In any other job they would be sacked, charged with fraud and made a social pariah. Yet here in the UK, they keep their well paid job as an MP and we think that its all ok that they get away with it...
Michael Martin, the House of Commons Speaker, faced a fresh storm over his expenses last night after it emerged that he used air miles earned on official business to fly relatives from Glasgow to London over new year.
His adult children Mary Ann and Paul, with their families, saved around £360 a head by using the perks accrued when Mr Martin was travelling for work. The trip fell in a period when Martin's use of taxpayers' money was already under attack, amid reports that his wife had clocked up a bill of £4,000 taking taxis to do the shopping for official functions.
Ministers are banned from using air miles accrued on official trips, and are expected to put them towards reducing the cost of future ministerial travel or donate them to charity.
The revelations in today's Sunday Mirror will cast fresh doubt on whether Martin is the right person to chair the current parliamentary inquiry into MPs' expenses, which was set up to restore public confidence following the row over MP Derek Conway hiring his son Henry as a researcher.
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