Royal Marine congratulates Nick Clegg

From the Oxford Mail:

A ROYAL Marine seriously wounded in Iraq collared Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg in Oxford today to applaud him for pledging action to clean up Parliament…

Mr Johnstone, of Salter Close, Grandpont, told Mr Clegg: “This is the first time I’m going to be voting for you.”

The 46-year-old suffered severe shrapnel wounds to his right leg when a roadside bomb exploded as his unit patrolled close to Basra Airport in August 2003.

He told the Oxford Mail: “What’s impressed me is he’s been on TV and he said he’s asking that every MP across the political divide should not be allowed to go on summer holidays until this expenses row has been sorted out.

“As someone who served his country and has been blown to bits, I find it very hard to take that these people are getting money for their moat or a duck pond and some minion somewhere in an office signs it off for them.”