How MPs deal with their financial matters and running their offices was in the news today, and something grabbed me. Some member of the government was explaining that currently MPs run their own offices, employ their own staff etc. As he put it, it's rather like they run them like individual small businesses. He felt that if the running of MPs' offices were instead centralised, this would achieve the professionalism and efficiency that people expect from modern Human Resources practices.
It seems to me that he completely misunderstands small businesses. (Or perhaps he misunderstands big businesses.) Small businesses are fantastic. They're run on passion and commitment and individuality and personality. People like to interact with them. They feel intimate, in contrast to the perceived soullessness of monolithic big businesses. They're in touch with their locality - they're a part of it.
Isn't that what the constituency office of a politician - someone who's been elected by the community to represent and serve it - should be like?
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