After a scandal in the UK concerning MPs' bogus (and apparently fraudulent) expense claims broke in the Daily Telegraph, one MP named in the piece said in an interview that he was paying back the money he had claimed for 'fittings, furniture and household items'; he added "I just want those people I represent to know, whether they vote for me or not, that I have personal integrity".
So let me see if I have this right: if you dip your hand in the public coffers and then return the money after you are caught, this is integrity?
I would have though that integrity would have mean not committing the offense in the first place.
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