My response to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority consultation: Question 1: Do you agree that the CSPL’s principles, supplemented as proposed, should form the basis of the new expenses system? Yes Additional comments: The public must have a right to know the specifics of expenses. This implied by “open and transparent” but MPs have for… Continue reading What I said to IPSA
Day: January 15, 2010
Zac Goldsmith, Peter Watt and the anti-politics age
On the face of it, Zac Goldsmith and Peter Watt are two very different people. One thing they have common however is that they are high stakes rollers in the game of politics who claim to not be politicians. Writing in today’s New Statesman, Peter Watt bemoans the fact that: Working in front-line politics is… Continue reading Zac Goldsmith, Peter Watt and the anti-politics age