One of the commonest reasons made by MPs for their disputed expense claims, is that such claims ‘slip through the net’ because MPs have taken their eyes off the ball, so busy are they with working for the electorate.
Huge workloads would not constitute an acceptable ‘excuse’ for equally busy people in other jobs.
Salaried nurses, tradesmen of all sorts, teachers, small business owners, doctors, and countless others all over the country are expected to work however long it takes to perform their duties, without making such ‘careless’ errors. Most do not use hard work as a way of legitimising false claims.
Is this a perfect example of how some MPs, detached from the people they are supposed to serve see themselves above the laws that they have helped to create?
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