[Mancie]

Originally Posted by garinda

Nah, doesn't wash.

I'll carry on milking the system (that we created, and tried to prevent everyone knowing the details about), because they're doing it too.

If I'm to elect someone to represent me, and for them to then vote on moral and legal issues on my behalf, I expect some degree of integrity, honesty, and at least an understanding of fair play.

Most of my political heros will be spinning in their graves at this shower of career charlatans.

...and by the way, claiming for expenses on mortgages that have been paid off, isn't 'playing within the rules'. It's fraud, and the police should be called to investigate, just as they would be if it had been one of us lesser mortals that had 'forgotten' we shouldn't be claiming money from the public purse for it.

ah yes..but I don't suppose the greatest MP and leader of this country in wartime Winston Churchill paid for his own whiskey!..I wouldn't expect him too. seems to me that civil servants control expenses and if you get a job you are told what you can claim for and that is the bottom line..it does make MP's look stupid.