Wednesday 31 March 2010
Voters more concerned about straight answers than crooked expenses
"Perhaps surprisingly, the public's view of the honesty and integrity of elected politicians was not changed by last year's stream of damaging revelations about MPs' expenses. The proportion of people who rated politicians' standards of honesty and integrity as "somewhat low" was 38.2 per cent just before the disclosures and 38.7 per cent five months later."
"Perhaps surprisingly, the public's view of the honesty and integrity of elected politicians was not changed by last year's stream of damaging revelations about MPs' expenses. The proportion of people who rated politicians' standards of honesty and integrity as "somewhat low" was 38.2 per cent just before the disclosures and 38.7 per cent five months later."
Not all that surprising
Just shows that we have always known what they were up to. When the details of their petty venality were exposed, it actually seemed that they were far less wicked than we had thought. Hence the 0.5% rise.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 07:39 
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