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Sunday 8 June 2008

Unbelievable - Sadly not

The Times reports the unsurprising news that:

"THE House of Commons has shredded more than 1m documents detailing expenses claims by MPs that were due to be revealed to the public.

The Commons authorities said last week they had destroyed all documents for MPs up to April 2004, even though official guidelines state that such records should be kept for six years.

Martin Bell, who was elected as an independent MP on an antisleaze platform in 1997, said: “I think it is likely that some racketeering by some MPs has been so outrageous that, if it was revealed, they would be under pressure to resign.”"



I wonder how many of the shredded documents relate to senior Labour MPs? Why have I heard nothing on the BBC about this story, just more and more about TORY SLEAZE Carolind Spelman.

1 comment:

Barnacle Bill said...

Official guidelines want to be tightened up to actual legal requirements.
This stinks too much of covering something nasty up, with Air-Miles Martin in charge, I can only think that most of the embarrassment lies on the Government's side.
I just hope someone, somewhere might have photo-copied some of these now shredded expense claims.