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  There is a lot of truth in what you are saying there Howard.
  
  We must, however, also remember that there are 646 MPs and it is still only a tiny minority who have been fingered for abuses. That is not to suggest that all the rest are whiter than white, I suspect that under the system they work under very few will emerge clean as a whistle, if any. That does not mean they are all crooks though. I still believe that there is a majority of essentially decent people in Parliament, accross all Parties, even if we can justifyable question aspects of their expenses.
  
  The problem is of course that power does corrupt even the most well meaning of people. Parliament is a reflection of our society as a whole, the good, bad and ugly. What this scandal has shown is that there must be massive reform and the worse of the abusers should be punished. There must be no room for future generations of Parliamentarians to rob the taxpayers in this way.

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