double salary? what double salary?
like you said, none of them is whiter than white.
I have nearly 40 years experience of expenses living, including firing 2 managers for fiddling them, and the sad fact is that most people I ever meet regard expenses as fair game and seem to have a moral blackout when it comes to expenses. I really hate that attitude, but it seems to be human nature. Since most MPs are human or nearly human, I assume the majority of MPs have the same attitude.
I only ever met Gerald Kaufman once , for instance. He was on the train to london. 1st class. No doubt he had not paid for his ticket. No doubt we had. So how come he gets to travel 1st class and his constituents don't?
I have no doubt equally that lib dems do the same.
A pox on all their houses, john.
(And I travel 1st class and business class - and buy my own bloody tickets before you ask)