So many of you have wanted to talk to me about the MPs' expenses scandals (following my Comment last week) that it has been mighty difficult to get enough time to produce this week's paper!
That is one small measure of how angry you all are, just as I am, over the way some arrogant people behave.
What on earth made any of them think it was right, proper or morally correct to claim for such things as garden manure, repairing swimming
pools, garden flowers and a £65 summons for non-payment of council tax, beggars belief.
One call I received had me laughing. A lovely lady asked me why the newspaper cannot start a campaign to get the Queen to dissolve parliament.
What a lovely idea. It had be imagining a monarch, with his palace guard behind him, marching into the Commons, frog-marching MPs out and taking them all to the Tower. If only!
I doubt if there's any hope, either, that we can take a leaf out of the French history books and bring in Madame Guillotine.
However, hats off to the Daily Mail and Taxpayers' Alliance for considering the possibility of bringing private prosecutions against some of the worst offenders over the expenses scandal.
But what is worrying me is why police have not gone marching into Whitehall to conduct their own criminal inquiry.
The police should be acting totally independently of Parliament. Day after day the Daily Telegraph has disclosed most questionable expense claims, but why are police so reluctant to even start an investigation?
If that had been an ordinary Jo Blogg with his nose in the trough, police would be all over him.
I am so tired of hearing of cases where there is one rule for some and another for the rest. The Sharon Rowe shoplifting allegation is a perfect example.
One last point, made by many of you in calls to me. How dare these MPs who display so low moral attitudes decide what is best or not for us?
How low have we sunk as a society that from the top to the bottom, from MPs to chavs, people put themselves first and to hell with anyone else.
Those with a religious belief must be asking, is this the cue for the second coming of the Saviour?
The joys of trying to sell your house Foolishly, perhaps, during the housing slump, we have been trying to sell our house. After months we found buyers. They agreed a price after a bit of wrangling, had a second viewing, and gave us every impression they wanted to proceed.
We spent the weekend viewing about a dozen properties and the very next day the bombsell dropped they no longer wanted to proceed because "our second bedroom was a bit too small!"
Oh for the Scottish system, where if you agree a price and a purchase and if you pull out you lose 10 per cent deposit. That exercises purchasers' minds perfectly.
Instead, from this pathetic government, all we got was money-wasting HIPS.
