The exposure of excessive expenses claims made by politicians and other public servants.
in 1997 he began a campaign of perk-busting
Example sentencesExamples
- I wonder how a perk-busting braggart can make no apologies for slurping $25,000 or so from the public trough.
- The party became more associated with perk-busting and the like.
- It was fire and brimstone, despite his having branded them as the perk-busting party.
- But the most ironic point of all (given his proclivity for "perk-busting") is that we're paying him for this.
- The party will continue to receive the free media coverage from his perk-busting activities.
- The party has so far survived its perk-busting former leader spending taxpayer money on a holiday with his girlfriend.
- The media have been woefully one-sided in focussing on his perk-busting.
- When they ask him about his perk-busting lapse, he makes no apology.
- Even this perk-busting supremo didn't know of the new tax status of MPs.
- These are the costs of being too closely involved with perk-busting.