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I may be wrong but I think it was Juvenal who asked, ‘Who is to judge the judges’, and the question is as relevant now as it was 2,000 years ago.
The question arises in my mind following this morning’s revelation that another member of the Commons Standards Committee is being accused of making the most out of his expenses in recent years by claiming on a second home even though he lives only ten miles from Parliament and then ‘flipping’ this.
Only last week did the Chairman of the committee step down while an inquiry was held into his expenses in recent years.
If we can’t trust the folk on the Commons Standards Committee, who can we trust?
As the man said, ‘Who is to judge the judges?’
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I may be wrong but I think it was Juvenal who asked, ‘Who is to judge the judges’, and the question is as relevant now as it was 2,000 years ago.
The question arises in my mind following this morning’s revelation that another member of the Commons Standards Committee is being accused of making the most out of his expenses in recent years by claiming on a second home even though he lives only ten miles from Parliament and then ‘flipping’ this.
Only last week did the Chairman of the committee step down while an inquiry was held into his expenses in recent years.
If we can’t trust the folk on the Commons Standards Committee, who can we trust?
As the man said, ‘Who is to judge the judges?’
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