From one of the latest YouGov polls: Does the expenses scandal… Makes me more likely to vote at the coming election, to express my anger at the way some politicians have behaved 14%< Makes me more likely NOT to vote, because politicians are much the same, and I don’t trust any of them any longer 12% Net: +2% Make no difference,
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 18th Feb 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
MPs are travelling back to their constituencies today, with voters prepared to express their anger over the expenses scandal.
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PoliticsCoUk on 15th May 2009 (via politics.co.uk)
VOTERS will go to the polls on Thursday seething with anger over the MPs' expenses scandal which has seen politicians pocket thousands of pounds in dodgy claims.
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Scotsman on 1st Jun 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Expenses Claims Scandal Chris Bryant claimed over £92,000 in expenses over the five years leading up to the 2009 scandal over MPs' expenses. During that time he flipped his second-home expenses twice, claimed mortgage interest expenses that started at £7,800 per year before rising (after flipping) to £12,000 per year. He also claimed £6,400 in stamp duty and other fees...
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AndrewNutt on 19th Jun 2009 (via andrewnutt.blogspot.com)
I will be going to this protest on Saturday in London to peacefully, but publicly, register my disgust at the expenses scandal. I shall be there from 12pm, probably with my partner but not in any V get up, and it would be nice to see a few other libertarians there too. I cannot emphasise enough how important it is that we publicly express our feelings about this rotten parliament. Because if enoug...
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LPUK on 18th May 2009 (via lpuk.blogspot.com)
A quick follow-up to my post with YouGov’s party I.D. figures as I’ve now got ComRes’s equivalent figures, these taken from its penultimate election poll: Party I.D. Labour 32.5% (YouGov), 39% (ComRes) Conservatives 28.5% (YouGov), 35% (ComRes) Lib Dem 12% (YouGov), 17% (ComRes) Measuring underlying party I.D, as opposed to current voting intention, is a
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 27th Jun 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
GORDON Brown has been ordered to pay back taxpayers more than £12,000 as the expenses scandal returned to plague the Commons on the first day after the long summer recess.
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Scotsman on 13th Oct 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Today's Telegraph carries 11 pages on the MPs expenses 'scandal', which they seem to be releasing as slowly as they can. At this rate it will take them roughly 30 days to get through all the MPs. In my local Tesco's corner shop there were two stacks of Telegraphs (unprecedented), shunting the Mirror and Express out of the way. Remind me who is milking this expenses thing? Is it...
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TheWardmanWire on 9th May 2009 (via mattwardman.com)
The UK Independence party appeared to prosper from Tory supporters switching their votes to express displeasure about both the parliamentary expenses scandal and Britain's continued membership of the EU
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FT on 8th Jun 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
David Cameron's Commons aide has become the first casualty of the expenses scandal, issuing his resignation this morning.
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PoliticsCoUk on 14th May 2009 (via politics.co.uk)
Britain's expenses scandal claims another victim Michael Martin, the speaker of the British house of commons, has resigned after being criticized for his handling of the ongoing lawmaker expenses scandal. He is the highest-profile politician to resign so far. The widening scandal began after the Daily Telegraph obtained a disk detailing expense reports by parliamentarians including tenn...
