<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/31b89d6f-ce3e-483d-991e-8f983e366288/F239F995-E9C5-48E7-AC14-FC311B660716/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/brown-somehow-manages-to-make-total-arse-of-mps%27-expenses-200904221717/" href="http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/brown-somehow-manages-to-make-total-arse-of-mps%27-expenses-200904221717/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thedailymash.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/brown-somehow-manages-to-make-total-arse-of-mps%27-expenses-200904221717/"><DIV> Under the old scheme MPs would have to submit receipts to the Commons authorities, thereby allowing the public to at least speculate on the titles and content of the pornography.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/brown-somehow-manages-to-make-total-arse-of-mps%27-expenses-200904221717/"><DIV> Julia Cook, professor of politics at Reading University, said: "I've been up all night racking my brains and I cannot, for the life of me, work out how he managed to fuck this up.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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