Rod Liddle says that the Corporation has no right to adopt a position on an issue such as David Maclean’s private member’s bill, and should stick to reporting the facts
A BBC foreign correspondent was once sacked by the Corporation for claiming expenses fraudulently. What alerted the BBC accountants to a possible transgression was this chap’s claim for the cost of a lawnmower and the services of a gardener, given the fact that he lived in a fourth-floor apartment. I don’t know what he’s doing now, the journalist. Perhaps he’s your MP.
Maybe he changed his name and is now called David Maclean, the Cumbrian Conservative MP who has attracted much public opprobrium by introducing the private member’s bill which exempted himself and his colleagues from the Freedom of Information Act. Meaning that they won’t be required to disclose the full details of their own expenses claims.
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