Wednesday 30 January 2008

Pigs in the trough?

Instances as this make the archaic use of English more difficult to explain. Is this the honourable act of an Honourable Member of Parliament? Past miscreants from the Conservative Party, caught doing wrong, have been jailed and rightly so.
There Labour counterparts who have disgraced their position, treated the electorate with contempt, been incompetent in the extreme, should also face the wrath of the Courts.
clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk

£1.5m: The extraordinary amount Tory MP Derek Conway's family earned from the taxpayer (after bonuses)

And the Daily Mail can reveal that in six years the cost to the taxpayer of Derek Conway and his family was an astonishing £1,535,716.70.

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2 comments:

  1. And of course the secrecy surrounding this story about Lord Hoyle (Doug Hoyle) a Freeman of the Borough of Warrington

    http://politics.guardian.co.uk/lords/story/0,,2248940,00.html

    A member of the House of Lords who took money for making an introduction is to be investigated by a disciplinary committee of veteran peers this afternoon.

    The results of which are to be kept secret!!

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  2. Yet the authorities can delve into the most minutest of accounts if you are a Pensioner seeking what is rightfully yours - your pension!!!
    How would these porkies like it if the same stringent rules applied to them?

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