Topslide.....good post!
A large part of the problem is the MP's themselves.....until they can see beyond their snouts then they won't ever take them out of the £95m trough being provided by the tax payers each year. Regardless of which party you think will be best to sort this mess out, politicians are pigs in a trough and that's been firmly re-enforced by the by this whole expense's and allowances row.
This country is on it's knee's but we're still paying for MP's second homes to be furnished with LCD TV's and £1000 rugs etc. It's a shameful disgrace that this is allowed to go on when every other bugger is struggling to make ends meet and greedy Gordon, together with his pet Darling, continue to systematically piss away what little is left.
Anyway, this isn't a political soapbox for me but it bloody infuriates me when I'm struggling to pay the bills but MP's and other civil servants continue to live the high life at my expense!!! grrrrrrrr
