'Tories to publish expenses review' puffs the BBC and today the Tories will open up their nest of vipers to scrutiny.
Or will they? And will they actually de-select any Tory MPs or will they simply have a 'quiet word'. This is one area where Labour has trumped the Tories, by making a few of their lesser MPs scapegoats they have appeared to be doing something and they have managed to cling on to more senior transgressors.
This may be the best mirror to hold up to the Tories - how they deal with themselves. If their 'review' turns out to be a Dave-esque written version of a fireside chat with no sanctions for anyone that seems like a pretty good pointer to a possible future Eton-led government. So abandon hope all you advocates of change, the appropriately named Conservatives are back in town.
NB: for those of you of a pedantic bent I am aware that the Tory party does not formally exist and that all local parties are bizarrely independent of the centre but it would be highly unlikely for the good members of Rotten-in-the-Core to go against the pronouncements of their leader at Westminster and not de-select one of their more badly behaved MPs. I suppose the problem for the Tories would be where it would end...
UPDATE
Bingo. Those plucky Tories have done nothing beyond forcing their rich chums to pay back a few quid, about what William Hague will get for his next book deal.
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Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Try telling the one about the Tory Party not existing to those local parties who've had A-list candidates forced on them from above. Central Office can force things through when it wants to.
True, Dave has done more of this than previous leaders have managed as the party is so desperate to win the next election but when it comes to actually chucking one of their dorm chums out of the House for snaffling biscuits it just isn't going to happen.
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