British MPs - rapscallions?

[nel]

The following received by email - is this bollox or not?!? I find it hard to believe that 84 MP have been collared for drunk driving in the last year - funnily enough the stats on fraud, bankruptcy and so on don't seem as unlikely.

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Can you imagine working for an organisation that has a little more than 500
employees and has the following statistics?

29 have been accused of spouse abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess which organisation this is?



It's the 535 members of the Houses of Parliament, the same group that cranks
out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.....

[john75]

Only there are 651 MPs where did those figures come from ?

[eharding]

Don't the numbers members in the US House & Senate add up to 535?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Is the spelling of "checks" a clue?

[srebbe64]

Can't be real, the true figures for MP's would be much higher!