Wednesday
Feb062008
by Bishop Hill
More on MPs' expenses
Feb 6, 2008 Sleaze
The inimitable Guido Fawkes has pointed out that of the three MPs appointed by Gordon Broon to investigate MPs' expenses
- David MacLean (Con) was the architect of the recent attempt to exempt aforementioned MPs' expenses from the Freedom of Information Act
- Stuart Bell (Lab) employed his son as a researcher (and the little brat used his access to the palace of Westminster to do some thieving to supplement his income)
- Nick Harvey (LibDem) is a part-time lobbyist
For the record it's also worth noting that Stuart Bell was one of those who voted in favour of David MacLean's bill making MPs' expenses secret. Nick Harvey didn't vote.
So, of the three people appointed, two are against any sort of transparency, and all three are compromised.
Eminently predicatable.
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