Stamp Out Sleaze Day 1

In what has to be one of the most exciting political moves in a very long time, Libertas today began a Stamp Out Sleaze campaign designed to establish a whole new set of standards for political behaviour.

There will be five pledges in total, with the first one launched today; a promise to print all expense claims in detail, including receipts and discussion of why the payment was necessary.

Libertas MEPs will be the first to offer us real and detailed information about how they are spending our money, and to offer justification for why each payment was needed. If only we could have this level of analysis in every level of Government!

One only has to compare this to the disgusting display of greed and abuse of the expense system by the Tories and Labour, as exposed by the Daily Telegraph, to see just how far ahead of the game Libertas really are.

No other party has even come close to providing this level of information. The Tories claimed to be offering 'full disclosure' last year, but a quick look at what Cameron thinks of as 'full' shows that it was a lie. Here's one of the Tory expense documents. What does it tell us about our Tory MEPs? That they make phone calls, travel, hire their wives and... well that's it. It's hard to imagine how they could have made this information any less useful. 

UKIP, the supposed champions against the EU haven't even bothered to pretend to publish their expenses. Perhaps Nigel Farage doesn't want people knowing that he hires his wife too.

All in all, the election just changed to becoming a choice between the same old has-beens and the flag-bearers of honesty in politics; Libertas.

I can't wait for the next pledge release.