Health Minister Phil Hope gets owned

[Kapitan_Phillips]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8047410.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8047410.stm)


Health minister Phil Hope is to repay £41,709 in second home allowances following media revelations.
The Corby MP said he had kept to the rules but stories about his expenses had caused a "massive blow" to his integrity and standing with voters.


Aye. However, last time I checked, embezzlement was a criminal offence, so why has this guy still got a job? :shifty:

[Tchocky]

What makes me angry about this is the "we kept withing the rules" defence.

Not. the. point.

[Konovalov]

What irks me is that interview after interview that I have seen on tv, these pollies keep saying sorry but not about their own conduct. Rather "sorry that we worked in such a bad system". Again zero personal accountability by MP's. And the Speaker of the House is just a total embarrassment. It's just stuff up after stuff up with him. Totally out of touch. :damn:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Frankly, I think people should have seen the iceberg when MPs declared that they could create the rules regarding their own expenses :doh:

[Jimbuna]

It's quite worrying when you consider this is only the tip of the iceberg.

There are many more like him out there :nope:

[jumpy]

Hehe, well what do you know? :D

All of this crap my be within the rules, but it is surely not in the spirit of the rules, a point which none of these self serving gravy-boaters seems capable of grasping.

Still, have a laugh with the daily mash:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/he%92s-a-self%11made-billionaire-and-you%92re-a-sleazy-twat%2c-everyone-tells-mandelson-200902191590/

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/top-tory-claims-for-drawbridge-wax-200905121754/

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/it%27s-the-system-that%27s-a-piece%11of%11****%2c-thieving-bastard%2c-say-mps-200905111751/

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/sorry-brown-gets-buck-naked-200905131757/

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/mp-becomes-first-ever-person-to-forget-he-had-paid-off-his-mortgage-200905141760/