On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:43:02 GMT, Palindrome wrote:
>I suspect that few are stupid enough to do anything provably unlawful.
The critical word there is "provable". As they're allowed to submit
substantial expense claims without receipts, there's no way of proving
that a particular claim is entirely fictitious.
>For me, it seems obvious that, if politicians are proven to be as
>susceptible to expoiting the system as anyone else - they should have
>the same rules as everyone else.
Ah, but MPs claim that they're "honourable" and a cut above mere
mortals. Indeed, I heard an MP colleague of Derek Conway blustering
on the Today programme that Conway was an honorouble man of
unimpeachable integrity and would never do anything underhand.
No, I don't believe it, either.
Mike.
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