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Follow the money – cleaning up MPs interests

By Colin Walklin | Tue 10th October 2006 - 1:27 pm

The growing disconnect between the voters & the politicians they elect is one of the seemingly intractable problems facing political parties today, and  I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard some hand-wringing politician crying crocodile tears about the “you’re all in it for yourselves mentality” which prevails amongst the general public.

Of course this is unfair, but public perception is unfair, and MPs are nowadays all seen as sleazy & out for themselves.

This is why we as Lib Dems have to mark out a distinctive difference here between our approach & that of the NuLabCon parties.

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