borro.com rides to MPs' rescue
Sunday, 18 October 2009
Read the full article at The Independent
At last, help is near for our downtrodden and persecuted MPs. Online pawnbroker borro.com says it will offer any MP struggling to repay expenses a loan at half the standard interest rate. Paul Aitken, borro.com's founder, said: "MPs are well-heeled individuals [too right!] who are faced with extraneous expenses who maybe don't have the liquid assets to cover the immediate cost."
Indeed, a duck house or John Lewis chest of drawers is hardly a liquid asset, but I wonder if Jacqui Smith's husband will be availing himself of this different type of pawn?
