>in the UK where I currently live, politicians are going into prisons for faking a couple of thousands of pounds as expense and profiting from that. Thats more

>in the UK where I currently live, politicians are going into prisons for faking a couple of thousands of pounds as expense and profiting from that. Thats more of a distraction than anything else. For the juicy stuff, look into the spending obligations on PFI contracts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_finance_initiative#Development_of_PFI_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_finance_initiative#Dev... https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtE8tc3zkyCLdFVBNWFGbGdCeVd1YWhkcDRFRFlTaHc&hl=en https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtE8tc3zkyCLdFVBNWF... http://www.theguardian.com/politics/datablog/2010/nov/19/pfi-public-finance#data http://www.theguardian.com/politics/datablog/2010/nov/19/pfi... The UK does its corruption over the table.