Expenses scandal just won't go away. Do we pay? No?

We are actually on the way to dealing with several of those points.

Obviously, we face a General Election within a couple of months which will see around half of all MPs replaced. The new members will, hopefully, arrive with a ready understanding of the need to radically reform Parliament and the way it remunerates and supports them. This, in turn, should deal with the second point as it seems there are still many in the House of Commons - judging by the response to events last week - who still do not understand the full extent of the anger and disillusionment that is widespread in the country.

It does look as if some of the worst cases are being dealt with severely, whether it is Labour MP Harry Cohen being denied his severance pay or the trio of Labour MPs and one Tory peer being charged with a range of criminal offences. We have to hope that they all see sense and do not hide behind Parliamentary Privilege. They all protest their innocence - let them prove that in open court where the rest of us would have to if we were in a similar position.

To complete the holding of the worst perpetrators to account I still think we should be looking to the tax authorities to scrutinise serial home flipping where it was clearly used as a dodge to avoid Capital Gains Tax.

That leaves us with transparency and I do think that we are getting there on that front, even if it does then throw some awkward questions at those who have paid MPs for various activities. The publication last week of the last few years' bookings for dinning rooms and other hospitality facilities in the Palace of Westminster did just that.

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