It just better (or worse!)

[itsnotoutthere]

Conservative MP Andrew MacKay has quit as parliamentary aide to David Cameron over what the party said was an "unacceptable" expenses claim.

Mr Cameron has said all Tory MPs must be able to defend their allowance claims after a series of damaging allegations about MP's claims.

Mr MacKay, MP for Bracknell, is married to fellow Tory MP Julie Kirkbride.

It is understood that Mr MacKay and his wife claimed second homes allowances on two separate properties.

Full story :- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8049614.stm

So we obviously cannot trust the usual suspects 'Lib-Lab-Con' & with an election looming, who does that leave. (please no-one say the Greens).

Edited May 14, 2009 by itsnotoutthere

[schizoidwoman]

I wonder if he's the first and last or if others will now jump ship...

[itsnotoutthere]

I wonder if he's the first and last or if others will now jump ship...

Well it seems to me that his M.P. wife is just as culpable, so why doesn't she resign as well?

[schizoidwoman]

Well it seems to me that his M.P. wife is just as culpable, so why doesn't she resign as well?

We were just saying that in the office too; I wonder if she has also claimed for these houses...

[Lord Umbarger]

Maybe he can come to the U.S. and talk 435 of our leaders to do the same thing!

[chemical-licker]

We were just saying that in the office too; I wonder if she has also claimed for these houses...

good thinking and your instict was right.

Cameron's Commons aide Andrew MacKay quits after he and Tory MP wife claimed double mortgage payments

The MPs' expenses scandal claimed its first victim today as David Cameron's aide resigned over 'unacceptable' claims.

Andrew MacKay, who is married to fellow Tory MP Julie Kirkbride, claimed mortgage interest on their London home while she did the same on their constituency house.

This meant the couple effectively had no main home but were claiming for two second properties, funded by the taxpayer.

His departure came as former Labour minister Elliot Morley was suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party after claiming £16,000 for a non-existent mortgage.

In a further sign of parliamentary crisis, two peers were facing six-month suspensions after being found guilty of misconduct in the 'cash for amendments' scandal.

If their punishment is approved in a Lords vote, this would be the first suspension since the days of Oliver Cromwell back in the 1600s.

Dirty bunch of pigs. oink oinkers.

[stevewinn]

The time has come for the dissolution of Parliament. throw the feckers out, all MP's caught up in the expenses cannot be a candidate in the election that follows. Where is Cromwell when you need him.

Oliver Cromwell's Speech on the Dissolution of the Long Parliament-Given to the House of Commons

20 April 1653

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your

contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and

enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell

your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have

no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience

for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?

Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den

of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the

whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone!

So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!