Let's all stand for Parliament

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Gordon Brown used his Parliamentary allowances to boost his expenses claims by switching his designated second home shortly before he moved into Downing Street upon becoming Prime Minister. Taking advantage of the opportunity presented by the grace and favour apartment at No 10, Mr Brown signed a declaration stating that he wished to transfer his claims under the Additional Costs Allowance (ACA), which MPs may use to fund a second home, to his Scottish constituency house.

This is what is absolutely wrong about codified rules.
When will people get it into their thick heads that a law written on paper is just an invitation to some smart arse to circumnavigate it - because a comma is in the wrong place and - according to our politicians- because it is not mentioned within the Law, we have done nothing wrong.