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Originally Posted by Livia
Haha... now THAT is interesting and strangely amusing.
This isn't relevant to the main thread but to that story... Fiddling election expenses would result in a case of electoral fraud. Obviously the recent cases of MPs overclaiming and falsely claiming does not constitute "electoral" fraud. Electoral fraud would result in the MP and their agent being jailed because it's the agent who returns details of expenses to the Electoral Commission and signs their name to them. And that's me. And that's why my MPs expenses are always right! As a side note, and speaking personally, I think that MPs of all parties should be regularly placed in the pillories on College Green and pelted with rotten fruit by the elecorate... help them remember that they are public servants. But I didn't say that, obviously.
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Very true but MP's fiddling expenses from the Commons would be considered to have been guilty of an abuse of a public position.
Love the idea of the pillories, should bring back some other punishments from days gone by too.