Whitewash Or A Real Probe?

[youngmafbog]

http://news.sky.com/story/1380500/police-launch-house-of-lords-expenses-probe

I won't be holding my breath.

[bazwillrun]

Whitewash.....
as expected

let me guess just like Warsi, theyll be allowed to pay back the filched money in installments from their future expenses claims

[ludwig]

The police have no particular fondness for MPs or Lords as the plebgate affair shows, so it'd only be a whitewash if Parliament was investigating itself.

The problem with parliamentary expenses is that the rules are so lax that it's difficult to actually break them.

[scooping]

What a shower and yet more self-inflicted wounds that UKIP can exploit. If I conned my employers out of £13,000, like Hazel Blears, I'd be in prison - not re-elected.

[ToraToraTora]

It'll be a whitewash, both houses treat the public purse with contempt. Personallly I'd abolish the whole sorry shower replace them with 100 elected "senators". They can keep their titles if they like so lord and lady muck can still "lord" it over the commoners if it floats their boat but they shouldn't have any sort of say in running the country.