Having recently learned that the National Audit Office has refused to write off the Commons accounts, we now read in the DT that Sir Christopher Kelly, Chairman on Standards in Public Life, has had to speak out against the possibility of MPs policing their own expenditure claims. This is because MPs, including David Cameron, threaten to scrap the existing system run by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.
My last blog asked if these people have learning difficulties. We now have the answer. It beggars belief that when confidence in Britain’s parliamentary representatives is at an all-time low, that the Prime Minister supports the possible closure of IPSA. If they continue down this road, these people will be responsible for eradicating the few traces of genuine democracy that remain in the UK.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Hi Tom. Who is Mildred?
No idea, Val. I thought that was the wife’s name in ‘One Foot in the Grave’.
Oh I see, she was the long suffering Margaret 🙂
Oops, memory failing, going ga-ga. I think Mildred was Captain Mainwaring’s wife in ‘Dads’ Army’.
You’re definitely a grumpy old fella.
This is the thin end of the slippery slope, as Bernard Levin used to remark!
Somehow Cameron is reminiscent of Chamberlain.