Stop picking on our poor parliamentarians!
Francis Sedgemore, Sunday 10 May 2009
Sir,
It’s all a storm in a teacup, this parliamentary expenses scandal cooked up by a younger generation of moralising, muckraking and generally clueless journalists with an over-inflated sense of their public importance. We are all partial to the occasional (and entirely reasonable) expenses fiddle and tax avoidance exercise, so why pick on our MPs? They are paid a paltry £60k a year for providing selfless public service, often at great personal cost to themselves, their families and liaisons dangereuses.
Yours, receipts in hand…
Lunchtime O’Booze (retired)
Feed the writer! 
Sunday 10 May 2009 at 18:19 GMT
Oh, man, you owe me now a new keyboard, the other one got a short because of all the tears.
Sunday 10 May 2009 at 19:10 GMT
Never mind tears; there’ll be wailing and gnashing of teeth aplenty among MPs over the coming weeks.
Monday 11 May 2009 at 07:49 GMT
I’m so out of touch with news from back home that I had a look at the whole article. Oh good grief. And Lord Mandelson?!?! Ok, I ‘spose so.
Monday 11 May 2009 at 09:56 GMT
I pity you in your state of cultural impoverishment, Gadj, with only Romanian political corruption to keep you entertained. The British way may be a little understated, but it’s done with so much style.
Today it’s the turn of the Tories.