‘Conscience’ money boxes to be put in Houses of Parliament
Lords and members have been encouraged to ‘take what money they need, according to their consciences’. The boxes will be topped up half-hourly. ‘Now that we have made sleaze a thing of the past,’ said David Cameron, ‘it is time for us to treat Lords and members with the respect they deserve as honest, principled and unselfish people’.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2010
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