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What a joke the UK is.

"ACCOUNTABILITY
Holders of public office are accountable for their decisions and actions to the public and must
submit themselves to whatever scrutiny is appropriate to their office."

In a real democracy every action including all expenditures of public funds for the exercise of their duties which are their only legitimate expenses funded by the taxpayer beyond their salaries would be open to public scrutiny all the time and wouldn't have to wait for criticism by the Speaker of the House or some other commission or agency of government to expose them, it would be done by their political rivals. To do this the ultimate loyalty of the politicians would have to be to their constituents, not to their party, not to a system whose secrecy is a guarantee of corruption. The corruption hardly stops at the mere expenditures of public funds for illigetimate private gain, it is rotten through and through right to its core. The refusal to allow the promised referendum on the most vital of all issues to citizens of the UK, who is to govern them was denied them because the corrupt elitist group who run the UK like all other European governments see their own self interest in one day being members of an even more elitist group in Brussels where the opportunity to self serving embezzlement of taxpayer money is even greater than it is in the UK. That the voters do not hold their representatives feet to the fire, throw the bums out, demand a change to the system that takes these powers of secrecy away from them is proof that there is no cluture of democracy in the true sense in Britain or anywhere else in Europe for that matter. As a result, this type of crime and far worse will be allowed to flourish and go undiscovered except for occasional leaks. I think it is certain that the half hearted measures will be seen as sweeping but their superficiality will hide the fact that at its core, power will not give up its privilege willingly. With no propensity for the voters to take it back themselves in the British culture, all will remain exactly as it is, the deck chairs on the Titanic will merely be rearranged. Morality in government? Don't make me laugh. The report is just a pile of words. In the real world, real people who play real politics for high stakes will put their personal interests above all othrs and the system does not force those interests to coincide with those of their constituents.