Tom Gordon: Golden goodbye racket is now tarnishing Holyrood
A committee of MSPs was set up in early 2008, which decided broadly to shadow what Westminster did. Its report was debated in less than half an hour in June 2008 by five MSPs who chummily commended its “reasonable and affordable” ideas. Their recommendations became the 2009 SPP Act, which MSPs passed unanimously in January that year. Four months later, the Westminster expenses scandal exploded. Thanks to a massive data leak to the Telegraph, MPs’ perks provoked a national outcry. Cash-filled soft landings were no longer the done thing. A new era had arrived. But not at Holyroo...
Source: heraldscotland.com
