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Article: MPs should let us decide if they have done wrong
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- Lincolnshire Echo
- Article date:
- May 28, 2009
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I Must comment on your item (Echo, May 16) about five of the
region's MPs saying they've done nothing wrong
Douglas Hogg's expenditure claims seem such a blatant abuse of
the Green Book rules that it would amaze me if his constituents
didn't throw him out.
But by giving themselves outrageous expense and allowance
arrangements and then judging themselves against rules that they
made in the first place, there can be little surprise that the
public is outraged.
The rules allowed MPs to take liberties with public money.
So their initial collective mistake was in setting down 'rules'
that were so loosely cast and enforced that, when coupled with
shocking self-indulgence and self-importance, ...