Brown and Cameron united over expenses repayments.
Another day and the expenses saga gets even more farcical!
This morning saw Cameron on GMTV saying that Conservative MPs would have to pay back what was asked by Legg or they wouldn't be allowed to stand again as Conservative MPs ( I'd like to see him enforce that one! ).
Brown on the other hand showed his inability to actually make a firm decision by stating that " he was prepared to consider taking disciplinary action ". Surely he could say that he would definitely take action against those Labour MPs that refused to pay back money?
50 Labour MPs met up with Harriet Harman ( it was only a couple of months ago she was saying that " MPs who fiddle expenses in the future could face jail " ) and Nick Brown for expenses advice.
Is it me or are MPs so sheltered from the real world and normal working life ( Eric Pickles is - see his hilarious interview on Question Time below ) that they STILL don't understand why the public are angry at them. It's not the fact that their flawed expense claims system, setup and administered by themselves, allowed them to rack up huge expenses that most people and businesses would not be able to justify. It's the fact that they can't see they were morally wrong in what they did!
People expect MPs to have a high moral standard and behave in a professional and acceptable manner whilst representing the public, NOT like a bunch of greedy pigs with their noses stuck right into the trough.
Their claims may have been within the " rules and regulations " of what they could acceptably ' get away with '. That doesn't mean they're acceptable to a third party ( as is now being proven ) or even the public. Making up your own rules and regulations and exploiting the system is morally wrong, unjust, unfair and completely unacceptable.
They all need to be big, stand up and apologise for their actions and pay back the money. Trying to block Legg in court, appealing to the parliamentary commissioner for standards or trying to force a vote in the House of Commons only does more damage and makes them look VERY GUILTY!
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