What’s The Difference Between A Yakuza And A British MP?

Well

One is a member of a highly organised group with a strict code of ethics and a sense of personal honour. That realises that they are still part of the nation as a whole and attempts to help his fellow citizens during a time of continuing crisis.

From Society's Shadows, Yakuza Among First With Relief Supplies

Tons of relief goods have been delivered to victims of Japan's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami from a dark corner of society: the "yakuza" organised crime networks. Yakuza groups have been sending trucks from the Tokyo and Kobe regions to deliver food, water, blankets and toiletries to evacuation centres in northeast Japan, the area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami which have left at least 27,000 dead and missing.

The other is a British MP

Parent MPs Get Cash As Child Benefits Are Cut

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority - the new Commons watchdog - published relaxed expenses rules which will see the overall bill rise by millions of pounds. The concessions to MPs follow complaints that the existing system - set up after the expenses scandal which rocked Westminster - has been "anti-family" and bound up in red tape. Under the new rules:

MPs will be able to claim up to £2,500 in accommodation for each child up to the age of 18. The current age limit is five.
31 MPs in places like Milton Keynes, Luton, Reading and Guildford will be able to claim full accommodation costs of £19,900. They had only been allowed "London weighting" of up to £5,090.
Official credit cards can be used for hotels, stationery and office telephones rather than just travel.The budget for staff costs is going up by about £5,000.

Not A Yakuza

Disclaimer: Kitano ‘Beat’ Takeshi is not a Yakuza, but has made films about The Yakuza, the picture is for illustration only, he is the Japanese Stephen Fry, but way cooler, if he was a temperature he would be Absolute Zero.

.h/t for the Yakuza story to Brother Pavlov’s Cat