Now This One Made Me Smile

[youngmafbog]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2524181/MPs-compulsory-honesty-training-learn-difference-right-wrong.html

Will it work?

I doubt it.

[joggerjayne]

The MPs who attend the course will just nick all the pens, and over-claim on their taxi fares to the venue.

[aelmpvw]

''The courses will be modelled on those taken by bankers and lawyers''

now that made me smile

[anotheoldgit]

They should be made to hold a regular weekly surgery in their constituencies, then they would soon know where they are going wrong, the public would soon tell them.

[LazyGun]

You have to love the idea that anyone can keep a straight face whilst recommending that our MPs need to take basic Ethics lessons so they can distinguish right from wrong ;)

Also highlighting Bankers especially as some kind of moral compass is particularly ironic given the global financial meltdown and ongoing shenanigans over misselling allegations and interest rates manipulation.

[ToraToraTora]

It's not the MPs that are the problem it's the electorate that put them there. The country gets the MPs it deserves.

[aelmpvw]

^ ^ ^ i've been voting for forty five years and never got the mp i wanted

[LazyGun]

"It's not the MPs that are the problem it's the electorate that put them there. The country gets the MPs it deserves"

Ahh, so its the electorates fault that some MPs are more concerned with padding our their expenses at the taxpayers expense! How very- pro-British- of you, to blame the electorate...