Little Piggies Round the Trough

For the twentieth consecutive day the headlines are full of expense claims by our illustrious leaders and with every headline come promises of "regime change". I'm almost certain that no-one is suggesting it will be the sort of regime changes that Messr Blair and Bush were so keen on, but there is a feeling that something fundamental needs to change. To me, it appears that the reason why we are irked at the extent of MP's dishonesty is that they have been able to make their own rules whilst giving us a completely different set to live by. Those who are calling for general elections (one D.Cameron) have seemingly allowed members of their flock to gorge themselves on our hard earned taxes for a long time without raising so much as a whisper about it until they were forced to. Is electing more of the same, really what we need?

Do we really trust the current parliamentarian incumbents to change a system that they set up for their own benefit? After years of being told where we can smoke, and what we should eat and drink, they have been found out for not following the rules they love dishing out and thinking that we (the great unwashed public) should simply do as they say and not as they do. After all, smoking is not banned in the bar at the houses of Parliament and a large proportion of MP's appear to be a little on the rotund side which is evidence that they don't even follow their own five-a-day rule.