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…

Such has been the controversy over MPs' expenses of late it can't be long until the next scandal emerges - when we find out that ministers have all been frantically spending public money on books like How To Shred Unwanted Receipts Properly or Fingers In The Penny Jar: A… read more…

Want a further addition to the recent media furore about MPs' declared - and more importantly undeclared - expenses? Oh, go on, then. It turns out that now Michael Martin, speaker of the House Of Commons, is due to face a probe into his financial dealings. It's being carried… read more…

Not to put too fine a point on it, but how many among us can claim we never earned Air Miles on business travel that we later used for a personal flight? That said, Westmonster plans to fully take advantage of the new lower threshold for government scandals, using our… read more…

Iain Dale reckons that Cameron slam-dunked it, but here at Westmonster we're not so sure. Yeah, okay so Davy managed a few jibes about Brown's trustworthiness but really, any child with an above room temperature IQ could have managed that today. Maybe he's worried about some hitherto undiscovered logs in… read more…

Liberal Democrat leadership hopeful Chris Huhne apologised to Michael Martin today for getting over-excited in a Newsnight interview and claiming that the Speaker fell asleep during the Boy David's speech the other day. "I'd like to apologise to the Speaker for this unseemly behaviour, but it's been a bugger of a… read more…

The Gord's woes were many at the beginning of the week, and by the end they were legion. A particularly irritating leit motif for Brown was the fact that Anthony Seldon's new book on Blair hit the shelves over the weekend, so the PM's parade was further rained upon by various reminiscences of… read more…

This week at PMQs we were treated to the sight of the Gord under fire over the report into the Scottish election fiasco, Cameron changed his strategy and split up his questions leading to an outbreak of stuttering from the PM around twenty minutes in, Michael Martin fought an ultimately pointless battle to… read more…