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Of MPs, fudged expenses and what India spends on them
British MPs may not need to fudge poll expenses but the current scandalous exposures show how good they are at fudging other things.
Apparently, when they demanded higher salaries under Tony Blair, they were quietly advised to make it up in expenses instead. A pay rise would raise a stink in the media whereas inflated expenses could slip through unnoticed.
The Blairs, husband and wife, seem to have been pretty generous to themselves. Now, one MP has been caught stinging taxpayers for 16 bedsheets in seven weeks while another gave himself 13,000 pounds as interest for a non-existent mortgage.
Eyebrows are raised at Gordon Brown's payment of 6,500 pounds to his brother for a shared cleaner.
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