Martin Bell OBE, a former BBC war reporter, became in 1997 the first independent MP to be elected to Parliament since 1950 and he has since campaigned tirelessly for trust and transparency in British Politics.
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. The author explains how the expenses crisis arose and, lays out his prescription for healing the deep wounds inflicted by the scandal.
Martin Bell OBE, a former BBC war reporter, became in 1997 the first independent MP to be elected to Parliament since 1950 and he has since campaigned tirelessly for trust and transparency in British Politics.
The book took 10 weeks to write and reads quickly off the page.
*Eastern Daily Press*
The journalist turned accidental MP has an insight not available to
reporters.
*Eastern Daily Press*
I am especially interested to read Martin's new book...And I am
recommending that everyone buys his book.
*Douglas Carswell, MP for Harwich and Clacton*
Adversity, Bell reminds us, can actually be quite useful.
*Tribune*
Bell doesn't mince his words condemning the 'corrupt' politicians
who have 'lost our trust because they pick our pockets.'
*Sunday Herald*
His latest book is scathing about those who become MPs without
having done much else in their lives other than politics. He judges
- as I do - that much of the recent debacle would have been
avoided, if so many of those who made it to Westminster had a
career pattern other than school, university, researcher, aide to
MP and adoption as Parliamentary candidate.
*Tribune*
Bell is right when he emphasizes that the real problem with the
expenses scandal is not the money: it's the fact that MPs make up
their own rules, and effectively end up writing their own
cheques.
*London Review of Books*
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