Modeling Journey

The daily drip drip drip of revelations of the unwise, ridiculous, in some cases illegal, and generally questionable expensing by MPs of Britain's mother parliament has evoked a call by the Archbishop of Canterbury to spare the feelings of the MPs:

"But Labour peer Lord Campbell Savours, one of the original campaigners for the Freedom of Information Act, said the archbishop's claims that the expenses controversy threatened democracy were "rubbish".

"It's not undermining democracy at all. It's not threatening democracy," he said. "It will lead to a change in the expenses system in the House of Commons, which many Members of Parliament would welcome.""

The Cat agrees with the Peer – the Archbishop is wrong on this score.

The press should continue to name them and shame them; that is the best way to lance the abscess of immoral expense claims, and usher in a better system.

Oh, and just when can Canadians expect similar incisive investigatory journalism regarding any defects in our system of remunerating our own MPs?