Harriet Harman - BNP recruiting sergeant!

It is now a tragedy rather than farce. The Daily Telegraph has done us a service by publishing leaked details of the expenses of Cabinet members. Details they wanted to keep secret. Harriet Harman has been on the radio and television this morning "defending" her Cabinet colleagues over these expenses. She is still trying to say that it was all within the rules. This woman has gone from toff to twat in a political generation. She claims the expenses were made in "good faith". Come off it! Just because the rules may suggest you can claim for mock tudor beams in your second home doesn't mean you have the absolute right to milk the system dry. Has she lost her marbles?

All this craven support for the morally corrupt behaviour of politicians gives daily ammunition to the BNP. As Harriet Harman waffles on, protecting the unrepentant sleaze merchants from their own failings, the BNP is proudly parading a dumper truck round Manchester with some fat pigs in it. All to show the electorate how sleazy the politicians in Westminster are. Harman might as well drive the truck herself. She's given them more publicity material than they could ever hope for.

Whilst sticking to her mantra that all claims were within the rules, she feebly admits "I know this looks bad and people are angry." Too true! It's gone from casual sleaze to gratuitous fraud. These people are no longer accidentally making accounting errors, they are systematically defrauding the system.

Jack Straw claimed his entire council tax bill for his second home despite already enjoying a substantial discount from his local authority, worth a reported £1,500 a year. Now don't tell me that was an oversight. It's fraud and it's against the law!

So Harriet Harman has no defence for her chiselling cronies. All she is is one big recruiting sergeant for the BNP!