Here’s another expenses scandal – with the minister who chokes off our benefits
Here’s another expenses scandal – with the minister who chokes off our benefits caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
Yes, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall – who insisted that the public purse could not afford to pay for your granny to heat her home, has been having her own residence warmed at the public expense, with the bill coming to thousands of pounds more than any pensioner has to pay.
Before we go on, let’s not blow this out of proportion: Kendall is within her legal rights to claim the £3,810 cost of heating her £4 million, four-bedroom home (between April 2023 and July this year) as a legitimate expense. The problem is that it shows a moral bankruptcy that is nothing less than monumental.
The average cost was £352 per month – the same as the Winter Fuel Payments she has taken from 14 pensioners.
This behaviour prompts us to ask a perfectly reasonable question: how can Kendall, who lives in a mansion and earns £158,851 from the public purse as a government minister, possibly justify claiming nearly £4,000 for heating when she insists that the same public purse cannot afford to pay a £300 winter fuel payment to a senior citizen in a poorly-insulated, non-centrally-heated flat who receives a pension of only £11,375 per year.
The hypocrisy is so shocking that she should have been out of the door of Caxton House before I finished typing this article, let alone you reading it – without letting it hit her bloated ex-ministerial backside on the way out.
But of course we know she won’t do the decent thing. Will she?
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