Reply to: Don't act holier than thou, you would ....

[sasguru]

Now now, your turn will come. I'm sure your a very bright lad, really.

Competitive ain't he? When he learned I was a millionaire, he had to be one too

[suityou01]

Yawn.

Now now, your turn will come. I'm sure your a very bright lad, really.

[Cyberman]

I am taking my pension early instead of applying for means-tested benefits so I am quite easily on a higher moral and ethical level than many grasping MPs who should be resigning in droves.

[NotAllThere]

Me too. If you are going to steal, you might as well do it properly.

It's like those sad permies who put their jobs at risk by fiddling £10 of expenses.

[DimPrawn]

I love the way you bait the trap and then sit back. Start a thread on being holier than thou, and wait for the stampede of moral high horses. Brilliant Sas. Entertaining.

Yawn.

[BoredBloke]

...have milked the expenses system rotten, if you'd been an MP.

and in what sense does that make it right then? To criticise us for claiming that our expenses were tax avoidance while they were doing it to the nth degree is very hypocritical

[suityou01]

I didn't say I would have done the same, I said you would have done the same.

I love the way you bait the trap and then sit back. Start a thread on being holier than thou, and wait for the stampede of moral high horses. Brilliant Sas. Entertaining.

[sasguru]

I didn't say I would have done the same, I said you would have done the same.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

...have milked the expenses system rotten, if you'd been an MP.

No I wouldn't, and what's more, many MPs haven't. Those people who say "you'd have done the same" are like a sad alcohlic trying to get people to have a drink with him

[fckvwls]

I'd have taken millions - not a few pawltry thousand.

Me too. If you are going to steal, you might as well do it properly.

[NotAllThere]

I'd have taken millions - not a few pawltry thousand. These MPs are petty in their thefts from the public purse. They've such small minds.

[thelace]

My first job, the boss told me there's only two basic rules....

1) If I ask you to do something, it needs to be done but isn't that important, however if I TELL you to do something....

2) Don't falsify your expenses. It's instant dismissal and there's nothing I can do to back you up

Both sensible in my opinion

[Menelaus]

Agreed - Some people actually have a sense of right and wrong - these MP's seem to have misplaced that somewhere along the line..

As Francis Urquhart might have said, "You may think so, but I couldn't possibly comment."

[suityou01]

...have milked the expenses system rotten, if you'd been an MP.

have had my accountant milk the expenses system on my behalf

[cailin maith]

Bollocks

Agreed - Some people actually have a sense of right and wrong - these MP's seem to have misplaced that somewhere along the line..