How do they sleep at night?

A WORKING family buys its own furniture. It must pay for a carpet, a bed, a table to eat from. A family organises its budget to make a home, as part of the other monthly expenses it has to meet.

That’s how the world works – you pay your way.

For the second time in recent weeks, The Sunday Post reveals expense claims made by taxpayer-funded employees that will sound outrageous to an ordinary working man or woman.

Relocation expenses will be paid when attracting a top man to a difficult job. The package must be attractive to get the right person.

If a package was required to get Ron Smith to take on a challenging job at Prestwick Airport, then so be it. Legal fees and moving costs would have to be included.

But this is taxpayers’ money. Every penny should be a prisoner. The people who sign off these expenses should scrutinise every line of every expenses claim.

They should think about how it looks to the people who ultimately sign the cheques.

Our elected officials should have a close eye on this. They should be angry, they should have been asking if this was really necessary.

Because signing off this much of our money makes them look like they have lost touch with what matters to taxpayers.

They agreed to £1400 for a bed? How do these people sleep at night?