Lobbydog...

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?

11 comments:

BigBossMan said...

The Great Leeching Scandal - not snappy enough perhaps.

Anonymous said...

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

Robin said...

Parliamentary Pirates!

Anonymous said...

Profligate.

merrowman said...

The ROTTEN PARLIAMENT

Robin said...

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

Anonymous said...

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.

Theo Blackwell's blog said...

Trouser-gate

Peter Thomas said...

Trough-minster.

Key bored warrior. said...

BISTOGATE. As posted by me....

http://keyboredwarrior.blogspot.com/

Farzaneh and Roger said...

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

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