So if you falsify your expenses claiming rent you aren't entitled too, or you take your husband away on a policitical visit and claim this on expenses, you get promoted in Government. If people did this in the real world outside politics they would get locked up, fined, have a criminal record and would find it impossible to get a job thereafter.  If a policitian is guilty of expense fraud they should be barred from being an MP, or holding any post in Government. They should certainly be stripped of any peerage or honours. Cameron is certainly believes in double standards. Roll on 2015.