Notes des frais

Seen in le monde:

Ce qui est drôle, avec ce scandale des notes de frais, c’est qu’on a
le même chaque semaine dans le Canard (sinon pire).

le Canard being the French Private Eye style newspaper, which every week reveals French MPs doing even more crooked things than the UK MPS, to a collective gallic shrug from the general population who go back to fiddling their tax returns.

and in the Economist:

Gloom for Britain’s Labour government became outright humiliation when the party was pushed into third place by the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which advocates withdrawal from the European Union. UKIP was a big beneficiary of British voter rage at an expenses scandal that has left the British Parliament reeling. This is ironic, given that of the 12 UKIP members of the European Parliament elected in 2004, one was later jailed for fraud and a second is now facing trial for money laundering and false accounting.