The expenses scandal a few years ago seriously undermined Gordon Brown’s tenure of 10 Downing Street. This shows that greed and corruption is still very much alive amongst Tory MPs, despite what Grant Shapps and Cameron may say to the contrary. And Cameron’s government should be subject to the same public outcry and anger that faced Brown when this issue first appeared. It should not be allowed to go away, and the Tories should not get away with ‘drawing a line under it.’
Found on Facebook: Members of the public on all the main social media are queueing up to take a pop at former DWP minister and benefit fraudster Maria Miller. How long will David Cameron delay sacking her, and how weak will he seem by the time he gets round to it?
In comparison to recent events in this saga, what follows is light relief.
A so-called “rogue” Twitter user commandeered a government feed to post satirical comments about the Maria Miller expenses scandal, yesterday evening. (Saturday)
The three tweets appeared on the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s feed, where they were picked up and shared widely before government watchdogs had a chance to hush them up. The offending tweets have since been deleted from the DCMS feed.
“Seriously though guys which one of us hasn’t embezzled and cheated the taxpayer? #FreeMariaMiller,” ran the first tweet.
This was swiftly followed by one…
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