it as mitigating circumstances because he didn't steal as much as he could have therefore actually saving the bank money just like McNulty did.
He says hes satisfied and has no objection to the judgement, well if a mob of my mates had said i could trouser £47k that i shouldn't have claimed in the first place if i had any honour id wouldn't object either.
Honourable gentleman McNulty and his kind dont know how to spell the word never mind live up to its meaning.
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There is kind of the implication in the question that he might not have kept his promise. As you people in the media world know him better than me I find the implication i.e your view on an ex-minister very revealing...
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Totally agree with comment no. 1. I just KNEW it would go this way! I said so on thread below. You blew it.
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"McNulty keeps his promise"
Well, there's a first time for everything, I suppose. Hang on, though, turning up a few minutes before the end of the programme so as to limit the interrogation doesn't count.
So, politician doesn't really keep his promise, then. Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose.
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