My local Labour MP has managed to end up with three homes, two of them in London. He did explain how he ended up with three homes on public expenses some time ago, but I've forgotten the details now. Not bad for someone who started out working on the ferries. The Tory candidate hasn't bothered putting in an appearance so far, perhaps he's thrown in the towel already as this is/was a safe Labour seat. So that leaves an equally anonymous Lib Dem candidate who may well get my vote simply because he isn't one of the other pair. I'm fed up with the whole shower of politicians and their hangers-on, especially the spin doctors and press secretaries. What sort of despicable lowlife could think that 9/11 was a good day on which to release bad news? She was Byers' press secretary I recall, and look what he's been up to recently. I still believe in voting, but despair at the shower that end up on the green benches. I despair just as much at the shower who end up on the red benches - especially as their Lordships have all escaped prosecution despite fiddling their expenses for decades. Somewhere online you can view the mansion that Baroness Uddin has built in Bangladesh on taxpayers money, and meanwhile living in Housing Association accommodation in London meant for families on low incomes. You have really got to wonder how these people can live with their consciences. Are politicians a breed apart from ordinary people, or do they start out ok but become subverted by the taxpayer-funded gravy-train they've managed to get on-board?