It's like an award scheme.
If you become an MP your reward is a salary and bung-pot, people bung money in regardless and if you don't spend it......
If you get bumped up to EU level the pot gains more and deeper options.
I say this having an extended family member who went through it. She was deeply dismissive of it and described it (along with several other perks) as licenced bribery pretending to be an incentive. I do not intend this to slur all of the people involved but the fact that the public purse is being provided with a Brave New World option and no one seems to care is overdue for review.
Again, do they bring glory upon themselves or their profession?
I had 500,000 BA miles from SFO-LHR for three years and most of it was not in first or business. I could claim back exactly what I spent and no more. Then again maybe that was because I was honest.
