Seeing and hearing reports in the media about the way Members of Parliament abuse their positions, I become more and more convinced that the electorate of this country are being misled by a gang of cash and sex-obsessed con men (or to be politically correct, con persons).

What with tax payers’ money being used to hire porno films, sex games being played out in the palace of Westminster and furnishing the homes of extended family members out of public funds.

I read just yesterday that the speaker of the House of Lords (reported annual salary £137,000) is having a new bath installed in her Westminster apartment – cost £1,000.

Not a £200 job from B&Q but one thousand pounds.

I ask you, if that’s not taking the mick, I don’t know what is.

Having said all that, the most outrageous thing to emerge from this sorry debacle is the enormous self-importance these people attach to themselves.

Their inflated egos will not allow them to concede that they are in the wrong morally, if not legally.

Do they not realise that they are only in the position that they are because of the very people they are now misleading?

How can they justify standing up in the Commons pouring scorn and derision on fat-cat bankers while doing the same sort of thing themselves.

Finally, I am not in favour of the big brother state but I wouldn’t mind seeing the bars and restaurants of the House of Commons bugged.

Then, while they consume their subsidised food and drink and smoke their big cigars, we would possibly hear what they really think of the great British public.

JOHN SMITH e-mail jean.and.john @btinternet.com