They're Taking the P*** Out Of the Electorate - Again!

[threegee]

John Bercow, the Speaker, faces accusations he has presided over a fresh cover-up of MPs' expenses after tens of thousands of pieces of paperwork relating to claims made before 2010 under the scandal-hit regime were shredded.

 

Members of the public who have written to Kathryn Hudson, the standards watchdog, to raise concerns about their MP's claims have been told there can be no investigation due to lack of evidence.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/11204405/MPs-to-escape-expenses-investigations-after-paperwork-destroyed-by-Parliament.html

 

No doubt Bercow is in line for a knighthood whoever gets in at the GE.  Services to establishment graft would seem the appropriate category Your Maj!

 

Why don't we have a National Record Destruction Day, destroying all accountancy data more than 1000 days old in the interests of data protection?  Sorry Mr Tax Inspector, nothing at all to do with covering up fiddles. Oh, so there's a legal requirement to keep records far longer?  Would that be the law which applies to the Westminster elites, or the law which applies to us dumb provincials?

[keith lockey]

AMEN. Threegee, spot on.