#497* - EUkip Centres In EU EXPENSES SCANDAL
British eurosceptic claims £2m
27/05/2009
Expenses scandal engulfs Europe
By Fiachra Gibbons/RFI
The expenses scandal that has shaken Britain's political class and claimed the head of the Speaker of the House of Commons now threatens to engulf Europe.
Several British MPs have already been forced to resign from their parties for claiming exorbitant expenses for everything from the cost of cleaning the moats of their castles to hiring electricians to change a lightbulb.
One even billed the public purse for building a house for his ducks. The furore culminated with the departure of the Speaker of the Commons, Michael Martin, the first time such a normally uncontroversial establishment figure has been forced to step down for 300 years.
But now public anger is turning towards MEPs, whose liberal expenses regime has been long the target of the country's eurosceptics. Ironically, however, it is the leader of the UK Independence Party (pictured), who want to pull Britain out of Europe, who has been exposed as the worst offender.
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