International Law

I'm alright Jack

By John Hirst

I was amused by the interviewee stating, on the BBC 10 O' Clock News last night, that he sympathised with the view that prisoners in jail are more honest than MEPs. Certainly, if you or I misappropriated £160,000 of public money every year we would be in trouble with the law. That MEPs together steal £125M every year from the public purse is bad enough. To add insult to injury, the MEPs have just voted not to make public the report of the audit into their expenses fiddles. Whilst many of us are facing financial difficulties in paying ordinary household bills, those supposedly representing us are more interested in robbing us blind. There needs to be some mechanism in place which allows the public to monitor MPs and MEPs and stop this widespread abuse.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).