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What A Darling!

Are you finding it difficult to make ends meet during this economic crisis? Then it must be a great comfort for you to know that our New Labour Government is living and eating of the best at our expense.

However, with every passing day you can't help but feel that Britain longs to get back to the days when decency prevailed, when regardless of the rules, if it didn't feel right, then it wasn't. Nowadays we have politicians, who know it feels wrong, but after re-taking advice can't believe their New Labour luck, that they can get away with it.

The latest in the dock of Public Opinion is Alistair Darling, who despite living at public expense rent-free at 11 Downing Street claimed thousands in second-home payments on his Edinburgh constituency home whilst renting out his London flat which he had designated as his main home.

In efforts to placate hostile public opinion Mr. Darling's spokeswoman stated that the benefit had been taxed and that his London home was rented out to cover costs, adding that he did not claim the maximum allowance for his second home in Edinburgh, indicating that last year he only claimed £9,837 of the possible £23,083 allowed. 

It will be interesting for us to see as it will for many around the country, how much Mr. Darling claimed in previous years and whether the costs, he claims are being covered in the rental of his London flat, include any profit or perceived benefit.

Shadow business secretary Ken Clarke when addressing the issue of politicians said "now we have an exaggerated public view that they are all thieves, they are all rogues, they are all lining their own pockets."

He is right for with every passing day, we await the next act of what many who live in want, consider betrayal. It is clear to many around this nation that with this New Labour Government came a landslide of deteriorating  values, morality, standards and decency. It has been downhill all the way for mainline Britain, whilst Hip Hip Hooray for our politicians.

We can but trust in the voters of Mr. Darling's constituency who will suffer greatly before the end of this recession, to vote out the man who lives technically within House of Commons rules, but well outside ours.