No surprise

Guido reports today that MPs have surreptitiously increase their subsistence allowance from £400 a month to £500. As before no receipts are required. Expect then to see reports next year of increased allowances for MPs. Obviously they don't care about public opinion. Obviously they don't need to care about public opinion because the electoral machinery of our so-called democracy has been stitched up to keep out potential renegades.

The lesson that might be learned from Ian Gibson's defenestration is that what really doesn't pay is to question the policies of party leadership.