Over a month ago in the UK, the Daily Telegraph spurred public furor after the broadsheet newspaper released details of parliamentary official’s botched expenses. MPs had apparently submitted expenses for off-limit items including the cleaning of one Member’s moat. The backlash got so intense that the Speaker of the House was forced to resign – the first to resign in over 300 years.
After this and a number of MPs promising to stand down at the next general election, it looked like everything calmed down but it looks like another British paper is not finished with its hunt. The Guardian [...]
June 19, 2009
British Paper Asks The Crowd To Check Over 450,000 Pages Of MPs Expenses
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