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Want to know if your MP is fiddling expenses?
AN ENTERPRISING DEVELOPER OUTFIT called Satosoft has launched an Iphone app that lets you check up on what expenses your local MP is claiming.
Over the course of last year a major furore erupted when it was revealed that many MPs were making a lot of expense claims that, while mostly within the letter of the law, clearly showed the public servants milking the system for everything they could get.
In a time when the average Joe has been struggling to make ends meet, seeing the person who is supposed to be representing your best interests claiming the cost of having his moat cleaned caused a certain amount of ire amongst the general community.
The scandal has largely died down, but still pops up from time to time and is still a particularly sensitive subject for many.
"MPs will be dreading this application which will mean that the information superhighway delivers angry constituents straight to their door," said Graham French, the founder of Satosoft.
According to French, the app provides up to date expense details of every Member of Parliament as well as their email address and direct phone number.
"Six hundred and forty five MPs' expenses condensed in an easy to read format, and then direct contact to voice your views about how they are spending your hard earned cash - the newspapers have done their job in bringing this subject into the open, but we thought of this application because so many people want to find out more details on their MP but it's not easy," he said.
With the election battle now underway, if it proves successful this app could be a thorn in the side for politicians trying to garner support from constituents. The ones who aren't retiring from public life due to the expenses scandal, anyway.
The MP Expenses app is available on the App Store now for £3.49. µ
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If an MP is not on the fiddle, he doesn't deserve to be there. Afterall, to keep the country on its toes, you need the muck stirrers, the crooked and the saviours. Who needs a chicken when evil is all around. Understand, comprehend and then realise that saviours are there to gather worshippers and to achieve that goal, there need to be demons for fingering out. That is what The Coming Of Cameron and The Resurrection Of Brown really means with the former being the deadlier/deadliest. This joker needs extreme caution because he stops for no one, not even his master. Afterall, when he fails, he won't be left holding the baby, would he, but should he succeed, many will fail - "for the sake of the country", he said, meaning "his" country.
So, where are the bent MPs? They are within the voters' desire, an MP being merely the reflection of the fence-sitters who'll go with the Devil should this Joker promises the Earth, which according to The Bible, He did to one called, Jesus Christ. And guess what Jesus said to the Joker? He relied, "Man does not live by bread alone" - which was what Brown was trying to say but for fear of maligning the greedy and the fearful - those fearful of greedy MPs and greedy for their demands for this and that. Better the devil you know than the saint you don't, Saint Cameron being one such joker. With the exception of a handful who'll go with their conscience and not so much with their "constituency", MPs are merely greedy-cum-fearful worshippers-cum-saviours. They are merely a reflection of the ills and possibilities within the nation. Beware that the one who "saves" will not stop even when destruction looms for he always comes first - his saviourship. There's nothing new when it comes to old rope for new money. There's only the lesson which was never learnt - by the know-it-all know-nuffings, oka the naïve, the uninitiated and the addicted.
So the author of this app needs his moat cleaned I suppose? Why the high price of 3.49 for this?
But yeah, we need a few apps like this here in the US.
Please tell me that app will work across the pond in Canada and for the US of A viewers. If I can get more political this easy then I just might buy an Iphone.
An app worth having .. that is if the eyePhone is actually worth having..
.. tho I use my phone to make calls and send txts sometimes .. which last time I checked was not in top 10 things ithing does. .. hehe