As the expenses saga goes on, the public anger continues to increase. It's not just the person who applies to the social fund and gets a bed but is denied a mattress who looks askance at what has been going on.
Volunteer party activists I speak to are incandescent with rage. They give their time for free. Because they believe in what our country can be. The elderly lady who stuffs envelopes, the man who works long hours yet still finds time to help deliver some leaflets, the retired ex army guy who is the backbone of the canvassing operation and the full time mum who telephones through hundreds of numbers from home. Let's not forget too the presentational skills professional who charges vastly reduced rates so Conservative speakers present their best front. They are universal in the anger they feel at what has been going on. They tell me time and again they don't give up their time for nothing to witness the sort of things we have seen.
It doesn't look like sorry will now be good enough. David Cameron has some difficult decisions to make in the days ahead. In making those decisions, I am certain that he will have the strong support of the voluntary party and can start the process of restoring trust and confidence in our gravely battered public life.