Truckers will bring parts of London and parts of Wales to a standstill over the cost of fuel. But reports that MPs earning more than £61,000 a year might be planning to award themselves no-questions-asked annual expenses of £23,000 - to pay for £90-a-time window cleaning, £6,500 gardening, a £3,000 shower, and (unbelievably) their bloody life insurance payments - is received with a kind of what can you do? shrug. At a time when families are facing increasing mortgage and rental costs, there are only two things more hideous than our so-called "right honourable" elected representatives' wholesale and cavalier greed. 1 - their undignified and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to conceal the truth from the taxpayers (which costs the said taxpayers a further £200,000 in legal bills). 2 - this latest arrogant, unreconstructed response... a shameless attempt to ensure their future ability to thieve from the people without the embarrassment of getting caught.

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