Another waste of taxpayers' money.

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk Expenses inquiry doomed, says former Commons clerk One of parliament's most senior former officials warns today that Gordon Brown's rushed initiative to set up an independent inquiry into MPs' expenses is doomed to fail because of the ability of MPs to "covertly sabotage" or "overturn" its findings. Sir Roger Sands, former clerk to the House of Commons, writing in today's letters pages, questions the ability and resources of the anti-sleaze watchdog, the Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL), to be able to tackle the problem.

This article destroys Gordon Browns' demands for the Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL), to be able to tackle the problem.
There has been not a single examination - inquiry to you and me- instigated by Labour since it came into office, that has achieved anything, lest of all the truth.