The worst thing that will come out of this is ….

Far more intelligent people than me have blogged about MP’s expenses, while the Daily Telegraph continues its own single-handed self-appointed role as sole arbitrator of dog food receipts.

Consensus inevitably comes to these points

MP’s aren’t all corrupt, although that won’t stop the Torygraph slinging enough muck to cover most of Norfolk

Gordon Brown is corrupt, in big letters

Although, actually, it was all someone else’s mistake in smaller letters further down the article and he isn’t actually corrupt.

Therefore, the system needs updating

All the party leaders apologise, probably more as a pre-emptive ‘sorry’ for the items that HAVEN’T come out yet, but what will all this mean in the long term.

It’s a bit tiring being a labour supporter at the moment. Small ‘L’ indicating my more than lapsed activism towards a party bearing only the name of the one I joined over 25 years ago.

What can they do about the credit crunch ? Not a great deal, except in Gordon Brown you’ve probably got the best man for the job to sort it out, a grey-suited accountant who can do magic with figures, but can’t produce a decent YouTube sound bite without looking like, well, a grey-suited accountant.

The current expenses row will push the already disillusioned electorate towards demanding change come the next election probably leading to another tenure for the suddenly sleaze-free Conservatives, all because a few ‘Labour’ MP’s massaged their expenses. Anyone who can remember the period between ’92 and ’97, the last possible year the Tories could hang on to what little chance they had to cream off the top, will recall a government riddled with corruption & sleaze.

But they’ll get back in and the only people who’ll benefit will be the top earners, your share-holders, middle England, fat-cats.

Exactly the same people who caused the f***ing credit-crunch mess in the first place.