Quotation for Today, Saturday June 20

“If people had had to rely on this information to find out about their MPs they would have been faced with swaths of black ink rather than information about the flipping of homes and the avoidance of capital gains tax. It took a huge amount of effort from campaigners, my Liberal Democrat colleagues and other independent-minded MPs to get even this much information released. It’s a shame that it is still far less transparent than it could have been.”

Vince Cable of the British Liberal Democrats, quoted in The Times, after the release by the House of Commons Fees Office of heavily censored details of MPs expenses – despite the Daily Telegraph having published unexpurgated details.

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