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What hypocrites.
If a women, trying to make ends meet, happened to top up her welfare, by a few pounds, by cleaning each week, she would be prosecuted.
Yet, here we have MP's, senior one's, essentially defrauding the public purse out of a vast amount of money, for some often rather dubious things, and yet, we are told that this is somehow different, and that everything is 'above board'.
If it is so, then it is only so as they have made it so.
The modern politician fills me with contempt.
They have become the modern day Kings and Queens of old.
Rather than be voted in to serve the nation, as intended, they now assume the mantlel of people who look after their own interests, at the expense of those that voted for them.
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The public's view of MPs has been badly damaged by a series of revelations about expenses claims, a new survey has revealed.
Mrs Follett and her husband Ken Follett, who is a best-selling author
According to the latest allegations, Tourism minister Barbara Follett claimed more than £25,000 for security patrols outside her London home because she did not feel safe there.
It is the latest in a series of damaging revelations about MPs' expenses published by The Daily Telegraph.
And the public are unimpressed, with 89% of those quizzed by ICM for the News of the World warning that the reputation of parliament was being tarnished.
In addition, 91% called for uncensored expenses records to be published in full immediately.
The MPs are ready to fight back, and the most recent disclosures have brought a threat of legal action from immigration minister Phil Woolas.
He has described suggestions that he used parliamentary allowances to buy clothes for his wife, nappies and comics as "disgusting".
For the first time they also involve a senior Tory figure, shadow climate change minister Greg Barker.
The Bexhill and Battle MP - a close ally of David Cameron - is said to have made £320,000 after buying a flat with the help of taxpayers' money and selling it 27 months later.
Exasperated Commons officials have called in Scotland Yard to investigate the leaking of the details of expenses claims.
On Friday Gordon Brown was forced to defend paying thousands of pounds for a cleaner at his London flat to his brother.
The latest Telegraph story focuses heavily on Mrs Follett, who is among the wealthiest MPs in Westminster.
Her husband Ken Follett is a best-selling author who earns £13m a year, according to Forbes magazine.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/MPs-Expenses-Tourism-Minister-Barbara-Follett-Claimed-Over-25K-For-Security-Patrols---Report/Article/200905215278386?lpos=Politics_News_Your_Way_Region_3&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15278386_MPs_Expenses%3A_Tourism_Minister_Barbara_Follett_Claimed_Over_%3F25K_For_Security_Patrols_-_Report
If a women, trying to make ends meet, happened to top up her welfare, by a few pounds, by cleaning each week, she would be prosecuted.
Yet, here we have MP's, senior one's, essentially defrauding the public purse out of a vast amount of money, for some often rather dubious things, and yet, we are told that this is somehow different, and that everything is 'above board'.
If it is so, then it is only so as they have made it so.
The modern politician fills me with contempt.
They have become the modern day Kings and Queens of old.
Rather than be voted in to serve the nation, as intended, they now assume the mantlel of people who look after their own interests, at the expense of those that voted for them.
Story
The public's view of MPs has been badly damaged by a series of revelations about expenses claims, a new survey has revealed.
Mrs Follett and her husband Ken Follett, who is a best-selling author
According to the latest allegations, Tourism minister Barbara Follett claimed more than £25,000 for security patrols outside her London home because she did not feel safe there.
It is the latest in a series of damaging revelations about MPs' expenses published by The Daily Telegraph.
And the public are unimpressed, with 89% of those quizzed by ICM for the News of the World warning that the reputation of parliament was being tarnished.
In addition, 91% called for uncensored expenses records to be published in full immediately.
The MPs are ready to fight back, and the most recent disclosures have brought a threat of legal action from immigration minister Phil Woolas.
He has described suggestions that he used parliamentary allowances to buy clothes for his wife, nappies and comics as "disgusting".
For the first time they also involve a senior Tory figure, shadow climate change minister Greg Barker.
The Bexhill and Battle MP - a close ally of David Cameron - is said to have made £320,000 after buying a flat with the help of taxpayers' money and selling it 27 months later.
Exasperated Commons officials have called in Scotland Yard to investigate the leaking of the details of expenses claims.
On Friday Gordon Brown was forced to defend paying thousands of pounds for a cleaner at his London flat to his brother.
The latest Telegraph story focuses heavily on Mrs Follett, who is among the wealthiest MPs in Westminster.
Her husband Ken Follett is a best-selling author who earns £13m a year, according to Forbes magazine.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/MPs-Expenses-Tourism-Minister-Barbara-Follett-Claimed-Over-25K-For-Security-Patrols---Report/Article/200905215278386?lpos=Politics_News_Your_Way_Region_3&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15278386_MPs_Expenses%3A_Tourism_Minister_Barbara_Follett_Claimed_Over_%3F25K_For_Security_Patrols_-_Report
