Sir Patrick Cormack comes to the point!

Whilst the Daily Mail keeps the kettles and coffee pots at raging boiling point in the serenity of surburbia, with its moral outrage at MPs expenses (they didn't get the scoop!), it is up to MPs to defend us against our democracy becoming a political forum for the wrong sort.Sir Patrick Cormack rightly says, in defending Alan Duncan's central message, "We don't want a parliament of political anoraks and rich people. Those who have a vocation for public life shouldn't be deterred from going into parliament because they can't afford to contemplate it. Being an MP is an extremely expensive business." David Cameron, probably sensing that the majority...

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Alan Duncan says sorry for something!

Alan Duncan has got himself into a spot of bother. He has been caught out on tape saying some things some people think he ought not to have said. He was heard to say MPs were being treated badly after the expenses scandal and "have to live on rations". David Cameron, his leader, was none too happy.Whilst I deplored Duncan's original approach to the expenses scandal, I do think he has a point much overlooked by his well-to-do wisteria claiming leader. That is, if MPs are to be just a load of salaried hacks, most of them emanating from behind the desks of quangos, research departments and think tanks, we are all going to be a damn sight worse off....

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Do I want to choose a Labour candidate?

David Miliband is very keen to follow the Conservative primary event in Totnes, where a GP got voted in over two Tory stalwarts. Miliband is not elaborating much, other to sight the US Democrats and the Greek Socialists.I thought about the Totnes vote, but my mind boggles a bit at voting for a socialist in a Labour Primary. I've never voted Labour in my life. First they were seen as fellow travellers of the communists and not a very patriotic bunch. Now they've turned all New Labour and are still not a very patriotic bunch. But this time they are demolishing the institutions from within.I know there are some good Labour politicians. But I'd have...

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