Yes, I do mean expenses - MP's expenses that is. In my working life, if someone is recruited to undertake a full scrutiny and to report back, their brief is carefully prepared so that all areas of concern are dealt with. Nick Clegg is right to point out that the main issue - "flipping" of homes to bamboozle the tax man - has not been dealt with. If the review has not been thorough then it must continue - the centre of Government must not be as difficult to clean up as the Augean stables of old.
Senior Tory backbencher, Douglas Carswell MP this week declared that those who believe that climate change is happening are part of a "lunatic consensus" - how green are the Tories really? Watch this space!
it seems that the HMRC Inland Revenue are specifically following up actions by MPs, including 'flipping' that may involve capital gains tax...
ReplyDeleteYes indeed - the potential for gain at the expense of the tax payer is far greater than any duck house or trouser press!!
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