Sentences with phrase «politics by the expenses»
The harm done to politics by the expenses scandal is felt by every MP in the blowback on the doorstep.
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And if institutions (Hollywood, politics, or church) are building walls to protect those who abuse at the expense of those who have been victimized, we need to take those institutions apart... brick by brick.
Nearly 70 per cent of MPs believe that recent stories in the media about expenses have lost them, and politicians in general, trust in the public's eyes, a survey by ComRes for Total Politics revealed.
The idea was to conduct an experiment: would members of the public, disenchanted by politics in the wake of the expenses scandal, come flocking to her door if she embraced these new technologies?
Cameron has made it clear that he wants to reduce the cost of politics and has set out plans to make the House of Commons «smaller and more efficient» by cutting the number of MPs by 10 % and publishing details of their expenses online.
A strategy only of triangulating to win over swing Tory voters may close that gap, but only at the likely expense of further moving Labour away from the millions who are disenchanted by politics as usual.
Australian politics has been dominated recently by Bronwyn Bishop, an ally of Abbott's who was forced to resign as Speaker over her expenses claims.
Politics: Generally a very safe Labour seat, in various guises Salford has consistently returned Labour MPs since 1945, although Hazel Blears «majority fell sharply in 2010 after she became embroiled in the expenses scandal and was targetted by a hostile «Hazel Must Go» campaign.
The election debates gave the Liberal Democrats by - election status, and disrupted an already disjointed Tory campaign The Conservatives stopped losing on the economy but they didn't develop a strong or consistent economic message The Big Society agenda is an exciting governing philosophy but it should never have been put at the heart of the Tory election campaign No party ran a campaign responsive to the seismic impact of the expenses scandal - and to the prevailing mood of disillusion with Westminster politics