Downing Street has been forced to deny accusations that Gordon Brown 'ducked' a vote on the reform of MPs expenses. According to his Tory enemies, Brown went 'AWOL' on the determinant vote, which, if passed, would have scrapped the controversial second home allowance. Instead, all that's really changed is… read more…

The English are pretty good at tolerating unnecessary nuisances. Take the bad weather, for example; snow in the middle of June is about as big of a pain in the ass as even the most robustly callipygian of us could handle. Or what about the rising gas and electricity prices… read more…

The way that Westmonster currently views the political scene is as follows: on the Left we have the useless, on the Right are the artless and insincere, and in the middle hovers an ineffectual bunch of neophytes that nobody really ever listens to. Whereas we could no doubt sit around… read more…

Despite their differing political beliefs, it seems that there are still at least three things that MPs throughout the nation have in common regardless of status or creed: First of all, their egos are inflated to monumental proportions which in some way allows them to believe that they are as… read more…

According Harriet Harman, the 14 dirty MPs that tried to keep their expense details secret will get their comeuppance sometime tomorrow. Unfortunately, it appears that some of the juicier details of how the public funds were spent will remain undisclosed. Although Harman has stated that the addresses of the MPs… read more…

Well, well, well. The House of Commons has lost its court case to keep the expense details of its MPs as a dirty little secret. It comes as good news for democracy but bad nose for money-grubbing politicians everywhere who will, from now on, no doubt, be a little more… read more…

Remember the wife of Commons Speaker Michael Martin? She was the dirty broad who managed to whack up a massive £4,139.17 in taxi fares, paid for by tax payers in the form of expenses, which she used to go on shopping trips?!?!?! Well, turns out today that the investigation into… read more…