If you thought your opinion of Parliament couldn’t sink any lower, then think again. This morning’s papers contain a couple of grim revelations about how MPs are responding to the expenses scandal, and they certainly fit in with the sorry pattern of denial and evasion that we’ve witnessed so far. Take the email sent out by the Parliamentary Labour Party to Labour MPs, and covered in the Independent. It hardly strikes a contrite tone, as it tells them that:
“It would be easy for the public to gain the impression from this [media] coverage that MPs are generally claiming excessively or outside the rules laid down by Parliament, which is not the case.”
And then there’s the “plot” to bring in a private sector company to run the expenses department, uncovered in the Times.
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