"Mike" wrote in message
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> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:43:02 GMT, Palindrome wrote:
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>>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.
Yea he is a crooked c*nt just like the rest of em.
>
> Mike.
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