MPs' expenses: Queen's composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies to write opera


	MPs' expenses: Queen's composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies to write opera

tabsey

6-24-2009 8:35 AM

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6-24-2009 12:34 PM

tanyamm

Well of course they'll want free tickets, after all they aren't the ones being lampooned are they.

6-24-2009 6:57 PM

Kelika

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The Queen's composer, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, has disclosed that he is 
  writing a comic opera about the MPs' expenses scandal, which may feature 
  duck houses and moats. 
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Sir Peter, Master of the Queen's Music, said he was "outraged" by 
  the disclosures in <I>The Daily Telegraph</I> about the <A href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/">expenses</A> 
   system and described politicians who exploited the system as a "public 
  disgrace".
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The musician was speaking at the St Magnus Festival in Orkney, where he 
  praised the newspaper for "doing for democracy what the Government had 
  failed to do".
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He also used the occasion to lambast Gordon Brown for "wrecking" 
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