Pay Fever Season and the Honourable Members.

Just some thoughts about the current insights into the behaviour of our beloved MPs.
The standard responses from our chosen ones is that the claims were 'Inadvertent,' 'Accounting mistakes,' or 'Genuine errors due to work pressures.' Bless.
To somehow atone for any misdemeanour, noughty cheques and apologies are dispensed before the massed ranks of the encircling media. Any resulting prosecution? Bless.
Now picture the scene in your local constituency branch of the Bill as the long -in-the-tooth CID officer hears my hard pressed businessman client rattling off the same litany of honourable excuses in a minor fraud inquiry. Even offering to pay back any oversights?Any resulting prosecution? Hmm.
Or picture the Benefits Fraud single parent up before the DSS for systematic periodical false claims. But perhaps she has not got an old coots cheque book in her kitchen drawer to ameliorate matters. Any resulting prosecution? Hmm.
The Victorian Honorable fellows tried many a method to stop the stench of the then polluted Thames upsetting their lifestyles. Curtains were closed and doused. Only a grand scheme of sewer building cleared the air.
Now the prevailing smells seem to emanate from inside the House. Would Health & Safety allow an internal cesspit in 2009? Or should the original Thorney Island on which it sits be moved out towards Gravesend? Hmm.
Enough ranting, it's a Sir Freddie's Bank Holiday weekend. The sun is bursting through the ozone and the hounds need to lift and squat.
Later.