“Administrative shortcomings!”

Ordinaily Derek Conway wouldn’t interest this blog. But the Tory MP, who has had the party whip withdrawn after defrauding the taxpayer by paying his sons to “work” as his parliamentary researchers has performed a great service nonetheless. Though,

Mr Conway was reprimanded by the Standards Committee after “no record” was found of Freddie Conway doing any work for him as a researcher. The student was paid more than £40,000 for his three-year employment period.

we should be exceedingly grateful to Mr Conway for his contribution to the Lexicon of Political Euphemism. According to the MP, using his parliamentary allowance as a family allowance to pay for his child’s boozing at Newcastle University was an unfortunate case of administrative shortcomings.

Priceless.