MP's repaying £1.14m....

[R1Geezer]

Exccellent, look forward to some prosecutions. Anyway I gather this whole exercise cost approximately the same as what MP's are being asked to repay. Should they not all have to pay a proportional share of that too? It seems we spent a million to get a milllion, waste of time monetarily, though it was worth exposing the snouts in trough approach of most MP's!

[Sqad]

Personally I couldn't care less about the Moat House, the 42" TV sets, the gardeners fees etc.........as long as the MP's who claimed for a non existent second mortgage are charged and "sent down"

[rov1200]

If the motive of MPs is so self serving how can anyone have faith in their future decisions. Remember most of the biggest culprits held senior cabinet positions. Maybe we need a new form of government? One suggestion is to privatise it and based on the results of the economy we could pay them bonuses.

[Sqad]

rov...remember, they are human beings first and foremost, with all the human failings that beset us all and M.P's second.

Serving humanity has nothing to do with most professions or work, unless one does Missionary work.

[Gromit]

It was a whitewash.

They didn't even look at MPs who had been flipping their homes several times a year. That was the most dishonest action exposed (after the phantom mortgages which were criminal fraud). Now they think it is over and desperately want to move on. I bet they do.

Every MP who appealed against the sum owed had their repayment reduced. Some MPs had paid back thousands of pounds only to be told they needed to have paid back only a fraction of what they had already admitted to. The fact that the money recovered and the cost of the enquiry were the same is in itself suspicious.

Will there be criminal charges for fraud today? Apparently we will know at 11am today.

[Oneeyedvic]

Gromit ///They didn't even look at MPs who had been flipping their homes several times a year. ///

Because they did an immoral thing, not an illegal thing. Why bother investigating people when we know that they have done something immoral but stayed in the boundaries of the law?

[anotheoldgit]

They should not only pay the full amount back but interest should be placed on it also.