Rejected petition Mp's and Peers Guilty of Expenses Fraud to be Punished the Same as a Regular Person

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All MP's and Peers that have been convicted of falsely claiming expenses to be stripped of any titles and banned indefinitely from Parliament/House of Lords and be made to pay any outstanding amounts immediately. We want them to be punished just the same as a regular person would be that has committed fraud.

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Date submitted 21 November 2011
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