there has to be an element of trust, and I doubt whether any MP's expenses get forensically analysed.
And then you get the judgement thing. Is it ethical or not for Gerald Kaufman to have a chauffeur? one of the correspondents here thinks not. But GK no doubt thinks it perfectly ethical.
what annoys me though in this argument is the assumption that just because JL spends a lot he must be fiddling things.
you could equally argue that his costs are higher because he works harder. That would be 100% logical, but nobody wants to believe that.
