Is There A Great Deal Of Difference Between MPs And Looters?

During the expenses scandal, Theresa May told Question Time: “What happened from a lot of MPs was simply an assumption that the money was there”.
Labour MP Tom Harris put the mass theft down to a “Culture of entitlement”.
And Hazel Blears waved a cheque, offering to pay back all she’d taken, in the hope we could put it behind us.
In the cold light of day, is there a great deal of difference between MPs and looters – apart from the fact that the politicians needed the booty much less and should have known much better?
Most looters are being sent to a house of correction while most of the guilty MPs were sent back to the House of Commons to moralise about the underclass.
Shameless.
(Brian Reade)