I see from the Sunday Times today that Neil and Glenys Kinnock are doing very well out of state handouts. Glenys Kinnock collects a teacher's pension, a Brussels pension worth £46,000 pa, will be entitled to a further £19,750 pa related to her service as an MEP. Gordon Brown has just handed her an income of £83,375 for this coming year and she will be entitled to a pension based upon that. And to crown this little perk (to coin a phrase) she will be able to trough for years to come on the basis of her Lords' membership.
Neil Kinnock receives pensions from his service as MP and EU Comissioner totalling £112,000 and is also a Lord with all the additional benefits that that entails.
The Sunday Times article goes on to detail what some might consider excessive use of allowances and expenses and their habit of running this tax-funded enterprise as a family business.
Should I draw some comfort from the fact that people who have spent a lifetime preaching the benefits of state welfare should be among its primary recipients?
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