Expenses debacle sideshow

We all want probity from our elected representatives. There you go, that's was both easy to believe and write. The storm over MPs expenses could be easily solved by adding £30,000 to their salaries, as Matthew Paris suggests. There are many technical solutions to ExpenseGate but the only political solution is for someone, anyone might do, to start fighting for leadership, for our hearts and minds and try and offer up real some solutions to the big issue of the day: the recession. It's May and summer is promising heat and back-to-back reporting on MPs receipts and expense claims, meanwhile the Bank of England is injecting another £50bn into the UK economy because quantitative easing isn't working.