Too late for Rodney

So Mr Hide apolagised this weekend, for his Official and Un Official International Jaunt with his much younger Girl Friend:

I am always amused when people apolagize after the fact: Why did you do it anyway, the whole way you went about it seemed wrong from the start:

I guess its like putting a drink in fron of an alcoholic and saying dont drink it: Kind of:

Mr Harawira is also to say sorry to New Zealand in due course, probably tomorrow or Tuesday:

Ah Question Time: I cant wait: Phil Goff and the Left are going to Rip JK and the Nats apart.

Now it is time to start looking at restricting benefits given to Members, they already geta high salary and all their official transport is paid for surely that is enough:

In a company if there is to be any travel outside of the normal requirements, ie I normally work in Auckland, if the Company says oh by the way we are going to Christchurch next week for two days, then obviously they pay for flights, food and accomadation: And rightly so:

Lets say I have a job and we travel out of town alot, and even International every now and then: Obviously again my out bound travel arrangements are all meet: But that is not an invitation to start booking up the Company travel Card in any fashion I see fit:

Even if Mum and Dad own the airline, gosh they would be saying, oh it would be great if you paid, or didnt actually fly with us becasue we have people called paying customers who actually pay: Maybe you could do that Pay, with I dont know that large Salary that goes into your bank account each week:

Being a MP is State Welfare to the extreme, it is overly excessive and un necessary, what kind of rule is a 90% Subsidy on all Flights for you and your partner?

No wonder an MP is able to mass a small fortune very quickly becasue they rarely have to pay for anything and everything is subsidised, they even have their own Cafe which again is subsidised.

And lastly the one thing I would hate to see is a rise in Salary and taking away in benefits: Thats not what needs to be done: Benefits should be taken away such as 90% Travel Subsidy and even the ridiculous Retirement Scheme, the rest of us have to put up with 4% So can they:

They also need a better system for managing their Logistics, Members shouldnt manage this, it should be done by one office, they should put in their requirements and thats it:

This would stop the likes of Roger Douglas being able to book a flight for him and his wife to London: That should never have been able to happen: