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Greed is Their Game.(International)(political corruption)(Brief article)

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Byline: William Underhill

These should be dark days for David Cameron, Britain's Conservative Party leader. A spending scandal has revealed some spectacularly shameful details about expenses claimed by his legislators. Among the rule-bending bills submitted to taxpayers: spending for a helipad, swimming-pool repairs and moat-dredging. Though the revelations have hit the Labour Party as well, you'd think they'd have hurt the Tories more by reviving the upper-class, out-of-touch image Cameron has tried to dispel.

So why is Cameron still so far ahead in the polls? Support for Conservatives ...

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