Expenses Scrounging Scum

Expenses Scrounging Scum



Expenses Scrounging Scum

Tony McNulty is just the latest in a long line of MPs and ministers who get away with things that would leave benefits claimants in prison for fraud. In his case he has claimed £60,000 on his parents home, Jacqui Smith claimed £20,000+ on her sisters home, Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper both claim every penny they can though they are married and live together. Before anyone complains I am aware that it isn’t just Labour MPs and ministers who do this.

How long will it be before someone cracks down on these abuses of the system?

I looked at doing part time voluntary work, but it is so easy to make a small mistake and end up losing benefits that I gave up on the idea. Yet MPs on over £63,000 a year can effectively defraud the system with no fear of any sort of meaningful punishment.

What I find more disturbing is that while these claims may not break the letter of the rules, they are counter to the spirit of them. So each person that has claimed must have accepted that while what they are doing may not actually be wrong, it will still look wrong.

How much contempt do they have for what we think of them?