Expenses scandal reprised

• howard mcsweeney1

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  20 October 2012     17:38196893
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  can 't keep a good honourable member down for long.
  
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/9619022/Expenses-scandal-27-MPs-let-one-home-and-claim-for-another.html
• Guest 696

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  20 October 2012     22:43196925
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  Just voted YES, which is over 98%.
  This is another taxpayers' money scam.
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  21 October 2012     10:54196973
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  at least the chancellor tried to do the decent thing and get out of paying for first class travel.
  
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9623075/The-gravy-train-185-MPs-travel-first-class-and-24-claim-for-club-class-flights.html
• Jan Higgins

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  21 October 2012     13:29197003
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  I can understand the need for first class if they are working on the journey but if they are just sitting on their fat backsides gazing out of the window they can rough it with the rest of us. If they have to stand even better for over an hour like I had to on a train from Banbury to London so much the better.
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• Keith Sansum1

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  21 October 2012     18:59197062
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  these guys are not above the rest
  
  and its time to call it all in
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• Guest 693

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  22 October 2012     09:53197125
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  I think it all goes to show that the only remorse the honourable members truly felt last time around was that they got caught with their grubby little hands in the till. They can't use the excuses wheeled out last time and it's time that the punishment meted out for fiddling the coffers was changed so they lost their seat and faced the long arm of the law.
  
  Is it any wonder the City is so damned corrupt when the role models they should look up to are as bent as they are?
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  22 October 2012     10:51197132
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  one way out of this second home rip off would be to house honourable members in the olympic village complex a short tube ride away from the commons.
  
  anything good enough for the cream of the world's athetes is good enough for them.
• Guest 716

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  22 October 2012     14:54197169
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  # 6 ...spot on....# 7.....the homeless deserve a home before these elite greedy pigs do..........
• Guest 693

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  23 October 2012     14:52197291
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  This seems to have been kept very low under the radar; the Jimmy Savile scandal seems to have created a rather timely smoke screen for those involved.
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• Keith Sansum1

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  23 October 2012     18:32197329
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  The who;e system needs reviewing and sorting it can't go on
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