edesignuk
Sep 25, 2009, 03:31 AM
Thread reference: "Right Honorable" MP's, and their shady expenses (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=699592)
The expenses scandal began because the mole who caused the leak was angry about inadequate equipment for the armed forces, the Daily Telegraph said.
The newspaper says staff who worked in secrecy on MPs' receipts were guarded by servicemen on leave between tours.
They became angry after seeing MPs' lavish claims when soldiers had poor equipment, prompting a civil servant to leak the story, the paper says.
But Gordon Brown said he did not understand the motivation for the leak.
The unidentified mole is quoted as saying the soldiers' accounts of their poor equipment prompted him to leak the information.
According to the Telegraph, he claims that many of the service personnel were moonlighting so they could buy better kit. BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8274041.stm).
The expenses scandal began because the mole who caused the leak was angry about inadequate equipment for the armed forces, the Daily Telegraph said.
The newspaper says staff who worked in secrecy on MPs' receipts were guarded by servicemen on leave between tours.
They became angry after seeing MPs' lavish claims when soldiers had poor equipment, prompting a civil servant to leak the story, the paper says.
But Gordon Brown said he did not understand the motivation for the leak.
The unidentified mole is quoted as saying the soldiers' accounts of their poor equipment prompted him to leak the information.
According to the Telegraph, he claims that many of the service personnel were moonlighting so they could buy better kit. BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8274041.stm).
