Tony McNulty in the "second homes" home for the bewildered!

Tony McNulty is the type of politician that drives those with opposing views to distraction. He is a very good dissembler, a weaver of truth and misinformaton, making a verbal cloth of believable rhetoric that eventually leaves the listener thinking that it was all a load of hogwash.

As with the Home Secretary, McNulty is in a second homes expenses row. He has been using his parents home in Harrow to kip at whilst doing constituency work. He lives in Hammersmith. Rather than get home, he had been claiming expenses for the use of the Harrow "home". Apparently he pocketed £60,000 until in January, when he got all funny about it and claimed it was not quite right, so he stopped taking the cash. My guess is that he realised he was pulling the same fast trick that Jacqui Smith was doing, so he thought he could just drop it and it would all fade away.

He says there are "anomalies" in the expenses system and they do need to be looked at. Not in so much detail that he hands back the £60,000! It's all very shoddy. MPs need to have proper expenses for doing a proper job. The trouble is that they all get to vote on their own expense limits and conditions.

They have proved to be incapable of probity, integrity or any sense of decency in this regard. There are some honourable exceptions, but most are playing the system.

I resent this, because the perpetual seediness of it all is just like having a big fat recruiting sergeant sitting in Westminster handing out gullible voters to the BNP. That is the party of protest now. Have a look at their website. All about sleaze and the shoddiness of MPs, councillors, bankers and others. You can't have pert little prigs like Hazel Blears rabitting on about the dangers of having BNP MEPs in June when they are feeding them with this sort of fodder.

It's an own goal in the self-destruction stakes. Every day we get some withering remark, some reasoning of the insane to say that it is all OK. Well, it's not!

McNulty is just one more in a long line of greedy self-servers whose actions cause a devastating reaction. We need this nonsense to stop. Let someone take charge of giving these parliamentarians a proper expense programme. We need change - NOW!