EDITORIAL

The Westminster expenses scandal appears to be the catalyst for a re-drawing of the political map. Each and every MP has been tarred by the same corrupt brush, and so the electorate that is forever changing complexion and allegiances, has dug in its heels, and absolutely refused to line up behind the two party monoliths any longer, causing new fault lines to open, and the entire system to be scrambled; not quite starting from scratch, but close to it, as the minority parties nibble away at the edges of the big cheeses of New Labour and the Conservatives.

Voters are no longer content to merely make an X on their ballot papers as if semi-illiterate peasants. No they've woken up and smelt the coffee, realizing that their private moment inside a booth is a form of post-feudal leverage.