03/11/2012

GO STRAIGHT TO JAIL…


Listening to the BBC ‘news’ last night I discovered that the Labour MP Denis MacShane had to quit parliament after a parliamentary watchdog recommended he should be suspended for a year over a series of false expense claims.

When it all came out we find he’d fiddled nearly £20 grand in expenses for an office he claimed was set-up in the garage of his South Yorkshire home. Signed claims with a “nom de plume” purporting to come from someone who did not in fact exist. He’d also claimed thousands of pounds for eight computers that mysteriously ‘got lost’ and submitted 19 false invoices which were "plainly intended to deceive".

At the end of the news piece we were told that despite all the evidence against him, Mr MacShane could not be prosecuted because of ‘House of Commons Rules!’ Therefore the Metropolitan Police have dropped its investigation into Mr MacShane after receiving advice from the Crown Prosecution Service.

If that was any of us, fraudulently obtaining more than £20,000 in Housing Benefit or tax credits we would be ordering porridge for breakfast and dreading the daily trip to the showers!

These MPs make the laws, and make sure if they get caught thieving, lying, cheating or doing anything wrong they are protected by parliamentary privilege. Folks, it stinks. Whichever way you spell it out, it's fraud and fraud carries a jail term.

No wonder our country is going down the pan and we ‘plebs’ are all broke whilst many of these MPs are sitting laughing at us!

Meanwhile, Ed Miliband says…nothing!

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