Expenses accused just worst of a bad bunch
There are many elected representatives no doubt breathing a sigh a relief. Those, for example, who claimed maximum eating allowances or home cinema set-ups, whether or not they were morally entitled, go scot-free and are technically innocent of criminal wrongdoing but the only difference between these cases and those of the three accused are those of scale and of getting caught.
ALEXANDER MCKAY
New Cut Rigg
Edinburgh
Your sketch about proceedings against the alleged miscreant MPs (12 March) prompts my disappointment as to the "distancing" by the leadership of the two main UK political parties of their four criminally accused members.
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Hide AdThis "walk away" parallels, for me, all the parliamentary abuses that have been tumbling from the Westminster financial closets over past months.
One might think it was the "offended" parties who had found and exposed the abuses. It was a newspaper, not any of the party leaders.
In all the distancing there were few acknowledgments that the party leaders failed to be on top of what was happening under their noses. When your own nose is in the trough such overview might be tricky.
IAN JOHNSTONE
Forman Drive
Peterhead