Mps To Escape Expenses Investigations, How Very Convenient.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/11204405/MPs-to-escape-expenses-investigations-after-paperwork-destroyed-by-Parliament.html

/// However, under that same set of guidelines, the pay, discipline and sickness records of Commons staff are kept until their 100th birthday. Health and safety records are kept for up to 40 years, while thousands of other classes of official documents on the day-to-day running of the House are stored indefinitely in the Parliamentary Archive. ///

Why are expense records treated differently?

[sandyRoe]

So that those with houses for their ducks and moats well-cleaned can sleep easily knowing they'll not be called to account now.

[bazwillrun]

So they can be convenientyl "lost" in case of investigations !

[janbee]

Well, I'm suitably rocked on my heels with shock !...not.

[VHG]

Another example of why "the public" are sick to death of our politicians.

They tell us all what to do and how to live our lives, and yet seem to think most of these rules don't apply to themselves.

[youngmafbog]

And expenses fiddlers are just Tories then Sandy?

You really have to ask that AOG !!

[aelmpvw]

isn't everything backed up on computers or has there been a convenient fire in the it department?

[Gromit]

// John Bercow, the Speaker, faces accusations he has presided over a fresh cover-up of MPs' expenses after tens of thousands of pieces of paperwork relating to claims made before 2010 under the scandal-hit regime were shredded.
Members of the public who have written to Kathryn Hudson, the standards watchdog, to raise concerns about their MP’s claims have been told there can be no investigation due to lack of evidence. //

I wonder if a criminal offence has taken place here. Some MPs were guilty of criminal activity. Deliberately destoying evidence is obsteucting the police.

It should certainly be a sackable offence. The last speaker was got rid of and did far less damage than Bertcow.

[baza]

In the event of a police investigation could the speaker be charged with perverting the course of justice?

[Gromit]

Baza,
By destroying all the evidence, Bercow has effectively ensured that there will be no further police investigations.
But what he has done is corrupt and he should be sacked.

[baza]

^^^^ I agree, nasty sly little man.

[andy-hughes]

Speaker Bercow may well face some heat over this, but since it is in the interests of a lot of MP's that this destruction of records draws a line under their appalling behaviour, then the heat is likley to be tepid and shortlived.

As you say AOG - how very convenient - rarely have you spoken a truer word.

[crapmemory]

This is the same government that is trying to reduce people claiming benefit while getting this BIG benefit for themselves! So glad we're all in this together. NOT.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes Minister storyline brought to life. Unbelievable.

[agchristie]

Brings a whole new meaning to a shred of evidence....