MPs Expenses #3

Dave Brown - The Independent - 19 June

After some moron redacted the official publication of UK MPs expenses.

This extract from an article at The Times:

MPs were shamed yesterday after the much vaunted opening of their expenses files produced a humiliating cover-up of the most serious abuses.

Parliament and its officials were accused of colluding in a £2 million operation to protect the greedy as the supposed new era of transparency was drowned in a sea of black ink.

More than a million pieces of paper — bills, receipts and claim forms — were posted on the House of Commons website shortly before 6am, but thousands of them were indecipherable. Much of the information was blacked out as the MPs, helped by the authorities, censored incriminating material, citing security and privacy

In Adam’s view this very ill-judged action will heighten public anger. Do MPs have a deathwish?

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