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Post by MasterSnit on Jun 17, 2009 16:20:02 GMT -5
I don't know if this is getting much coverage in the U.S., but over here in the UK our MP's are dropping like flies and being outed as the fraudulent, gelatinous, parasitic tapeworms that they really are. Many of them have been busted for using tax payers' money to basically spend in any way that they choose. Some have been using it to buy or rent houses, while others have been taking our money to buy themselves things like chocolate bars, duck houses and toilet seats. Although it really is disgusting that the people who are supposed to be working for us citizens are basically robbing us, I can't help but be amused by it. Whenever the latest busted MP is outed, they are on TV squirming and still trying to convince that they are innocent.
Do you guys have any thoughts on this? I was never shocked by it in the first place but it has made me scoff at the professional liars running out of excuses and making fools of themselves.
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Post by Snitskyman2016 on Jun 17, 2009 19:54:09 GMT -5
When they do that in the USA they get re-elected for another 40 years.
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Post by Velkontés on Jun 17, 2009 21:36:45 GMT -5
Toilet seats, moats, chandaliers, chocolate biscuits.
49 MPs have constituencies in outer London. Some of them live within 20 miles of Parliament yet were claiming for 2nd homes.
I'm not surprised but what particularly annoyed me was when they all trotted out the same line: "it was all within the rules". Yes, the rules you yourselves wrote and administered.
And as long as what you do conforms to the letter of the law, then you've got a moral clean slate to do whatever the fuck you want. Great example to be setting!
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Post by MasterSnit on Jun 18, 2009 15:34:06 GMT -5
There were MPs, a year or so ago, who tried to get a law through that would keep all their expenses secret and not available to the public at all. I imagine if that had went through we'd get getting the shaft big-time until the end of days.
I did find it funny that the MP who claimed for the toilet seat was John Prescott. I bet he often shatters toilet seats with his big fat arse.
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