Tories in the trough again.

[Gromit]

"The Tory leader in the European Parliament quit the post in shame last night after he was embroiled in a sleaze scandal.

Giles Chichester stepped down after admitting he broke Brussels rules. He had channelled more than �440,000 in political expenses to his own company.

The MEP had tried to brush off the payment of taxpayers' money to a firm of which he was a paid director as a 'whoops-a-daisy' moment. "

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-102450 4/Tory-MEP-leader-quits-expenses-scandal-admit ting-having-family-payroll.html

And another one...

"But the spotlight now falls on chief whip Den Dover, who has denied any wrong-doing in paying his wife and daughter a reported �750,000 for work over nine years.

Mr Dover told BBC News he had done nothing wrong in paying his wife and daughter a reported �758,000 through an outside company for secretarial and support services over nine years."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7439351 .stm

Are there more scoundrels in the Conservative Party, or are the Labour and Liberal MEPs too dim to do these scams?

[mike1222]

We all know that ALL politicians of whatever persuasion whether they be in Brussels or the UK, are bent and have their snouts in the trough, but who votes them into office? Only gullible fools I would suggest!