'Baroness Uddin should repay £125,349 "to which she was not entitled" - saying claims were "made wrongly and in bad faith" - and be suspended until the end of the current parliamentary session, around Easter 2012. The report suggested she did not have the means to repay the money.' BBC Online 18/10/10
The fact that this thief can get away with it sticks in all the craw of all decent folk. All this guff Osborne keeps parroting about 'benefit fraud' pales into insignificance against the daylight robbery carried on 'legally' by our so called leaders. Whether it be tax avoidance or Expenses fiddles - it stinks. And as the Despatches programme (Channel 4 18/10/10) made very clear, tax avoidance thrives at the heart of the Tory party, whether it be Cabinet Ministers or Tory donors. A Cabinet Minister claiming millions in dividends from his company does not even have to declare it in his interest record.
All within the rules but without a vestige of morality. Or credibility.
It all seriously undermines the current mantra, "We're all in this together."
A 'Benefit Fraudster' walking off with over £100,000 would expect to go to jail. A Peer of the Realm? Suspension from the House of Lords! Big deal. How about, 'Stripped of Peerage' - Charged - and if proved guilty, thrown in jail' Alongside the other two sleazeball peers recommended for suspension.
And as for those egregious MP's who are fighting every inch of the way to avoid their day in court…….
Nothing like a few show trials to concentrate minds.
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