General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Up until relatively recent times, MP's pay was traditionally very low, and the MP's topped up their income with very generous 'expenses' allowances, (fiddles) they could claim for anything

And they did

A right little gravy train

But greed got the better of them, and they went too far, claining fro bird tables etc and the papers got hold off it, the greedy idiots had spoiled it for the rest of them

The MP's expenses scandal.

Some of them ended up in jail

So they 'upped' the MP's salary, but 'downed' the MP's expenses claims, and probably made them worse off for it ...........