World leaders, the FT reported last week, “seize on stories about MPs’ bloated expenses claims as evidence of moral decay in the UK”. They should think twice before rejoicing over those for whom the bell tolls: for it tolls for them, too, if in a different way.
That democracy is in trouble – in some versions terminal trouble – is now the commonest of ideas among political scientists, coupled with a regret that their warnings have not been attended to. In one of the first scholarly articles to tackle the expenses scandal, for the next issue of Political Quarterly, the political scientist Alexandra Kelso says that “the House of Commons and its MPs have unequivocally failed to tell the public about who they are, what they do and how they do it, in spite of much good advice from many quarters”.
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