Expenses: peers expenses cheats ‘were victims of racism’

[Hopeless Romantic]

Three Asian peers suspended from Parliament after cheating the taxpayer out of tens of thousands of pounds in wrongly claimed expenses are the victims of ‘racism,’ a Labour lord has alleged.

Lord Alli said that it “could not escape your attention” that the only peers who had been subjected to a full sleaze probe over their expenses were Asian.

He was speaking as peers debated whether to suspend Labour’s Baroness Uddin and Lord Paul, and Lord Bhatia, a cross bencher.

A formal sleaze inquiry this week found that they wrongly claimed a total of nearly £200,000 by deliberately registering properties they rarely or never stayed in as their “main home,” making them eligible for lucrative parliamentary overnight allowances.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/8078476/Expenses-peers-expenses-cheats-were-victims-of-racism.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. This had occurred to me too, to be honest

Not that I think they are necessarily innocent and simply 'framed'; but that white establishment peers who are very much One Of Us may have escaped censure for similar activities.

Also it does seem so far that while both Tories and Labourites have been in trouble over their expenses, it's mostly Labourites that get taken to court.

[SydneyDundee]

2. Complete and utter rubbish, not racism, they have transgressed, so they need to face the music....