Let them eat gruel!

Good god. While I am not one to run about hysterically when it comes to MP expenses, I have to chuckle that Bellamys is saying they need every penny of their $316,000 annual subsidy to maintain "the quality and extent of services" for our MPs.

Gosh I bet the MPs would hate to be told to go and find their own meals after sitting in the house spending our money, and in Labours case doing it in breathtakingly extortionate amounts. Sure Wellington and indeed the area surrounding the Beehive have some shocking excuses of restaurants available in the later hours of the day, but MPs - just like other people - have legs and can walk down to grab a feed on Courtney Place. Winston was able to wander down to the Green Parrot and still had the energy to drink vast quantities of alcohol and start fights.

What gives? Parliamentary services needs to start thinking like the Mums and Dads of NZ and provide a service that provides the good honest basics each day. Add to that the good old ACT ethos to help somebody enough to help themselves and we may have MPs trotting off to their taxpayer funded Wellington flats to cook for themselves, heavens forbid.

MPs have it too easy and I don't have any sympathy for them whatsoever.

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