Quentin, Jokes and Expenses

Quentin Davies on his expenses:

"It has resulted in a number of jokes in the House of Commons, which is fine."

It is a pretty bold move for any of the self-serving, greedy wankers in the Commons to reduce their egregious expenses claims to the level of a joke. Not least because the joke isn't funny. In fact, millions of people across this country would find jokes made by MPs about their expenses anything other than funny. However, in order to avoid some tedious would-be MP blathering on in the comments section about how the expenses scandal isn't a scandal at all and that MPs are, for reasons that defy both understanding and common sense, owed the massive amounts of cash they have fleeced from the British population, I won't dwell in this concept of expenses as a joke. Instead, I'll tell you a story that is far funnier.

It is the story of an MP who had such a ruddy complexion that he resembled an obese Beetroot with high blood pressure. Now, this MP was a Tory through the fag end of the Thatcher years, the failed Major years, and the years of catastrophic opposition under Hague, IDS and Howard. But just as Cameron took over and started to make the party popular again, this MP decided he would join the Labour party - just as the leader of that party began his ruthless campaign to make his government the most hated in living memory. And so our MP lived out the final days of his "career" floundering around like a beached whale trying to find the tide - trapped in a party he opportunistically joined at the worst possible moment.

Ok, it is not that funny - it is more about the tragic and the pathetic. But the miserable career of Quentin Davis is at least easier to laugh at than his ridiculous expenses claims.