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A very British revolution the expenses scandal and how to save our democracy

The revelations over MPs expenses that began in May 2009 ranged from petty thieving to outright fraud and sparked a crisis in confidence unprecedented in modern times. This was a 21st-century Peasants Revolt, an uprising of the people against the political class. Ordinary men and women with political views across the spectrum were by turns amused, incredulous, shocked and then bitterly angry as the disclosures on MPs expenses flooded out. From Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's bath plug to Conservative MP Sir John Butterfil's flipping of his constituency home,a now-notorious manoeuvre that requir

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