The cost of a Labour government

Of all of the things which came out from the expenses this is the worst. It is not simply damning to the individual involved, since unlike most of them it could be justified as something other than a greedy pig stuffing their pockets with other people's money, it is damning to the government as a whole and the way that they have lead this country. If a government minister has lost so much trust in the protection of the police that she feels it necessary to pay for her own private guards what does that say about how her government has let one of the few really necessary areas of government fall into rack and ruin.