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Originally Posted by ToffeeGuy
Economic policies, which until the crash of 2008, the Tories were supporting as well and promising to match Labours spending commitments. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. The credit and house price boom was started by the Tories in the 80s.
Weren't some Tories convicted of fiddling expenses as well?
For many years, decades even, the ruling governments seemed nervous to award pay increases to MPs due to the possible backlash by the public even though these increases would have been in line with other responsible jobs in both the public and private sectors. Therefore, it may be the case that many MPs saw expenses as a way of topping up their salaries to a level which they saw as the equivalent of what they could have got for doing a similar responsible job in the public/private sector. This seem to be a tacit belief within the House of Commons for years before the scandal broke.
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Unlike yourself, my views aren't skewed by political blindness.
All mainstream political parties are all so centralist, peopled as they are by Oxbridge careerist politicans, you'd need a fish slice to separate any of them.
To try and justify the illegal falsifying of expenses accounts, as a way of paying themselves a pay increase, for fear of a public backlash, is one of the most stupid things ever to be posted on this forum.
M.P.'s fought tooth and nail for their expenses to remain secret, because of 'security issues'.
If they couldn't survive on sixty odd grand per year, they should look for another job.
Stealing is wrong, and most were lucky that they escaped a prison sentence.