Lib Dems Too Grand To Pound The Pavements?
Lib Dem Chief Whif Paul Burstow has spent our money sending politically partisan newsletters to his constituents attacking his rivals. That is completely inappropriate behaviour.
If Paul Burstow wants to send his newsletters by post, that’s not a problem - but he should pay for the postage and the stationery. If he’s too important to pound the pavement like the rest of us, that’s not a problem - but we shouldn’t be paying for his laziness.
His story that it was “a simple administrative error which shouldn’t have happened and won’t happen again” makes no sense considering the size of the cost to our pockets - £1,500. At the current price of 36p for a 1st class stamp, that makes it more than 4,100 letters, sent between January 2007 and June this year. Quite how that is a “simple administrative error”, I don’t know. In fact, that’s rather a large one.
Burstow has offered to repay the £1,500 postage costs, which is all well and good. However, had the matter not been complained about I have no doubt that he would have just carried on doing it.
Unless it is Lib Dem policy to send politically partisan newsletters to constituents payed for by the taxpayer, Burstow can hardly justify maintaining his position as Chief Whip.
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