I have to say I find todays rantings by David Cameron regarding the 3 MP’s charged with theft over their expense claims more than a little distasteful.

He is so determined to make political capital out of anything and everything he is in danger of ignoring natural justice.

Perhaps someone should remind him that we still have trial by jury in this country and as I understand it you are also innocent until proved guilty.

However, do I appreciate much of todays furore is over the MP’s claim that they will seek Parliamentary privilege and claim immunity from prosecution. Clearly that would be a nonsense and if they themselves are so convinced that they are innocent of the charges then they should be prepared to submit to the scrutiny of trial rather than searching for a way of avoiding trial which will only serve to further discredit MP’s and reopen the wound that is MP’s expenses.

As for David Cameron when he acknowledges that there is more to this than MP’s behaving badly and that the whole system is discredited and rotten and that we need root and branch reform, then I’ll take his comments on this issue more seriously.

We get the Government we deserve, and much less than half the population voted for this Government using a system that does not fairly represent the consensus within constituencies  and renders the election in many of the constituences pointless.

Reform is the key word and it’s about a lot more than expense claims.