The Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has said “Let us bar the gates of Westminster and stop MPs
leaving for their summer holidays until this crisis has been sorted out, and every nook and cranny of our political system reformed,”
He also said: "I'm setting out a plan of action to get all the changes we need delivered in just 100 days – making it possible for MPs to be sacked by their constituents, abolishing the House of Lords, getting corrupt money out of politics and changing the electoral system to give a voice to everyone."
No chance!
But the expenses fiasco rolls on- Sir John Butterfill a Tory grandee, has agreed to pay back more than £60,000 after it was disclosed he had paid no capital gains tax after making a £600,000 gain on the sale of his taxpayer-funded house.
Julie Kirkbride the backbencher, who used taxpayers’ money to fund a £50,000 extension to her constituency flat so that her brother and son could live in it, said the furore over MPs' expenses would put working mothers off politics.
She is helping the feminist cause by refusing to face public meeting over her expenses, in a radio interview, she said it never crossed her mind that she was doing anything wrong by claiming taxpayers' money to part-fund the extension.
She insisted she wanted to remain the party's candidate, but said that the decision was in the hands of her local Conservative Association.
Miss Kirkbride told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I understand people are angry about the way MPs' expenses operate, it is very hard to defend and I can understand why questions are being raised.”
Yeah right!
“Definition of Politics: "Poli" in latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "blood-sucking parasites." Anon
Angus
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