You have to open any decent newspaper today and see the abuse by people in power of the taxes that the public are paying.From members of parliament to council executives but not only to these who are supposed to work for us but the union labour leaders that are again supposed to help protect us. We have the BBC that is cutting jobs to save money yet they are going to pay Tim Hennman £200,000 for two weeks work reporting on Wimbledon, that's £14,000 a day, when confronted over this a BBC spokeswoman said that "we never comment on talent pay." What hypocrisy but more importantly why not its our money, and he never won Wimbledon any way. So he couldn't have been that talented just lucky at times. Then we have the fat cat chiefs of a quango that was put in charge of cutting wasteful public spending have been buying each other restaurant meals costing up to £600 a time all paid for buy the taxpayer. These people Michael O'Higgins and Steve Bundred chairman and former chief executive of the Audit Commission who's motto is Protecting the public purse, wined and dined senior contacts including BBC former presenter Evan Davis at an opulent French restaurant where eight ounces of Beluga caviar costs £2,490. In 2009 Mr. Bundred paid £659.76 for two dinners at Quirinale an expensive restaurant near the Commons. This is going on all the time and the list is endless. These kind of goings on are reported in the media, but if these people had an ounce of morals they wouldn't dream of doing it but more importantly if it was coming out of their own pockets they would think twice, or would they probable not because they could afford it out of their obscene salaries. A spokes person for the Audit Commission said that like many public bodies across government and the public sector brings stakeholders together to discuss their respective plans and issues. Why can't they discuss these issues in their offices? Why does it have to be over a fancy expensive meal? The cost of running the commission has risen from £93 million in 1997, to more than £200 million. Why is the government taking so long to save money. Close this quango down now and we have an instant saving straight away. Then we have well paid people living in subsidised council housing, some people earning upwards of £100,000 whilst we have people looking for council houses on low incomes. Yet we had former Labour Health Minister Frank Dobson living in a council house when he was a cabinet minister and even today we have Bob Crow leader of the RMT who earns £145,000 a year including pension and expenses still lives in a council house. Some of these high earners are paying between £97/£110 a week for these houses. What chance has the public of getting any kind of justice or fair play with the attitude of these senior people. Is it any wonder that these are the kind of people who want to bring in more legislation to support super injunctions so that a free press can't bring these kinds of abuse of our money to the wider population. So we do not want parliament to discuss or try to implement laws over freedom of speech and the freedom of the press because there are many sitting in the Commons and the Lords and other public institutions who want to keep these increasing abuses secret. Just like the Suffolk County Council Chief Executive who earns £218,592, and stops in a hotel costing £205 a night whilst at a conference meeting whilst senior councillors were at a hotel costing £85 a night. A council spokes person said that he was unable to say why Mrs Hill had been allowed to stay in a more expensive hotel room than the councillors. I can tell him why he came out with that statement he is either scared of loosing his job for telling the truth, and she thinks that she is better than the councillors. Again these are the kinds of people who are now loosing touch with reality as their perks and salaries increase. If people want to know more about the abuse that is going on in this country try reading The Silent State by Heather Brooke, she was the journalist who spent five years getting to the bottom of the MP's expenses scandal before it broke in The Daily Telegraph. This country needs even more journalists like her and papers like the Telegraph or we will all end up like the proverbial mushroom.
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