The so-called 'Culture Secretary', Maria Miller, is someone of whom I'd never heard before she was hoisted from obscurity to a seat in the Cabinet.
While in her job, she has done nothing of note other than upset the newspaper industry. Now it transpires that she'd also been fiddling the MPs expenses system for all it was worth over a protracted period, getting the taxpayers to cough up for the mortgage on a house inhabited by her parents before selling the same house for a mere £1m profit. When caught, her MP colleagues reduced the independently determined punishment to almost nothing and Miller's apology in the House of Commons was an exhibition in arrogance and lack of sincerity. For reasons known only to himself, David Cameron has supported her throughout this shameful episode and now refuses to sack her.
If I'd been caught doing anything similar in my career, I'd have been sacked, probably had my pension withheld and quite possibly gone to prison. Why are MPs treated so differently ?
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