Michael Crick has revealed the reasons why so few other media have taken the expenses scandal seriously:
“I think it’s one of those areas where other political journalists don’t really touch it,” said Crick.
“There’s a sort of a view that ‘we all know the politicians bake their election expenses, it doesn’t really matter’ they have a good laugh about it a bit like they used to with parliamentary expenses.”
But he added: “It’s important because a) it’s the law and politicians shouldn’t be breaking the law, and b) [the campaign spending limit] is to create a level playing field so that local campaigns are fair and that people can’t buy elections and that we’re not America and I think everybody subscribes to that.”
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