The Steedman Column
YOUR ROUTE TO
“Redactions”
LOW-COST
T
he expenses scandal swept
through Westminster like the
kind of tornado that leaves whole
towns bare of houses. Of course the
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extent of the abuse may have taken
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politicians by surprise, but I doubt
most of us were exactly shocked
that a few less than honourable
members have been at it.
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political establishment is corrupt
to the core? The rise of the fringe
parties at the recent Euro elections
would certainly signify a shift of
trust away from the established parties, indicating that the public is
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starting to smell a general malaise within Parliament.
A sad fact of life is that when given an opportunity to exploit
privilege, all too many people take it with open arms and politicians
are no different. The system that allowed wealthy MPs to use
public money to clean swimming pool pumps and moats of course
should never have been allowed existence to start with. And so
in the aftermath of the uncovering of this bout of self induced
Competitive premiums for:
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• Private & public hire vehicles
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• Private car bonus accepted*
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to drink from a gravy train paid from hard earned taxes?
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In an address to the Commons, the beleaguered Prime Minister
stated that from now on, receipts for all expense claims shall be
• Schemes for cab bases
published within days on the internet. And this, you may think would
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go a far way in preventing future abuse whilst augmenting a properly
transparent system. It is expected though that many receipts will be
• Legal expenses and replacement
edited and include “redactions”, meaning many details will not actually
cabs available*
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And with his bold statement that most politicians “are in politics not
for what they can get but for what they can give”, you get left with the
*subject to terms & conditions
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feel. And that is the polar opposite of what he said in his address.
phone now on
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0845 230 3330
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