Too many of the UK’s political elite still don’t get it.

I avoid writing about Members of Parliament and their gaming of expenses. These days I try to avoid thinking about MPs at al all. I just get angry. I turn them off when ever they come on TV.

A new low point was reached this week. Sir Thomas Legg has been looking at MPs expenses and has placed a cap on some of the more outrageous excesses.

For example he has placed limits of £1,000 a year for gardening and £2,000 a year for cleaning. Any MP who has claimed over this amount is being asked to repay the difference. They are not amused.

On Wednesday the Leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman told the House that claims had to be judged, “by the rules and standards that obtained at the time” anything else would be “arbitrary.”

A deft political touch that would have left Marie Antoinette gasping in disbelief.

What she and too many other MPs ignore is that merely staying within the rules counts for very little when you make the rules yourself. No one else in the country gets to claim £1,000 a year for gardening as a job expense.

MPs standing with the electorate has dropped yet further. The next general election promises to be a blood bath. No one within the government show any recognition of this. They have no idea of how to avoid their fate.

So, this vid is for all the MPs who are currently whining on about how hard life is now that they can only stitch taxpayers up £1,000 a year to get their gardening done.

There is a house in London Town,
They call the Commons…

….and you gotta love the suits.

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