The news in the last couple of days that neither Labour Peer Lord Paul nor Conservative Baroness Uddin will be prosecuted over their expenses will dismay a lot of people.
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Kier Starmer, has expressed his frustration that a member of the House of Lords can now designate somewhere as main home if they only visit it once a month; a change that only came into force very recently.
Peers are now free to claim hundreds of thousands of pounds at the tax-payers' expense for an address they hardly use.
Both the Government and the Opposition parties have made an awful lot of noise in recent months about the need to clean up the image of Parliament.
So close to a General Election, this will do nothing to get more people likely to vote and only serves to make an already highly-apathetic British public even less trusting of politicians.
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