The ThunderDragon: By April

05 February 2008

By April

Why do MPs have until April 1 to declare details of family members they employ? Why do they need so long? Why shouldn't they have to declare them by the end of February? Next Friday? Or even, why not this Friday?

It's not like MPs either employ that many people or have so many relatives that it would take three months to list them all. MPs should know who of their employees are family members and how much they are paying them. It's not like I object to MPs employing family members, just that they should have to declare them, and immediately.

There is no excuse for MPs not to declare how many - and who - of their relatives they employ right away. Any who wait until the deadline to make their declaration should be viewed with great suspicion by the electorate.

The only reason I can think of to pick April 1 as the deadline is to thumb their noses at us Fools.

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