What is so 'broken'?

Horsham Labour Party member, Ray Battersby, responded to an article by the Tory leader of West Sussex County Council in this letter which was printed in today's West Sussex County Times.

Francis Maude's expenses

On October 16th Horsham's MP, Francis Maude, revealed that he would not be required by Sir Thomas Legg to repay any of his parliamentary expenses.

Our prospective parliamentary candidate, Andrew Skudder, wrote a response to this, which the West Sussex County Times have not published.

No clarity on expenses

This week parliament published the long-awaited details of parliamentary expenses and Horsham's MP included a link to his expenses on his web site. The intention of all this was to provide greater transparency and for us, the public, to see how our money is being spent.

'Should He Stay or Should He Go Now?'

By David Hide
Chair Horsham Labour Party

Up and down the country many MPs are spending the bank holiday weekend in their constituencies, away from the spotlight of our national media but, nevertheless, with their ears pressed firmly to the ground, listening to the hue and cry their respective misdemeanours have created.

Maude still under fire

This week's West Sussex County Times contains 19 letters from readers, and a whopping 9 of them relate to Francis Maude one way or the other.

Labour's parliamentary candidate & expenses

The West Sussex County Times carried a letter in May from a Peter Hillman about our parliamentary candidate's statement on MPs' expenses.

Our prospective parliamentary candidate and the Chair of Horsham Labour Party both had letters published in the same paper this week in response to the original letter.

Whose recession?

Throughout the current global economic downturn, the Tories have been very keen to try and put the blame for everything on the Labour party - foreclosures in the US? unemployment in Japan? Bank failures in Iceland? All Labour's fault apparently,

Horsham MP's parliamentary expenses

By Andrew Skudder

Reading the letters page of the West Sussex County Times, May 1st 2009 has been a good way to mark the workers' holiday...