On the release of the expenses information

The man who released the information says:

“We’ve reached a stage in society where they want to know everything about us – I think we’re entitled to know about them.”

That’s an argument I find it very difficult to disagree with.

And they’re making a habit of being treated differently than the rest of us too. The 2003 Income Tax Act exempts MPs specifically (but not local councillors) from the Inland Revenue rules that expenses must be solely to do with the pursuit of one’s job. And the Childrens’ Database will be so secure that the children of MPs will not be on it.

I don’t know about you but I regard it as one of the basics, that if a law is good enough that we must obey it then so must it be good enough that those who made the law should obey it.