June 30, 2009
If MPs are returning their ill gotten gains should the government follow suit?
A letter in the Scotsman questions whether following the scandal involving MPs expenses claims in the British Parliament, the government should follow its own lead & return illegally acquired assets too.
From:
Scotsman
Point of view: Return
Published Date: 29 June 2009NOW that the flippers in the mother of all parliaments are queuing to pay back their ill-gotten gains (your report, 20 June), can they not be persuaded to return the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece?
George B Anderson
Dunfermline, Fife
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