More Snouts in the Trough ; Chris Moncrieff the Doyen of Lobby Writers

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J UST WHEN you thought the Westminster snouts in the trough saga could not get any worse, I see that Britain's five Sinn Fein MPs have been racking up a bill of nearly half a million pounds on two rented London flats they share. The hypocrisy of all this is that these MPs refuse to take their seats in the House of Commons.

They won't even swear in, because an oath of allegiance to the sovereign is against their beliefs. So there can be absolutely no parliamentary reason why the poor British taxpayer should have to fork out for expensive accommodation for people who, by their own decision, ignore Parliament. Whenever they come to London, it is certainly not to plead the cause of their constituents in the Palace of Westminster.

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More Snouts in the Trough ; Chris Moncrieff the Doyen of Lobby Writers

This latest sordid development simply demonstrates yet again how woefully inadequately our errant MPs are controlled and how urgent it is that the situation is put right. This growing number of MPs who s...

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