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Revealed: Expenses watchdog suspended official credit cards belonging to 377 MPs including Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson and 9 CABINET MINISTERS!

Nearly 400 MPs! dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…

2/. The watchdog tried to resist FOI applications but a judge ruled the disclosure WAS in the public interest.

Last year the expenses bill was £117.4million – equivalent to £180,000 per MP. This includes accommodation, travel, hotels, subsistence and staffing costs.

3/. “Nine MPs have had their card suspended more than ten times over the past three years, including prominent Tory backbencher Damian Collins and constitution minister Chloe Smith.”

MORE THAN 10 TIMES IN 3 YEARS! And they are supposed to run a country!

4/. “Other Cabinet ministers, or MPs who sit in Cabinet meetings, to have had their cards suspended include Stephen Barclay, Greg Clark, Chris Grayling, Robert Buckland, Claire Perry, Rory Stewart, Jeremy Wright and David Mundell.”

Amber Rudd is a serial offender.

5/. “Sir Alistair Graham, the former chairman of the committee on standards in public life, said: ‘It shows there is either something fundamentally wrong with the system, or we’ve got a bunch of highly incompetent slovenly MPs who can’t keep to the rules.”

6/ “The rest of the nation would only expect to have to comply in similar circumstances.’ ... He added: ‘If MPs can’t deal with this rather narrow sphere of finances, why should we trust them in dealing with the nation’s finances?’

Now add to that the routine & appalling lying