I read yesterday that David Laws, the Liberal Democrat who was, for a very short time, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has reportedly been found guilty of a number of breaches of the rules governing MPs' expenses, including claiming some £40,000 in rent that he paid for living in a house owned by his partner, who also lived there.
It was reported that, while Laws has been deemed guilty of these various breaches, he did not do anything that was intended to benefit either himself or his partner.
Er, sorry, but did I get that right ? He claimed £40,000 that he paid to his partner, but this was not intended to benefit either of them : who is kidding whom ? At a time when the rest of us are increasingly subject to draconian penalties for the smallest perceived infringement of a multitude of recently created 'offences', the fraudulent extraction of £40,000 from the public purse is all but brushed under the carpet. This is a clear case of 'one law for MPs and another for the general population'.
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