Quote Originally Posted by Myrddraal View Post
For those of you still confused about what this expenses claim has to do with his sexuality, I'll try to explain what I've understood of the situation. Before 2006 it was perfectly OK for MPs to use the expenses system to pay rent to a partner. David Laws therefore used the expenses system to do just that. In 2006 the rules changed. Had David Laws stopped claiming these expenses, it would have been clear that his landlord was his partner and that he was therefore gay. He obviously thought he could hide all this and simply carry on as before, a foolish thing to think surely, but a long way from a selfish desire to enrich himself off the back of the taxpayer.
And they were prosecuting people for HB claims on that basis dating back before that time, so it used to be one law for ordinary people, another for MPs (literally). Good to know it's now the same for all people, rather than the law persecuting relatively poor people whilst excusing MPs.