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Originally Posted by Eric
Now I'm a little confused  Aren't all MP's expenses in public domain? |
They are now.....but not because they placed them there. It was all due to investigative journalism and some pretty ****ed off employees in the MP's expenses office. But those expenses are still historic. What people want to see is what their representatives are claiming on an ongoing basis - or at least I do.
Graham Jones is going to be fighting a difficult election come May of next year - or possibly even earlier. While I have no truck with PM Brown, I only see the Tories as being as bad...but then that is the government. The important thing for Hyndburn is that the Borough has a good local guy in the legislature and it is unlikely the Conservatives will come up with a better local name
The electorate has fallen out of love with all political parties - not least because of the expenses scandal -and so all I am suggesting to GJ is that if he does want to pick up those extra votes to win the constituency he should make a transparency commitment on his expenses.