Half the workload-half the cost-at least that's the theory

Do read David Craig's article over at First Post this morning.

According to David our MP's cost us £1m a day,their workload has halved and they are claiming double their expenses.

Only half the work I hear you ask? Well apparently

When this Government swept to power in May 1997, less than half our legislation was initiated and authored in the EU. By 2001 this had reached 55 per cent and, according to an answer given in 2007 in the German parliament (the UK Government has refused to provide the same information), 84 per cent of their legislation now comes directly from the EU.

and

In the last five years alone, the amount

The number of staff employed to help our MPs do less and less work has gone up to over 2,500of money our MPs have taken in salaries and expenses has gone up by a satisfying (for them) 64 per cent, from less than £100m in 2001–02 to over £155m in 2006–07, while the number of expense claims submitted by MPs has almost doubled from just over 30,000 a year to close to 60,000