A straw poll

A trip back from the local garage this morning resulted in me being in a car with three other gents of "a certain age".

What was the topic of conversation? Swine flu? No. Local elections? No. You guessed it MPs and their expense claims.

In this admittedly small survey, 100% of the people polled thought that MPs had behaved disgracefully. (That wasn't the word used but we'll keep things polite.)

All of those polled thought that the Government had effectively lost control of the situation and did not have an ounce of moral fibre left in them.

Then we went to work; because in the end we all look after ourself and our family first. Hopefully we do that without taking from others what is not ours to take.

That of course is just what the MPs have done, looked after themselves first. They just forgot that it is the great mass of the population that pays their wages and somehow came to believe that they were worth far more than the £65,000 salary they get paid each year.

MPs salary = £65,000 Moral Compass = Priceless