Mary Jackson
2009-05-23 05:59:45
Compared with, say, Italy, let alone Middle Eastern or African countries, British MPs are squeaky clean. But so what? In those countries everyone’s on the fiddle and nobody pays tax if they can help it. In Britain, by contrast, anyone who fiddles their tax by as much as the cost of a sandwich faces fines and even imprisonment. Also, we are one of the highest taxed people in the world.
We taxpayers earn our money honestly, and pay everything we owe. To see it stolen and squandered by MPs – and all parties are equally to blame – is outrageous. No wonder we’re furious and cynical to boot.
