The Metropolitan Police will not investigate the leak of MPs' expenses to a newspaper
This is from a police force that investigates groups of innocent people without any evidence like religious groups and political groups and yet they refuse to investigate these Politicians,In the past they have wasted millions in wasted investigations on less evidence than this? Didnt we all expect this .terrible the politicians win again.

Hello Ace, there will be no prosecution over the leak, which is not the same as saying it will not investigate. Who ever got the details out , should be knighted.

zarquon, bramhall
im in total agreement with you about the knighthood ,but i still think this will get buried.

I think that there is little more any of us can say about this expense scandal. It has probably been going on unnoticed for years and that the tax payer has paid out millions of pounds to maintain the lifestyle that many MP's have become used to over that time.

Ace Shakespeare , manchester

The Metropolitan Police have announced that they are not going to investigate who leaked the information about expenses to the Daily Telegraph but, my understanding is, that they are continuing to investigate the expense claims of a number of MP's with a view to prosecution.

I wonder why the MP's get a salary if they can claim for everything they need,so is the salary spending money.I think there will be a few MP's that will lose there jobs and it carry on just the same when the dust settled,some of the MP's expenses are a lot more that some of the public's salary's for a full year they are just plain greedy.

Well, we are tutt tutting about this, but we all suspected it for years and did nothing ?, why don't the media/police publish the names of all those crooks in parliament who have robbed the system , and the amount they have stolen ???.
This of course will never happen !!!, because they won't rock the boat and spoil it for everyone will they ?, there is so much brushed under the carpet.

Norman ,
Perth,
West Aust

The MP's who have made false or enhanced claims are no better than benefit cheats and should be prosecuted and made to repay all the money claimed and pay the cost of the prosecution!

While we are investigating MPs lets look at MEPs expenses.They are also a law onto themselves our ratepayers and taxpayers are being mugged by their own politicians.Lets pull out of the EU and get control back into our own hands and while we are at it,slim down our political system.

All the time Mr Brown has been looking to close tax havens and he has been working in one! Bev Hughes doesnt seem to have done to badly out of claiming her expenses either.
Get rid of the lot of them.
yours disgustingly
Big Blue Doris.

This is a very sad time for our nation, our government has turned against us, the very people that we have elected have been lining there already bulging pockets at the tax payers expense.
Whatever faith and trust we once had in the Labour Government has all but disappeared, Members of Parliament are supposed to be well respected members of our society, they are leaders, standing up and fighting on our behalf, but no-more.
They have indeed shown there true colours, no better than common criminals they have bled the system dry, hundreds of thousands of pounds have been claimed by MP’s and yet the country is in the midst of a credit crisis, is that pure coincidence?

People should not be afraid of there government.
A government should be afraid of its people.

Never has this been more relevant then now, it is time now to put politics to one side and to do what is best for this nation and for its people, after all the real power lies with the people, a government exists only to serve the public and when they no-longer serve the public and start to serve only themselves then it is time that they were removed.

If you want what I want, if you want these criminals to stand trial for there crimes and if you want to make your voice heard then let’s join together and call for the Immediate Dissolution of Parliament.

Chris Dickenson
Manchester

I think that all those MPs suspected of breaking the law should be charged by the police and face a fair trial like everyone else would do.

This al reminds me of tinpot dictators and the way they run their countries.

Anyone remember Saddam Hussains palaces?

Makes me sick to the core

What are you talking about? The Conservative MPs have been the main ones at it. Moats, duck houses, even David Cameron claims hundreds of thousands of pounds (one of the biggest claims made) at our expense!

I really hope this doesn't lead to the even more crooked Tories getting back in, that will just send the corruption from bad to worse (like it was last time they were in).

Vote Green Party to see off the BNP in the Euro elections. They are the best placed party, statistically, to keep the neo-Nazis out of power. And they are untainted by the MPs expenses scandal.

By voting Green you can give the mainstream a parties a kick up the backside for the expenses scandal AND put the neo-Nazi BNP back in its cage.

Vote for a Green New Deal to generate millions of green jobs--insulating all our homes and buildings to conserve energy, developing solar and wind power and creating a first class integrated, modern public transport system to end gridlock.Even Obama agrees with this.

Employ people to care for pensioners--bring back the home helps!

Use your vote on Thursday 4th June!

Do not let this E mail business distract us from the expenses row, because this is exactly why it has been orchestrated. I have no time at all for Brown and the labour party so does this not show them for what they are,lowdown snakes in the grass sacrificing their leader just to try and save their own skins Rob

We have all heard of a 'jobsworth' but it was probably more than their jobs were worth for employees in the Parliamentry Fees Office to question the claims submitted by the Members of Parliament.
It takes a very brave or foolish person indeed to question their boss's expense claim!

Fozz

its almost funny that while appealing for a vote against Fascism, you promote a "New Deal", you are aware that Mussolini wrote in the New York Times of FDR's New Deal "Your plan for coordination of industry follows precisely our lines of cooperation."

What are sides of the political system that facilitate corruption?
2. How is the issue of financing of politics evaluated? What type of regulation would be
helpful to provide transparency? What are the underlying reasons of inefficient
policies so far?
3. Is service – personal interest balance pursued in Turkish politics? How does the
strengthening of local administrations affect corruption?
4. Could regulations arranged following economic crises in early 2000s have impact to
decrease corruption?
5. Why can’t the parliamentary immunity be lifted? What should be the limitations of
parliamentary immunity? Could immunity be evaluated has an obstacle for the
struggle with corruption?
6. Does the designation of the candidates by the parties highlight the dependence of the
representatives (in relation to their re-election), which affects their behavior within the
Parliament (discipline of vote)? Is the eventual re-election of MPs submitted to the
approbation of their candidature by the direction of the party? If yes, what are the
mechanisms of negotiation between parties and candidates to the candidature during
pre-electoral periods? Which kind of resources do MP candidates provide to political
parties?
7. Do political parties constrain MPs’ behavior, at least concerning the discipline of
vote?
8. How can you define relations of MPs with their electorate? Can clientelism be defined
as corruption? What is exchanged?
9. One of the principal roles recognized to MPs consists of transmitting individual
requests - in general, but not exclusively, from their electorate - and answering them.
This role is both legitimate (a MP has to be at the service of the people and accessible
to its requests) and illegitimate (as far as these practices are often disparaged as being
particularistic, flouting the public good and the general interest). What is the drawing
line between these two? What should be the drawing line between these two?
10. Which resources and legitimacy can MPs get from their activity of mediation or from
the satisfaction of the requests? In some particular cases, can this activity also
constitute a risk,lead to the loss of respectability or social capital of a MP? If yes,
why?

MP'HAVENT GOT ANYTHING TO BE PROUD OF''!!!!!! AS LONG AS WE ARE ON EARTH AS PEOPLE WHO DOESNT IDENTIFY WHAT IS RISK WHAT IS NOT''!!!!!

ILYAS ORHANLI