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Originally Posted by muppetman11
He's a stand up guy getting people off benefits is his speciality , he managed in 2001 to secure his unemployed wife a £15,000 salary off of the taxpayer acting as his diary secretary , if that doesn't show his commitment to the cause.
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Of course, no self-employed person in the private sector has ever spread his business income around members of his family in order to make best use of allowances and tax rules.
Many MPs did many ridiculous things that were uncovered during the expenses scandal but I happen to think employing spouses to run their offices was not one of them. YMMV naturally.