MP's Expenses Row

By Glenda Cole
"None of us could have missed the current scandal in the UK of MPs expenses. The reputation of Westminster has been badly tarnished with current confidence in Mps at an all time low. The history of how these expenses came to be exposed goes back to 4th January 2005 when a journalist made a freedom-of-information request for MPs' full Additional Costs Allowances. On that day transiting Mars, ruler of the 11th house of parliament, was conjunct Saturn and a Mercury/Pluto conjunction squared the UK Mercury. The request was rejected and there followed a long battle between the Journalists and the House of Commons authorities which was lost on the 16th May 2008 as transiting Neptune squared Venus, ruling planet of the Government. Mercury went retrograde on May 7th 2009, on May the 8th, as transiting Jupiter opposed the UK Moon/Neptune conjunction, the current hullabaloo began with the Telegraph publishing the first in a series of articles that exposed some of the expenses claimed by MPs."
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