Expensive expenses

I do find this expenses row happening at the moment very annoying. not because MPs are claiming for silly things, because i dont think they are really claiming for massively silly things. What i find annoying is all the press (particularly the right-wing press) sensationalising it all. It is reported by the independant that Gordon Brown paid his brother £6000 from expenses (at least thats what they're trying to convey). but thats utter bullshit! He hired a cleaner through his brother, you would need to look at the circumstances for why he couldnt pay the cleaner directly, but i highly doubt he went through his brother so that his brother got money from the "tax-payer"

i will admit that the MPs husband that claimed for porn is a fucking idiot, but most of the expenses are genuine expenses, hotels, business meals, etc...

I was watching BBC Breakfast this morning, and they had this old woman on, i cant remember her name, but i've seen her on there before, and i really dislike her! She consistantly has no real argument, misquotes and goes off in stupid tangents that are completely unrelated to the subject being discussed. it appears to me that the only reason she goes on is to badmouth Gordon Brown and the labour party. For instance, this morning she highlighted a case in the independant of someone claiming £16000 on a wetroom, she didnt know what a wetroom was, and lambasted it as if it was something stupid. She is a fucking idiot. I must admit that i didnt know when she brought it up, but before writing this post, i checked for what a wetroom is. It turns out that it's basically an open bathroom, which is not a stupid thing, my Great-Grandmother had one made for her when she was severely disabled. You shouldnt go on TV debating a serious politcal thing and attack things which you dont know the meaning of. she also mentioned the recent problems the government has been having with the ghurkas, which is completely out of place in a debate about expenses.

writing this post has really made me want to write an email to BBC Breakfast asking them why they chose/choose this person to talk about subjects like this.

grr, bloody annoying things...