Met a lawyer in the pub, as you do. With leaden inevitability the conversation turned to moats, manure and mortgages, and all the other things it transpires we have been providing for our parliamentarians. Mr Lawyer said he wasn't surprised at such goings on as our MPs are so badly paid. Figures started rolling through my head like the symbols in a one armed bandit, as I recalled that an MP gets about £65k per annum, and the most I've ever earned in a year stands in current values at about half that. And that rarely. Lawyer Man also blamed the system for allowing MPs to claim for expensive TVs and their wives' tampons. What about conscience over compliance, I asked. Well, he said, because they're so badly paid, conscience goes out of the window and the vast offers put forth within compliance are necessarily taken up, so that the MP can afford to live. And he seemed to think all this perfectly pukka.
Am I mad? Have I been so terribly naive all my life? While it would be foolish to believe (and I never have) that any bunch of individuals, elected representatives or whoever, would be free of villainy and self seeking, when too many have gone too far with their gluttony and deception, as now, it was amazing to learn from the supposedly learned upholder of our legal system, encountered in the boozer, that complete equanimity about such immorality seems perfectly okay to his suchlike. Inside out indeed.
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