Category: Foreign Laws

Anne Applebaum publishes her take on the controversy in Britain surrounding expenses of Members of Parliament. There is a degree of unfairness about this scandal. With the exception of a handful of real cheaters and tax-dodgers, most politicians were operating within a legal system.

The Times weighs-in on the scandal ripping across Britain.  There is no excuse, of course, for this misuse of public funds. Members do have a legitimate compliant that they are paid too little: less than $100,000 a year, compared with about $170,000 for a member of the United States Congress. Britain’s taxpayers want changes. They […]

The Speaker of the House of Commons has resigned in connection with a scandal involving apparent abuse of expenses. For the first time in three centuries, the speaker of the House of Commons has resigned — the biggest casualty in a widening scandal in which lawmakers expensed such things as installing a chandelier or cleaning […]