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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Total nonissue. Pretty much everyone in the corporate world will try to score extra expenses when they can. Youre talking about a few million pound, its literally not even worth discussing when you compare it to the billions spent on Iraq or bank bailouts.
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Totally agree with your post, although I think it was well worth cleaning up the situation, particularly in a credit crunch. In the corporate world shareholders will be making things much more difficult for those who would seek to use expenses this way, and now politicians are facing similar pressure.
The really interesting thing about the scandal is not that MPs were exploiting expenses for personal gain, but that despite the fact that this was happening across the board, the Tory supporting press has managed to convince the public that it is only really Labour who are to blame for this.