Nadine Dorries has likened the current expenses scandal to a "witch-hunt".
Perhaps she should look at her own party's conduct over Smeargate and her own unjustified bills (and forgotten hotel rooms) and consider why the public is so eager for news of this. Perhaps she should also think that some witch-hunts - unlike the McCarthyite scandals in the 1950s - are justified when another £18,000 of our money has gone down the toilet in her name.
It looks like she is less of "Little Dorrit" and more like Fanny Dorrit, who is undone in the novel by thinking she has married into money and then finding herself ruined by her father-in-law's corrupt bank. Or Mr Dorrit, whose new-found wealth goes straight to his head and eventually catches up with him and sends him mad. Never was a more apt film shown in good time last Christmas. Perhaps it is time for a re-run of all three series of "House of Cards" - but this time on BBC1 rather than on the excellent successor to UKTV Documentaries, YeSTERDAY, which intersperses old episodes of Starkey's Monarchy with classic 80s "period" drama. (House of Elliot has just finished with Jack "Vulpes Vulpes-alike" Maddox winning a seat in Parliament as a Labour candidate. Cue the inevitable, and wholly spontaneous, "wonder what his expenses will be like". This has gone beyond a joke.)
Labour's Stephen Pound, on the other hand, not apparently implicated in all of this, has taken the right attitude - that it was time scammers were brought to book. It's probably easier to be distant from this if you have not been caught with your hand in our communal till, but it should go to prove that it is possible to be an MP and not scam the taxpayer.
Off with their heads.
EDIT, 13.41 - Foxy has slapped her down. Oo-er, missus - was it perchance with a sprig of wisteria?
