Man in a Shed: Leader's repaid expenses

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Leader's repaid expenses

Is it just me or is there a clear message here on repayed expenses ?

One party leader is at least 1386% large than the others. Could this be the man who ran the nation's finances into the ditch ? Oh yes ...

H/T to the Lib Dem cynical bar chart dept - but boys notice this one is scaled correctly ....

4 comments:

Letters From A Tory said...: Nice summary, although I was pondering on my blog today which of the party leaders has the most to lose or gain from these latest revelations - quite a tricky question, in all honesty.; 9:24 am
Man in a Shed said...: I suspect there is something quite unfair about this latest phase of the expense scandal and that some of the loathing of politicians for other reasons is being transferred to this subject.

I think the conventional wisdom is that Labour do worse as their core vote is most offended.

But we'll have to see.; 10:08 am
Anonymous said...: It's "repaid" not "repayed"; 3:07 pm
Man in a Shed said...: @Anon - Thanks.; 3:25 pm

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