A Tory MP has resigned from the Parliamentary watchdog which checks on MP’s expenses – because of his expenses.
Geoffrey Cox is MP for Torridge and West Devon. What caught my attention about this story was not the failure to declare income in the register of interests. He forgot. He missed the deadline. Whatever the excuse, I am not interested.
What interested me was the report that he earned £325,000 for 500 hours of work. Or £650 per hour.
I don’t know how he does it – find a spare 500 hours out of his very busy schedule to make time to earn a third of a million pounds. 500 hours when all his bleating colleagues are working their fingers to stumps in the interests of their constituents, they tell us.
Oh yes, it is tough being a parliamentarian.