Buy your own Blackberry, you freeloader

Apparently a £60,000+ salary and £100,000 expenses is not enough for some MPs, Sharon Hodgson (a Labour MP) has "has called for handheld Blackberry computers to be made available - for free - to herself and everyone else with a Commons seat. "

Go and buy one yourself from your earned and taxed income, like a normal human being. You are a high earner, use some of that money for equipment that you want to use.

Oh I am sorry, you're whinge isn't that the taxpayer isn't buying you a PDA so you can keep in contact with your friends and family whilst working, it is in fact that you don't like the free PDA that you have been given! It seems that "the Commons Commission, which oversees the provision of services to the House, said its present set-up was "incompatible" with Blackberry devices." as it was put out to tender five years ago when "At the time, none of the contractors which submitted bids offered a service for Blackberry computers..."In the years since then, the House has gone on to invest a good deal of time and money supporting Microsoft-based handheld devices," he said. "Blackberry operates on a completely different system which would not be compatible with the infrastructure we've developed.""


If I got a job with a large corporation that used Microsoft PDS technology and then called for the system to be changed because I had been "an avid Blackberry user since 2005" and because " I have to say that the PDA I have received... is not in the same league as a Blackberry, in my opinion.", unless I was the new Director of Information Technology (or similar) I think my opinions would not be taken too seriously.


Sharon Hodgson, stop whinging and get on with your job of representing your constituents to the best of your abilities, however limited they may be. If you want a Blackberry and it can be made to work with the House of Commons systems then buy it yourself; if it can't be made to work then tough shit, use the FREE PDA that you have been supplied with and stop moaning.