Crafty

This rumour of a story from Guido

http://www.order-order.com/2009/04/new-mps-scam-breaking/

MPs are renting out buy-to-let properties that they own, to members of their own staff, to whom they authorise payments out of parliamentary expenses. Laundering their expenses via their staff back into their own pockets.

Part of me thinks "heh, that's crafty", but another part thinks that the UK's current crop of elected politicians are a bunch of cunts who should be hounded out of office and pelted with horseshit, then the rules changed so that they only receive median wage, no second homes allowance and all further expense claims popping up on a twitter-style RSS feed.

Also by-elections triggered by a 5,000 sig petition.