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Old 05-06-2009, 23:50   #281
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Re: £10,000 offered to leak MP's expenses

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Originally Posted by Mancie View Post
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.
Winnie isn't one of my political heroes. So I don't care if he's spinning or not.

You're wrong.

It's MPs who control and set their expenses, and it was MPs who blocked every attempt for those expenses being made public.

Why?

Because they knew there'd be an angry public outcry.
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