"A million percent"

[NotAllThere]

125% mortgages?

Please pay attention - it's already been agreed that some things can be more than 100%.

[FSM with Cheddar]

A million percent within means that if the rules were ten thousand times more stringent, then he'd still be within them. i.e. that he's not be pushing the boundaries at all.

But I doubt his thought processes extended that far.

I can't see the logic behind that.

100 Rules. Complied with 100 of them. TF. 100% complied.

There is no possibility for any more compliance. If there were then 10,000 rules and he now complied with all of those, he would still only comply with 100% of the previous rules shirely?

Menelaus ?

[TimberWolf]

I always give 125% of 80%.

[Bagpuss]

125% mortgages?

A loan of 125% of the equity, so it's 125% when compared to the value.

Your maximum effort cannot be 110% because you are not comparing

HTH

[Doggy Styles]

A million percent within means that if the rules were ten thousand times more stringent, then he'd still be within them. i.e. that he's not be pushing the boundaries at all.

How do you make a rule 10,000 times more stringent?

[Moscow Mule]

You can give 110% (or indeed 200%) of somebody else's effort. It's just rude to point that out..

[wurzel]

Anyhow, he's refusing to pay back a red cent...

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...because he's done nothing wrong and it's all the fault of the rules.

[Moscow Mule]

Hopefully his party will have the sense to deselect him at the next election.

[wurzel]

He's gone now....

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[The Lone Gunman]

he's done nothing wrong and it's all the fault of the rules.

That is where he is wrong.
The green book quite clearly states that MPs should not make claims that may outrage the public.
Clearly we are outraged (or at least a bit miffed), therefore he has broken the rules. If he did not gauge public opinion he is not fit for office and if he went ahead anyway then he has commited a moral fraud if not a legal one.