It is sad that David Laws has resigned as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, but probably it was inevitable. There are MPs in the current Parliament (Hazel Blears for starters) who have benefited financially far more from the deficient expenses system.
It is regrettable that Nick Clegg has remained silent for the last 24 hours. No statement of support. But of course it is what we should have expected. The whole Liberal Democrat election was run on a lie: that the Lib Dems were squeaky clean on the expenses issue. Now we know they are not: indeed one former Lib Dem MP, David Holmes, lost Chesterfield to Labour and had been embroiled in an expenses issue. Clegg attempted to gloss over that: wrongly claiming the MPs involved had volunteered the information - but it was only after the Daily Telegraph had identified them.
David Laws has paid the price for the stance the Liberal Democrats took at the election.
KENT COMMUNITY ACTIVIST: acerbic, carping, caustic, curmudgeonly,critical, cynical, grumpy, moaning, sardonic and plain speaking.
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