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Porkmungous!

June 18, 2009 12:00 AM

PorkmungousThe Daily Telegraph names Newcastle East's Labour MP in its list of the 32 MPs who claimed the maximum £400 a month allowance for food on expenses. Nick Brown claimed the maximum each month without submitting receipts and including when the Commons was in recess.

They illustrate the story with a lovely picture, which is only slightly marred by the fact that the two chaps in the foreground are both Lib Dems.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5561988/MPs-expenses-more-than-30-MPs-charged-the-taxpayer-4800-annually-for-food.html

Picture credit: Daily Telegraph

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