Shame of MEPs expense cover up

I'm always a bit sceptical turning to The Metro for my news but if this story is correct then it is really quite outrageous.

In short, MEPs have been illegally using public money to make private contributions into their pension funds. And now they have voted to block an audit report that would have stated so.

Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies calls it right when he calls the move "shameful" and bringing "discredit and dishonour upon the entire parliament".

Let's think of this logically: An audit is conducted to provide the stakeholders with information on how their business or interest is performing.

In a private business, if an audit was blocked from the shareholders there would be the most violent of outrages.

And yet, this is exactly what is happening here. We are the stakeholders and we are being prevented from seeing how our European Parliament is conducting itself.

I urge people to try to find the list of who voted against making this audit report publicly available and badgering your local MEP as to why they voted as they did if you disagree with their stance.