{"id":31590,"date":"2018-03-09T14:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T13:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/09\/the-abuse-scandal-was-going-to-be-as-big-as-mps-expenses-so-whats-happened-kate-maltby\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T13:44:31","slug":"the-abuse-scandal-was-going-to-be-as-big-as-mps-expenses-so-whats-happened-kate-maltby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=31590","title":{"rendered":"The abuse scandal was going to be as big as MPs\u2019 expenses. So what\u2019s happened? | Kate Maltby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsnight\u2019s report shows that Andrea Leadsom\u2019s committee is no threat to Westminster\u2019s toxic culture of entitlementIn January of this year, I was interviewed for the Guardian alongside two other women who\u2019d made complaints of sexual harassment against politicians. We were a Tory, a Liberal Democrat and a Labour activist. Supporting us was the leader of the Women\u2019s Equality party, Sophie Walker. She looked back to October of last year, when the outermost tides of the Harvey Weinstein scandal first lapped against the banks of Westminster. \u201cAt the beginning of this, people thought this was the next expenses scandal and it was going to tear parliament apart. It hasn\u2019t. Why? Because basically we care more about MPs who spend money on duck houses than MPs who grope, assault, harass and frighten women. And that is an absolute indictment of this system.\u201d Related: House of Commons denies bullying claims involving John Bercow Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/mar\/09\/abuse-scandal-mps-expenses-andrea-leadsom-committee-westminster\" target=\"_blank\">The abuse scandal was going to be as big as MPs\u2019 expenses. So what\u2019s happened? | Kate Maltby<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsnight\u2019s report shows that Andrea Leadsom\u2019s committee is no threat to Westminster\u2019s toxic culture of entitlementIn January of this year, I was interviewed for the Guardian alongside two other women who\u2019d made complaints of sexual harassment against politicians. We were a Tory, a Liberal Democrat and a Labour activist. Supporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}