Alternatives Quote by Sheila Fraser

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to…

— Tom A. Watson

When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there…

— Heather Brooke

Parliament has become so undermined it is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it. A glaring example is the budget…

— Sheila Fraser

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

— George Osborne

“wanted to come right out of my chair at the witness table and scream, You guys have been in business for over two hundred…

— Robert M. Gates

Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing…

— Margaret Hodge

People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably…

— Frederic Bastiat

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

— Benjamin Constant

Parliament must take responsibility for running an independent complaints service for everyone who works there.

— Nick Boles

We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament].…

— Antonis Samaras

MPs are so cowed by the institutions and the scale of official failure that they generally just muddle along tinkering and hope to stay…

— Dominic Cummings

What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.

— Michael Howard