*Acting* Against the Expenses Exploiters

Gordon Brown – who, lest we forget, was all for action over expenses a few weeks ago – on the whole expenses row now:

Questioned at a summit he is attending with other EU leaders Mr Brown said: "I think over the last few days the world has made sufficient advances in how we can deal with the economy, how we can deal with terrorism, how we can deal with security and these are the issues I am concentrating on. All these other issues are being dealt with by the Committee on Standards in Public Life".

Harriet Harman on the expenses row:

"Gordon Brown has asked for an independent review and we will be taking action soon," she said.

Anyone clock the slight contradiction in what they are saying? Yep, Gordo wrote a letter and has now lost interest. Harman believes that they will be taking action very soon. It really does appear that Harman and Brown don’t bother speaking too each other anymore. Because Brown lost interest in this fucking fiasco after he wrote a letter. Harman is banging on about it like it is a crucial, imminent policy for the fucking Labour government. They can’t even get their fucking story straight amongst the members of the Cabinet – how the ruddy fuck would they ever be able to come up with a coherent plan for the nation?

The truth is obvious to anyone with even half a brain cell. Labour aren’t planning to do anything about expenses – it would cost their MPs too much financially. Brown, Harman et al aren’t going to do anything other than dissemble in the hope that all will go away. But I don’t think that is going to happen. This issue is going to be on the agenda for a good long time yet. And with each new scandal – particularly since this troughing goes right up to the pigging Chancellor – the anger is going to increase.

And I really, really hope it does. Because it is only when the anger goes into overdrive that we will really see the general public kicking back against the devious, truculent porcine thieves who *serve* in the House of Commons.