Her husband has a perfect right to make a living.
More to the point, she is a very good friend of Saint Helena and Ascension Island. Like the “racist” Ann Winterton, who recently marched through London in the Saint Helenian cause and was photographed alongside numerous brown people.
It is time to start judging MPs on their opinions and their political records.
And to ask why Permanent Government figures like Michael Gove and James Purnell are treated so completely differently from those more immediately locatable in one party rather than another, their careers old-fashionedly capable of being affected by the outcome of a General Election.
Of course her husband has a perfect right to make a living. The question is of whether he should be paid with public money for something which is not a legitimate claimable expense.
ReplyDeleteMeg Munn's opinions on St Helena and Ascension Island have nothing to do with it.
Your claim that Michael Gove is a Permanent Government figure would be more plausible if he weren't a member of the Shadow Cabinet.
ReplyDeleteQueepur, you haven't even begun to understand.
ReplyDeleteUnfor, well, there we have it. Political opinions "have nothing to do with it".
Rather like when I posted on here about not taking the full salary, about which I'm still not happy - in principle I still believe in the rate for the job, and in any case this is entirely the wrong issue. But I want to win for the sake of the right issues. And I suppose that this is how to do it.
"At last", I was told, something to distinguish me from other candidates. At last? AT LAST! But there we are. Political opinions "have nothing to do with it". Doubtless because you are so used to the Permanent Government of people whose political opinions are all exactly the same.
They have everything to do with questions about whether Meg Munn is a good MP, or about whether, were I in her constituency, I should vote for her.
ReplyDeleteThey have nothing to do with questions about whether Meg Munn's husband should have been paid with public money for giving MPs tax advice.
It is possible that he should not have been paid with that money, and that Meg Munn is a good MP who deserves her constituents' support. In fact, that is very likely to be the case. I would certainly vote for Meg Munn if I lived in her constituency.