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Article: No time for a 'cathartic moment'.(Letters)
- Article from:
- The Journal (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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Byline: PAUL LINFORD
EVER since the start of the MPs expenses affair, it has been clear that no one political party has had a monopoly on sleazy behaviour.
From Tory knight Sir Peter Viggers' duck island to Labour ex-minister Elliott Morley's mortgage claims, the scandal has engulfed those on all sides of the political divide.
You might expect from this that the net effect of the whole debacle in terms of the opinion polls would be pretty well neutral.
But that is not how the public has seen it. ...