The credibilty of Parliament and MP's has onec again come under attack over the John Lewis list revelations.Released under the Freedom of information act,the list, given as a guide to what members of Parliament can claim for redecorating second homes and domestic expenses, has produced condemnation from all areas.
How Parliament could ever of thought that the public would expect a shop better known for its wedding gift lists to be the bench mark for claims expenses seems far fetched.
Alan Cochrane writes that
Most people who've covered the House of Commons over the years have known about - but generally kept quiet about - the tidy sum that MPs were making through having their second homes in London effectively paid for by the taxpayer
Red Box describes
It was named such, because staff used the John Lewis website as their guide to "reasonsable prices". Rather than Matalan.
Meanwhile this could only be the start,Nick Robinson reports that
The detailed expenses of every Member of Parliament are likely to be made public for the first time. An all party committee chaired by the Speaker looks set to recommend that the claims made by MPs over the past three years should be published later this year.
How many more revelations are we going to get and how much further down our esteem list is Parliament going to fall?
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