More revelations on MP expenses today. It keeps on coming.
It is horrific, but I also can't understand why weeks into this affair, MPs are still being undone by this.
Today, it's not like David Cameron's Etonian pal Bill Wiggin, or Geoff Hoon, have been caught unawares. They've had more than ample time to review their records and come clean before this was dragged out by the Daily Telegraph.
Surely any spin doctor would have told them that it's better to release news on your own terms rather than have someone else expose it.
But clearly they and many other MPs who we've still to learn about, haven't learned the lesson. What the public are looking for is honesty and transparency.
Today's lot, and tomorrow's, have sat around hoping that the Daily Telegraph wouldn't notice them.
It is not good enough and the public deserve better.
I also wonder how the rest of the media have let so many MPs stay silent on the matter even till now. So many of them have been hiding in the corner hoping this will all blow over. I would have thought that some good reporters somewhere would be trying to steal a march on the Telegraph asking every MP who hasn't been covered yet, whether all their affairs are in order, or whether they'd like to hold their hands up to their constituents and declare anything.
That's what I've been doing with Mohammad Sarwar, and we wait for a response.
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