Author Topic: UK MPs are called to court for wrongful spending  (Read 970 times)

Blakenzy

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UK MPs are called to court for wrongful spending
« on: March 11, 2010, 11:57:27 AM »
Politicians tell court they are not guilty on expenses

Three MPs and a peer have said they are pleading not guilty in court to charges related to their expenses claims.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8561359.stm


"He is devastated to be in this position. He feels he has been singled out. He does not believe that he has done anything dishonest."
[translation] Everybody is doing it, why should I be punished?

LOL. I wonder how many congressmen would go down if something like this were tried in the US.
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both"

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Re: UK MPs are called to court for wrongful spending
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2010, 10:49:23 PM »
all of them? ???




nah some would have to go down twice. :angel: