'We should watch bankers as closely as we do politicians' says Jackie Ashley in The Guardian

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  • guardian.co.uk, Sunday 7 February 2010 22.00 GMT
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Who's above the law? Not MPs accused of expenses fiddling, it seems. Today a trio of big-hitters – Alan Johnson, William Hague and Ken Clarke – flung derision on the idea that MPs being charged by the Crown Prosecution Service should be protected by parliament's ancient rights. Though their case still has to be argued, it looks as if they have very little support at the top of politics.

This is as it should be. The 1689 Bill of Rights is indeed one of our founding constitutional documents, but its clause on protecting MPs from criminal prosecution was meant for their debates and voting procedures, not for arguments over the personal misuse of public money. Scrutiny of politics is being changed for ever by public anger over the expenses row, and before that by freedom of information law and websites as a way of scrutinising an MP's voting and speaking record.

via guardian.co.uk

Jackie Ashley is absolutely right - why haven't we been properly protected from bankers?

Why haven't the bankers been brought to book?

Click on link to read her article.

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