Stephen Fry hits the nail on the head! Page 8

Quote: Griff @ May 18 2009, 3:10 PM BST

However I'm not sure I buy Aaron's argument that if the MPs were paid more they wouldn't dream of fiddling their expenses.

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That's not what I said, and certainly not what I meant. There will (well, would, before all of this claim-by-claim publication) always be members, just like in any other profession, who make dodgy claims. But many of those which have been highlighted in the past couple of weeks, I don't think the members concerned would have felt able to even try for if their salaries were higher, and consequently the list of claimable items and areas shorter.

Quote: oldcowgrazing @ May 18 2009, 3:36 PM BST

A moat, ffs!

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Now that one was just plain comical.

(And I seem to recall it being an item on a reciept which other items were claimed for, and not actually claimed for itself.)

I would bloody love a moat.

On another matter, this is renewing my love for politics. The EU manifesto launch by David Cameron followed directly by the Speaker's statement. Very, very exciting stuff.

Quote: zooo @ May 18 2009, 4:18 PM BST

I would bloody love a moat.

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The whole country has a bloody big moat around it. Called the ocean.

But no drawbridge!

Quote: zooo @ May 18 2009, 4:22 PM BST

But no drawbridge!

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The Channel Tunnel?

Pff.
I want a drawbridge, and a portcullis. Stat.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ May 18 2009, 4:25 PM BST

The Channel Tunnel?

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That's the smugglers' route underneath the defences.

Quote: zooo @ May 18 2009, 4:22 PM BST

But no drawbridge!

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Ok so you don't want a drawbridge. What about a Strawbridge then?

*rejects*

Quote: zooo @ May 18 2009, 4:44 PM BST

*rejects*

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Come on, he could tickle you with that 'tache and then sweep up the kitchen.

Quote: zooo @ May 18 2009, 4:44 PM BST

*rejects*

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Fair enough, it was poor

Ha!
Worth a try though...

Quote: Lee Henman @ May 18 2009, 2:28 PM BST

I'm amazed that ANYONE is surprised at what's been going on. "What?! Our beloved politicians have been DISHONEST??? But how can this be??? Surely they are beyond reproach!" Come on...

And I don't see how Fry has shot himself in the foot at all. What he's done is flagged up an uncomfortable truth - that we've all been manipulated by the press (again) into getting into a flap about something relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

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I have little problem with MPs messing about with allowances as long as they pay the price when caught, same as anyone else.

How ever I have a massive Death star mother of all problems with abusing security measures to protect themselves. Refusing to go along with freedom of informtation requests so as not to reveal abit of nest feathering and then blaming it on Al Quaeda is completely bogus.

Sorry but if the leaders of this country are lying their arses off to cover up big TVs and massage chairs. I absolutely believe they'll lie about WMDs, shooting innocent people and spying on us.

Each time a rock is lifted on something this government is upto there seem to be slugs underneath it.

Expenses maybe not the biggest deal in and of themselves. That they are the tip of an iceberg of greedy, venal unapologetic professional politicos who I wouldn't trust with a diabetic tuck shop kitty is.