If you were an MP

What really gets me is the who second home concept.

Over the years I have had to move for career development.

Did my new employer pay for me to run another house near the new appointment whilst I kept my old house?

Not in a million years would any employer expense a second home perhaps just an hours drive away ... yet these guys have been expensing the whole lot.

As for forgetting you have paid off your mortgage and keep claiming it beggers belief.

All this anger and rage....? Come on guys, it's not like they're spending
billions and billions of your taxpayers money on the continuing
development and arming of nuclear weapons. Weapons that quite frankly
have little other strategic use than to wipe out vast civilian populations
and making land masses completely uninhabitable.
Oh wait...... that's exactly what they're doing.
You don't pay tax, they TAKE tax.
And if they're going to take my money without asking in the first place,
I'd far rather it be used to clean a swimming pool or buy some porn than I
would it be used to create nuclear warheads.

If I were a minister I'd by a fleet of foiling moths for me and all my
friends and claim it as investment and research in to eco freindly
transport.
OOOO we could make a film similar to 'Birds' by Alfred Hitchcock. We'll
have thousands of us in moths circling, pecking and attacking any gin
palaces in sight!! Except rather than pecking, we'll have potassium and
ceasium we can through at it.

Thats it James let it all out!!!!

So that'll be the difference between "I don't give a sh*t" and " I don't give a sh*t because no-one in the political world agrees with my every thought" will it? Has it occurred to you that no-one with real political experience and knowledge shares your - apparently pretty extreme libertarian - views because they know something you don't?

On another issue, it's a little rich to blame the media so strongly for the state of politics, and then say you won't vote for the Greens because they lack media coverage!!!!

I've always thought that, in order to separate the ones who can't be bothered from the ones who hate all the candidates, there should be a "none of the above" box on the ballot paper, and if "none of the above" wins, the constituancy gets a plastic dummy sat on the benches at Parliament to remind all the MPs that they can be replaced by a mannikin.
As for a sailing related claim, I would like to employ my family as professional sailors on my expense account yacht, for which I would claim mooring fees on the Thames and the Solent.