.. and still I’m loving every minute of it.
The details of “bullying” and “intimidating” behaviour towards IPSA workers and volunteers, published by the watchdog in response to Freedom of Information requests, are likely to heighten fears that many MPs have still not accepted the changes made to their expenses system since its widespread abuse was disclosed by The Daily Telegraph more than a year ago.
One thing is for sure. Every time any new legislation is proposed, it’ll be measured by the IPSA yardstick, to see if we’re going to be treated in the way they themselves so despise.
Given how completely indistinct this new bunch are from the old bunch, it’s only a matter of time.
At least the message seems to have sunk in with tired old has-been Tom Harris.
IPSA was born out of panic. It is proof positive that whatever the failings of a headless chicken, it can at least piece together legislation when it’s joined by 649 other headless chickens.
The worst possible time to legislate is in the middle of a crisis; the worst people to draft that legislation are the very same individuals whose behaviour has caused that crisis in the first place.
MPs do not deserve any sympathy for the mess in which we now find ourselves. Nor will we receive it. The mess is entirely of our own making and it is up to us to sort it out. IPSA was an expensive and unnecessary mistake. You should not compound your own mistakes by repeating them or by refusing to admit it was a mistake in the first place.
I wonder when it’ll dawn on the rest of them, if ever.
AJ
Al Jahom's Final Word 
Don’t they have one of those signs up that says: ” Our staff are entitled to carry out their duties without fear. Any threatening or abusive behaviour will result in Security Staff being called and may result in Prosecution.”
I see them in every NHS or Council building I’ve ever been in.
I believe they do, yes…
The irony is delicious.