Snouts in the Trough

Rumour has it that some MPs have managed to recruit a few tame journalists to launch a campaign of vilification against Sir Christopher Kelly in order to undermine him and sink his proposals for reforms of the MPs’ expenses system. The first attack will probably come tomorrow in your Sunday papers.

So, Cameron the Coward has dumped his promise of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Of course, his reasoning is rationally correct – a referendum after the next election would be too late to affect Lisbon. But politically this may be a disaster – by driving voters towards UKIP, Cameron the Coward may split the [...]

Every day our MPs come up with new reasons to chip away at the proposed reforms of their expenses. Now they claim it’s an abuse of their human rights if they’re not allowed to shower their family members with our money for supposedly ‘working’. Plus, Speaker the Dishonourable John ‘Flipper’ Bercow says that it would be too difficult [...]