This should go down as a classic moment in British politics:
"A 'furious' David Cameron last night forced a former Conservative minister to stand down as an MP at the next general election after he admitted claiming 1, 645 Pounds for a floating 'duck island' in his garden.
Sir Peter Viggers, a Northern Ireland Office minister in the late 1980s, was told by the Tory leader that he would be stripped of the Conservative whip immediatly unless he agreed to retire.
Cameron acted after the daily Telegraph revealed that Viggers, the MP for Gosport since 1974, had claimed 32 000 pounds in gardening expenses over three years at his Hampshire home. This included a claim for a floating duck island designed to protect his ducks from foxes. This was rejected by the Commons authorities.
Viggers also claimed for 28 tonnes of manure..."
Nicholas Watt in the Guardian
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