The piggies are squealing now they can see the glint of  Sir Christopher Kelly’s knife coming to cut off their perks.  Sir Stuart Bell, the ridiculous trougher-in-chief, says somewhat disingenuously that “The House would want to look at these resolutions, to debate them… and have the opportunity to amend them.”

This is the problem, pigs don’t normally choose the manner of their  own butchering.  Our porcine political class determines their own fate which is why even when they are caughting cheating the public purse of hundreds of thousands (the Wintertons, Jacqui Smith) nothing happens.

Guido predicts that MPs will fight tooth and nail to keep sinecures for their spouses and children –  for example we pay £40,000 a year for Jacqui Smith’s husband to knock out expense claim forms when not knocking one out on the porn channel.  Sir George Young, the Tory Shadow Leader of the House, who is supposed be leading the charge for the clean up now Alan Duncan is too tainted, at one time employed both his wife and daughter.  The pigs will put up a fearsome fight to keep these perks…