The Parliamentary Peloton
Peter Mair: Money and Politics, 25 February 2010
A Very British Revolution: The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy
by Martin Bell.
Icon, 246 pp., £11.99, October 2009,978 1 84831 096 4 Show More
by Martin Bell.
Icon, 246 pp., £11.99, October 2009,
“... for their votes on planning and rezoning issues. Among the worst offenders was the overbearing Ray Burke, a former minister, who was eventually jailed for tax evasion, but had earlier pocketed almost £3 million when he sold his family home to the property developers Flynn and O’Flaherty. The lavish lifestyle of Charles Haughey, the former Fianna Fáil ... ”