Sorry to see the Tory MP who I defeated in 1997 has died: https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=1041776101&attachment_id=4435249636544604&message_id=mid.%24cAAAAACB0PTqDGOjxNV85… (View Post)

Yes, well, all things are relative. I remember teaching a Chinese seminar group and frankly describing the expenses scandal - they fell about laughing at the idea that MPs were doing things like buyi… (View Post)

As others have now said, I don't think it's criminal. In many societies it's of course commonplace for members of Parliament to take up issues that they have received money for - I dou… (View Post)

Thinking back to when I briefly claimed JSA (as UC was then called), I remember the ferocious warnings given to claimants who failed to declare income in order to reduce the effective tax rate of 80-… (View Post)

Credit to TissuePrice. (View Post)