I can understand that a little bit more readily. You're in New York, a donor says, "I've got a place, stay there", you needed a place to stay anyway, so it kind of makes sense.
Whereas most people who need reading glasses buy them for themselves.
Clothing is tricky, to the extent a spouse gets added to the mix and you are expected to look a certain way. It is expected you can't turn up looking the same every time, so you need more clothes than normal people. But where is the line between an allowance and simply taking the mickey?
MPs aren't paid all that much here, or in Britain, or Australia, which is where their Prime Minister now finds himself in his own hole after the revelations he organised a bunch of free upgrades on Qantas by allegedly going directly to then-CEO Alan Joyce.
This was for personal travel for himself and his family. As Prime Minister you travel first class, if not on the Airforce jet, but your son travels like anyone else. Or they do unless Dad has been on the phone to the CEO.
How these people think this is normal I have no idea. How they think they will get away with it is beyond me.
Public life these days is transparent. You can't do anything without a snitch, or a leak, or a WhatsApp going astray.
Is it a Labour thing? A left-wing thing?
How does Starmer and Albanese explain freebies you and I would never get?
How do they defend freebies from an already exulted position?
Back here Luxon got a bagging for doing nothing wrong, apart from being successful enough to own a few houses. What would we have done if he had been upgrading himself, or accepting free suits and Amanda turns up in new eyewear paid for by party supporters?
Public service once meant serving the public, not using your position to upgrade yourself, whether for aviation or sartorially.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
MPs aren't paid all that much here, or in Britain, or Australia, which is where their Prime Minister now finds himself in his own hole after the revelations he organised a bunch of free upgrades on Qantas by allegedly going directly to then-CEO Alan Joyce.
This was for personal travel for himself and his family. As Prime Minister you travel first class, if not on the Airforce jet, but your son travels like anyone else. Or they do unless Dad has been on the phone to the CEO.
How these people think this is normal I have no idea. How they think they will get away with it is beyond me.
Public life these days is transparent. You can't do anything without a snitch, or a leak, or a WhatsApp going astray.
Is it a Labour thing? A left-wing thing?
How does Starmer and Albanese explain freebies you and I would never get?
How do they defend freebies from an already exulted position?
Back here Luxon got a bagging for doing nothing wrong, apart from being successful enough to own a few houses. What would we have done if he had been upgrading himself, or accepting free suits and Amanda turns up in new eyewear paid for by party supporters?
Public service once meant serving the public, not using your position to upgrade yourself, whether for aviation or sartorially.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
3 comments:
When you prove your worth as a good little Zionist puppet.
UK Labour used a loophole to keep secret (until after the election) a £4 million payment from a fund in the Cayman Islands. That fund has heavily invested in arms manufacturing. The hypocrisy of the Left to utilse funds generated in a tax haven put squeal about property investors etc
What would you expect from an entitled socialist from a wealthy upbringing? Hypocrisy is not a concept that a man-child can ever easily comprehend.
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