Chris

No it isn't. The reason so many MPs were stretching the definition of "expenses" so far was that they had been told, privately, that if they agreed not to vote themselves pay rises they could go some way towards making it up with some very generous help with their domestic bills.

Or did you never wonder why it was that with so many ridiculous stories in the Telegraph about wisteria, duck houses and 'flipping' of the main residence, so few MPs ended up being prosecuted for actually doing something illegal?