Baroness Scotland's £3K Paint Job

Baroness Scotland Charged Taxpayer £33,000 For Posh Paint #ScotlandFiles https://t.co/ZV9MmdOGsp pic.twitter.com/UHcbJZ1xyX

— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) November 2, 2016

Come Fly With Me

MPs foreign trip bill rises to £550,000. Fact finding missions or just MPs on tour? https://t.co/KxATr6V9e6 pic.twitter.com/y0XwFMwthz

— TaxPayers' Alliance (@the_tpa) August 11, 2016

The Pigs Win - Expense Records Destroyed

In a display of arrogance and disdain for the voters, Bercow's office has destroyed paperwork relating to MPs' expense claims made before 2010. The excuse being that the destruction was necessary to comply with data protection laws.

Unsurprisingly, this means that those MPs accused of abusing the expenses system will escape official investigation.

How "ironic"!

The "Distraction" of Millergate

Maria Miller has finally resigned her office, on the basis that the affair is proving to be a distraction to the work of her party.

All very well and dandy, as far as that goes. However, she and some in her party have not learned the fundamental lesson from this. Irrespective of whether she really believes that it was OK to only repay £5,800 out of the £45,000 that the independent parliamentary commissioner for standards had previously recommended, the voters do not think that this was right.

Like it or not MPs cannot be seen to be milking taxpayers' money for their own personal benefit.

Public service means just that, the role is for the benefit of the "public" not for the MP's personal gain.

The fact that neither she nor her leader seems to have got that point yet indicates a vast disconnect between some of those in Westminster and the voters.

MPs' Child Expenses

According to the Telegraph MPs insist that the necessity to have two bases means that they must be compensated for the costs associated with their children.

Errmm, why is that MPs deserve special treatment when this is not the case for non parliamentarians who are working in another part of the country or abroad?