Politicians should have handed out fewer allowances in the first place – why should I pay to make up for their mistakes?

It is true politicians have made mistakes and they will continue to do so unless they feel pressure from public opinion and voters. The reason why they handed out too many allowances initially was because they were under pressure from industry who claimed that if they received too few allowances they would loose out against competitors in other European countries and the rest of the world.

Sadly that argument won the day and is still being used to slow down action even now. Sandbag doesn’t want your money to let politicians off the hook – quite the opposite – we intend to use your membership fee to campaign to make sure the same mistakes are not made again and to minimise the damage resulting from decisions made to date that can't be reversed. Not to do so would be cutting our nose off to spite our face. We can make a difference despite what the politicians so far have done and we believe we should.