So the courts have done us a great favour by setting the jail tariff for stealing from the taxpayer by fraudulent MPs' expenses claims. In this case it isn't an MP or peer, but a budget officer in the fees office, jailed yesterday for fiddling £6k.
Let's hope the courts are consistent in applying this tariff to any MPs and peers convicted of expenses fraud.
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This is another example of one law for us and another for them. What about 9 months for Brown for mortgage flipping? And all the rest of them - Tory, LibDem, Labour - for all the fiddling?
I understand that if you hold your breath long enough you pass out.
Trouble is, when you come around again - not much has changed.
Holding your breath for an MP to be sent to chokey seems similarly futile.
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