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Gordon Brown has said "mistakes" were made by MPs in their use of House of Commons expenses.
How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
They are still all coming up with this line that "the system" needs changed. Hazel Blears is the worst, with her egregious claims, a simple defence that it is all within the rules, and then a brazen attempt to portray herself as someone rushing to the rescue to change the system.
Give us a break. You could have started by just not claiming so much. The problem is not the rules, it is being governed by people who can not tell the difference between right and wrong.
I wonder if some of the media will follow up on this blog entry?
Why did the The Clerk - Malcolm Jack allow his team to 'approve' these outrageous claims in the first place when anyone with two brain cells to rub together would say NO!!!
Perhaps it was his own troughing to the tune of £100k that persuaded him that 'it was the right thing to do'?
How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
Hazel Blears wasn't she the one who thinks spending £250 on a toilet seat is exceptable?
I think that we, their employers, should pay every last penny of the cost of their London houses. Then when they leave parliament, we keep the house. And the bathroom fittings and all.
I think that we, their employers, should pay every last penny of the cost of their London houses. Then when they leave parliament, we keep the house. And the bathroom fittings and all.
I'll have the tennis court and you can have the loo seat expat.
Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone
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