What about the activists?

The debate about MP allowance claims is often conducted in terms of the electors, how they will react to the "pillaging".

There is another group who are probably even more angry. The is the activists who go out often for the candidate/MP, canvassing, delivering leaflets, raising money and so on, all at their own expense and unpaid.

Just when there seemed a prospect of a Conservative government, those they have helped let the side down badly with greed and arrogance. It is quite possible that even if the Tories are the largest party in the new parliament, there will be no overall control. Indeed, with LibDems seeming to be at present the main gainers from the avarice, a LibDem/Labour coalition seems perhaps a likely outcome.