Tuesday, 19 May 2009

Can someone come up with a decent name for the "MPs' expenses" story please?

"MPs' expenses" itself doesn’t really cut the mustard – you can’t even put ‘gate’ on the end, it doesn’t sound right.

If you were going down that road then ‘snoutgate’ or ‘troughgate’ might be a better fit – but the whole ‘gate’ thing is a little tired.

Anyway, if I’m going to keep writing about this over the next few days, and it seems I am, then I need a new name.

Any suggestions?
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11 comments:

  1. BigBossMan19 May 2009 at 08:25

    The Great Leeching Scandal - not snappy enough perhaps.

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  2. Anonymous19 May 2009 at 08:37

    Can't we make it a whole "MPs..." series.
    First MPs' expenses, the MPs' back-stabbing, then MPs' sex-lives?

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  3. Robin19 May 2009 at 11:47

    Parliamentary Pirates!

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  4. Anonymous19 May 2009 at 12:06

    Profligate.

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  5. merrowman19 May 2009 at 15:18

    The ROTTEN PARLIAMENT

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  6. Robin19 May 2009 at 16:02

    Expenses Cheats! - - - as in Benefits Cheats that the attack dogs of these rich MPs are "closing in on" to persecute the poor.

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  7. Anonymous19 May 2009 at 16:27

    Can't help with that yet. But with an eye to historical naming of parliament, The Disreputable Parliament has a dignified ring.

    Of course, if Brown is forced into an early election it would just become The Dissed Parliament.

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  8. Theo Blackwell's blog19 May 2009 at 16:32

    Trouser-gate

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  9. Peter Thomas19 May 2009 at 19:49

    Trough-minster.

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  10. Key bored warrior.19 May 2009 at 20:49

    BISTOGATE. As posted by me....

    http://keyboredwarrior.blogspot.com/

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  11. Farzaneh and Roger25 May 2009 at 13:03

    The House Rip-off Gang.
    The Hand in the Till Affair.
    The Pirates of Parliament.

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