The Tip of the Iceberg : Hoon, Byers, Moran & Hewitt

As if these four and their dodgy shenanigans wasn't bad enough,  there is a story on the BBC website which names and shames all three MP's in the Borough of Barnet :-


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8580183.stm


I suppose it is too much to ask for the two of them who haven't stood down for the next election to sling their hooks and give someone who isn't tainted by continual scandals a chance? I'm not making a party political point here. Both the local Labour and Tory parties have plenty of members who are fine upstanding citizens and who would have no problem reading the rulebook and following it. It would do their parties chances a power of good to get a clean pair of hands. One of these members is a frontbencher in their party and the other is a member of the Standards and priveliges committee. I don't know any grassroots activist of any party (and I know quite a few from all three parties) who thinks this sort of behaviour is acceptable. It undermines trust in all politicians, it undermines trust in democracy and it has to stop now. There is going to be an election soon, so why not use the opportunity to chop away the dead wood. A local party worker for one of these MP's told me recently that the MP had suggested that the expenses scandal had blown over and would be forgotten by the time people actually had to vote. I do hope that MP was wrong.