Sorry for the lack of posts this week. I went back to work on Tuesday after being off ill with food poisoning. As usual, I failed to pace myself, and by Thursday I felt as ill as I had done the previous week. Since then I have been taking it easy.
I have been doing some work in my new capacity as Organiser of the Hull and East Riding Branch of the Taxpayers' Alliance. I have been quoted in the Hull Daily Mail twice and yesterday the newspaper printed a letter of mine. The new branch is getting off to a flying start, thanks to the redacted expenses claims of our MPs.
Those redacted documents have proven once again parliament is not willing to be honest with the public. If it was not for the Daily Telegraph, we would not have heard about duck houses, moat cleaning, flipping of second homes and alleged avoidance of capital gains tax. Those who said the Telegraph did not need to print the details of expenses claims must never have heard of the word 'redaction.'
The Speakership election is proving to be a about as exciting as a wet weekend in Blackpool. The one thing I think is certain is the Commons will not get a reforming Speaker. Bercow is not going to win, neither is Beckett, and neither is Beith. After that, it is down to Haselhurst, Young and Cormack. I can't see how any of them can be a reforming Speaker. Time will tell.
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