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Unread 19 Jun 2009, 22:07   #7
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Re: MP's Expenses (UK politics)

Let's not forget, this isn't actually news. It's long been known that MPs, like most people in any sort of institutional or corporate environment, claim just about anything they can on expenses. The actual rules that govern this have long been public knowledge. We just didn't care until the newspapers told us to. So what if they abused the system? Nobody even considered it to be wrong until the recession hit - now the media is just using it to stir up doubt in the entire political system. Billions and billions of pounds of public money ends up in private pockets, most of it wastefully, but we turn a blind eye to it because we're not told to be up in arms about it. The expenses "scandal" is a tiny drop in a very big ocean.
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