MPs Expenses

The MPs Expenses scandal is briefly in the news today, because one of those MPs (the guy who claimed public money to get his moat cleaned) has been elevated to the peerage. Now, this story annoyed me from the start, and the ease with which The Press, here taken as a reverse-synecdoche for Rupert Murdoch and all his sort, has diverted attention from their own stranglehold on power, and made mocking MPs a national sport, depresses me. So I tweeted a sarcastic tweet. My old friend Matt responded. Our exchange is storyfied in part below.