Public sector must provide value for money

The most striking thing about the expenses crisis is what it tells us about the mindset of  the people who sit in the House of Commons.

They see the taxpayer as a bottomless source of cash. They spend, we pay.

If this is how they conduct their personal affairs why should we suppose that the rest of the public sector is any different.

What is needed is a complete change of mindset. We need a government obsessed with value for money and cutting public spending.

Frugality in the highest echelons
In British history, I can only think of three leaders who had a genuinely frugal approach to government: Henry V11, who left a Treasury stuffed with gold to his son; William Gladstone who believed in leaving the money the people and Maggie Thatcher with her much sneered at but much missed housewife’s approach to the national budget.

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