So is the Kelly report shaking up MPs’ expenses going to be implemented or not?
Reading some newspapers over the last three days, you might get the impression that the new head of the IPSA body which has to implement and run a new expenses system, Sir Ian Kennedy, is throwing out great chunks of Sir Christopher Kelly’s recommendations.
The two men have spoken since those newspaper reports came out and will meet face to face this week.
There are many practical challenges involved in implementing the Kelly report. But MPs who are praying for a complete rewrite are whistling in the dark.
I understand that the IPSA team – small but growing – is planning to put out a draft version of new rules in December and will then consult for something like 4-6 weeks.
IPSA is determined to get the new rules ready to roll from what is known in the jargon as “P+1″ – that’s the first day of the new parliament.
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MPs – if backbenchers – need stay a maximum of 150 nights pa in London and then only in hotels’ off-peak seasons. Unlike earlier times, they get to leave the House by 7pm or earlier. Which means they don’t need to stay within the Division Bell area. If a group of them can’t negotiate low rates with good quality hoteliers, they shouldn’t be managing our nation’s affairs. The proposed allowance is ample!
It is essential that the complete new IPSA Expenses Rules are published before nominations close for the General Election. That way, every candidate will have entered the race in full knowledge and advance acceptance of the terms and conditions. After which, no more bleating – they knew what they were applying for. Anyone who doesn’t like the new rules need not apply – game over.
It’s time to close the past book and move on – and if that means some slippery old MPs got away with a few quid, so be it – the long-term future of our representative democracy is far more important.
Those MPs who are still conducting their usual fraudulent ways in trying to dilute the Kelly review, are the scum that need extracting from politics. Their greed knows no bounds and their arrogance and ignorance to the damage done to the UK reputation and hatreds caused by their corrupt ways, shows just how indifferent they are.
Trying to cherry pick the recommendations is clearly their goal but, if they were getting the real justified deserts, they’d be ‘negotiating’ their jail term with their friends in high places instead.
MP’S have lost all respect with their lying and cheating,though it may be the few have tarnished the majority.
It was stated that Kelly’s recommendations should be accepted in full and if that is the case Kennedy should just go ahead and enforce the new rules.It is not in his remit to alter them and any MP that fails to see and accept that should be booted out on their backside
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