MPs Expenses Pig Trough Claims

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Tory party leader David Cameron is not a happy bunny - he seems to have just discovered that Tory MPs have been abusing the expenses system and has decided to take action.

He said the conduct of some Tory MPs was "out of order" and added "I am angry about what has happened. It is out of order and some of it is abuse of taxpayers' money and I am going to deal with it."

Everyboy has known for years that MPs have been helping themselves to public money because they can and they even passed the rules needed to make sure that they could, now they seem to want to claim that the rules are all wrong and a terrible mistake.

Gordon Brown apologized yesterday about MPs expenses , but what for? He knew what was going on and was never bothered by it until the rest of us found out the gory details. Although the gory details were available long ago as can be seen from this blog post a year ago - Gordon Brown's Expenses - where we see clearly what Gordon Brown himself was claiming for - notably £15 for light bulbs ! This is a man who earns £190,000 a year as Prime Minister, but who thinks that he also needs to claim for food and light bulbs. The rest of us pay for our food from what we earn.

The speaker of the House of Commons - Michael Martin, is under pressure to resign after his outrageous comments in Parliament yesterday, criticizing Kate Hoey and others for talking to the press instead of protecting MPs. He called in the police to investigate how the public had got hold of the information on MPs expenses. Tomorrow we will hopefully see a vote of no confidence in Michael Martin - a very unusual step as the Speaker is usually considered to be above retribution.

Michael Martin however is a highly influential individual within the House of Commons as he is Chairman of a number of committees and in particular is directly responsible for the MPs expenses system.

It is claimed he spent hundreds of thousands of pounds of our money trying to prevent MPs expenses claims being made public.

MPs themselves seem to have adopted the attitude of blaming the system, as if they were somehow victims and had no control over what expenses they claimed for - a bit like Homer Simpson with doughnuts. But that's politicians for you.
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