Oh I know about the Torygraph alright!
But this issue did rear it's head earlier - about 2008 I understand.
The only reason that the MP expenses was a 'scandal' there is because hardly
anyone in the UK does a tax return. Here, where we all do, we'd be smiling,
taking notes, joining in...
Andrew Fildes
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On 01/02/2012, at 5:37 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Yes, but perhaps you shouldn't believe everything you read in the Telegraph,
> Andrew. It is sometimes like a large Daily Mail which launches into rant
> mode on the basis of scant evidence. However, it did a good job with
> exposing the "expenses" of our MPs, about a year ago.
>
> I'm a Catholic and I wouldn't take it as an insulting song or dance. Mind
> you, those mad buggers in Glasgow . . .
>
> Chris
>
> On 1 Feb 2012, at 06:19, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
>> This sign-off of yours is really beginning to bother me.
>> I'm beginning to wonder if you have something there.
>> I may well be having an existential crisis based on an old and very silly
>> dance craze.
>> That said, I thought it was the Hokey Cokey anyway and that hokey pokey was
>> an ice cream flavour
>> Perhaps ice cream IS what it's all about.
>> That seems to make more sense.
>> I think I feel better now.
>> Well, a bit.
>>
>> Or I was until I read this...
>> <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3883838/Doing-the-Hokey-Cokey-could-be-hate-crime.html>
>
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