Letters From A Tory Daily views on British politics and the Conservative Party from a centre-right thinker who writes letters on his blog to politicians, journalists and many others.

Dear Michael Martin,

Talk about a dog with a bone.  You just don’t give up, do you!  Having been bypassed and overruled on several occasions recently about MPs’ expenses, you obviously feel a need to make your own personal contribution to wasting taxpayers’ money by blowing £100,000 on trying to stop an investigation into MPs wasting taxpayers’ money.

You cannot stop the inevitable publication of MPs’ expenses.  As a representative of your local constituency, they (and indeed everyone else) has every right to know how you are spending their money on travel, a second home, your staff etc.  The House of Commons is very different from every other organisation in the country, because you are an elected official who has a say in decisions that affect the future of everyone in the UK and you deserve to be scrutinised on this basis.  Admittedly I don’t see why the exact addresses of second homes should be published because that doesn’t really help me decide whether my local MP is being profligate, but perhaps a street name or local area would be appropriate instead.   That aside, you have no grounds for complaining about this.

Your feet-stomping antics throughout the debate about MPs’ expenses makes me think two things: firstly, that you are not acting in the best interests of politics in this country; and secondly, that you have much more to hide than we first realised.

Yours disrespectfully,

A.Tory