Today’s “The World This Weekend” included a long item on the MP expense scandal and looked in particular at voter reaction in Stevenage (Barbara Follett) and St Albans. Both Anne Main and I were interviewed for the programme while we were at St Albans City Station on Friday evening. There were vox pops with local [...]
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BBC Radio 4 “The World This Weekend” on the MP expenses scandal
February 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
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Debate on MP expenses
September 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I have just spoken at Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth on the issue of MP expenses. Here is what I said:
Most people don’t have an expense account, never have, never will. Those relatively few that do are used to proper checking and monitoring as a matter of course.
I ran large teams at director level in [...]
How can a divided and embittered Conservative party be trusted to stand up for St Albans?
August 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Not for nothing is August called the silly season. But events in the St Albans Conservative Association have been nothing less than astonishing. Mrs Main has fought off her fellow Conservatives for now, but at the cost of losing her constituency chairman and with the Deputy Chairman reported as “considering his position”.
And we [...]
Nothing beats a British bucket and spade holiday
August 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Cadgwith on the Lizard peninsula is a sublimely beautiful place. The weather has been mostly kind and we have managed to swim most days – the water is colder than Normandy/Brittany where we went last week for my niece’s birthday but much warmer than the north of Scotland where we normally jump in and jump [...]
Not all politicians are the same – will the St Albans Member please note
March 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Sandy's blog
Yet again MPs are in the mire because of the astonishing behaviour of a Labour minister. The “mistaken” claim for two adult films just adds fuel to the fire set by Jacqui Smith’s dodgy claim that her sister’s home was her main residence. Last week it was another Labour minister Tony McNulty claiming [...]
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Shouldn’t we be allowed to know what MPs spend taxpayers’ money on?
March 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
It is the time of year when I knock on a lot of doors. I am struck by the incredibly low regard in which politicians as a class are now held. The recent shenanigans over MP expenses have created a corrosive perception of “snouts in the trough”.
People find it frankly incredible that MPs could [...]
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