Sorry isn't a four letter word

The Sunday Telegraph'srevelations over MPs' expenses claims have left many politicians' reputations severely bruised if not in tatters. And the bad headlines have just kept on coming.

It has been so bad that our glorious leader has had to find it within himself to apologise on behalf of the entire spectrum of those fine upstanding representatives in our wonderful British Parliament.

No politician should have been surprised at this as they all knew, months in advance, that a request under the Freedom of Information Act had been lodged to reveal every single receipt that every MP had claimed.

That there was an attempt to block their release is bad enough, but not being prepared for the inevitable media backlash is further evidence of their evident arrogance and demonstrates how far removed their lives are from those that they represent.

Panic stations, rebuttals, accusation and counter-accusation all add further grist to the mill of those who want to believe that politics is only ever a dirty game played by those on the make.

It all looks very bad and when it comes to the time for us all to put a cross in a box, how many will think back to this and actually bother?

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