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MPs' expenses: an independent regulator and a general election Politics The Guardian: "What is Gordon Brown proposing now?
To deal with retrospective misdemeanours, the prime minister has been calling for an independent cross-party group to look at the expense submissions of all MPs over four years, and force them to pay back improper claims as part of a 'radical overhaul'. But to make the rules crystal clear, yesterday Brown announced plans to set up an independent parliamentary standards regulator responsible for pay and allowances, investigating abuses, and imposing financial sanctions – a stronger entity than the committee chaired by Touhig and, crucially, far more autonomous. The body would not have the power to impose disciplinary sanctions for misconduct."

How tame, how lame.

We have a solution, let the Financial Services Authority and the Financial Ombudsman Service sort this lot out, sole trader IFAs are hounded to the grave, well actually until what is left of their estates is dispersed, there are no time limits and they are judged on what is known today, fully retrospective and wholly unfair.

MPs voted for that, we doubt that they would vote for a piece of legislation which punishes them and which contravenes Article 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998

Evan Owen
The IFA Defence Union
http://www.ifadu.co.uk/