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The blazing row about MPs expenses is an unsavoury and dismal situation, for sure – but there are important Systems lessons to be drawn from the debacle.
In the UK a stream of embarrassing revelations about highly questionable expenses claims has meant that Members of Parliament have spent the week universally condemning ‘the [MPs expenses] system’ and calling for “a complete overhaul of the system.”
Firstly, the MPs now rail against the much-maligned ‘system’ in the apparent ignorance that the ‘system’ is nothing more than their own behaviour, which has previously escaped public scrutiny and operated with almost absolute impunity beyond self-defined and self-policed ‘rules.’ Continue reading article »
