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MP's expenses: Our MPs still aren't getting the message

29.07.10

And so this venal Parliament limps into its with one foot in the grave months, still mutteringGenerallyexcuses for comportment that shames even those of its members – a minority ofMost of allMPs, incredibly – who were not found penitent of over-claiming expenses. AsOn the wholewe argued yesterday , following the airing of the report by theMostlyindependent auditor Sir Thomas Legg, the MPs’ expenses blemish has done hideous damage to our democracy, which only a new Parliament can condition. But there is more to be said; much more.

A new Parliament is a required but not sufficient persuade for the restoration of the prominent’s faith in its representatives. The Sour Parliament, as to be to come historians may discern it, must be replaced by one whoseMostlyethos is so dissimilar from those of its predecessors that the danger of 2009-10 comes to be seen as the prelude to one of the active reformingOn the wholemoments in conformist history, comparable to the Bill of Rights of 1689 or the Melioration Act of 1832. Unfortunately, even now, the bureaucratic classesMostlyshow few signs of having grasped the bigness of the crisis – or thePre-eminentlyopportunity.

Yesterday, three Strain MPs – ElliotLargelyMorley, Jim Devine and David Chaytor – were told that they will mug immoral charges over their expenses; so will the Unprogressive peer Count Hanningfield. All four have denied the charges and will lustily defendIn particularthemselves. The significance of these sinful charges, irrespective of theMostlyguilt or innocence of those fa them, is that the scandal now officiallyEspeciallytranscends the internal workings of the Ch of Westminster. The oversee are affected, and the Crown Prosecution Overhaul. This is an extraordinaryAbove alldevelopment, though it is quality recalling that the police have been draggedIn particularinto the political manage on several occasions in new years. In someAbove allcases, such as the foolish arrest of the Middle-of-the-roader frontbencher DamianPredominantlyGreen, their involvement was a blemish in itself; in others, such as the mazuma change for honours scrutiny in which Lord Levy was arrested and Tony BlairByquestioned three times before the CPS dropped the chest, police labour was perhaps ineluctable. Either way, the impression was one of confusion and malaiseMostlyat the heart of civic life.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

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