Culture Secretary

[Farriercm]

Whats all this in the news today about the Culture Secretary,Maria Miller caught with her fingers in the till?.It cant be true surely ...

[sandyRoe]

Is this a hangover from the time of the duck house and moats scandal? She could hardly have been silly enough to continue with something dubious in the same vein, could she?

[wolf63]

Do you have a link to a news story?

[Jomlett]

Maria Miller made £1m-plus from home at centre of expenses inquiry - http://gu.com/p/3zxyh/tw

[sandyRoe]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/10729984/Maria-Miller-to-have-to-repay-thousands-of-pounds-and-apologise-over-expenses-claims.html

[youngmafbog]

Won't be culture secretary for long would be my guess.

[douglas9401]

Party workers were seen down the local market buying one large pail of whitewash, one broom, one rug and a tin of medicinal Brasso, necks for the use of.

[sir.prize]

Culture secretary will come under renewed scrutiny after the Telegraph says she will repay some money and apologise.

Anyone else wouldn't get the chance to repay and apologise.

[Farriercm]

Surely this is Fraud?.

[sandyRoe]

If you or I did something like that it would be. But many politicians seem to have the knack of escaping such charges.

[Farriercm]

So all she has over claimed then buddy is 5 grand, Thats not a lot really for an MP to fiddle is it?. Peanuts to an MP,

[Farriercm]

Wonder how much you are allowed to steal, before it is classed as too much??

[ludwig]

It's nice to know that she'll pay back some money and apologise. I tried to do that when I stole some money from my employers. They still sacked me and had me prosecuted.

[DaisyNonna]

Please define culture secretary. Does she list scientific experiments?

[Farriercm]

Daisy, I am with you , would love to know what her job description is?

[lady-janine]

culture secretary = reallocating the blame and reallocating funds.

[Farriercm]

Nice One Janine.