Legge Report due out this week
“Parliamentary sources said the report would be “explosive” and that it would attack in the strongest possible terms the discredited expenses system — which is to be completely overhauled — the Commons Fees Office, which approved payments, and MPs themselves.
However, Sir Thomas’s findings risk causing a further “cover-up” storm when they are released because only the briefest details of the MPs’ appeals process will be made known. No information will be released about the reasons given by MPs for appealing to Sir Paul Kennedy, the former judge appointed to investigate their protests, or whether their appeals were deemed justified or not." (My emphasis)
Sunday Telegraph 31/01/2010
If there was a way to make this situation worse and for it to go on and on until the election then you can be sure that our egregious MP's would find it. After all, they are doing all they can to keep the issue bubbling.
And that is not all. There are about 8 MPs who left Parliament in 2005 who have questions to answer about their claims but they have not replied to any of the letters sent by Legge. Time for a few warrants and names shamed.
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