The Old Bill Goes In

Rozzers: some last minute truncheon practice before the raid

So Scotland Yard has decided to investigate four MPs and a Peer for their mortgage frauds. About time!

Suspects on their list include phantom mortgage claimants Chaytor and Morley according to the Speccy. Marvellous.

Somehow, though, I have a feeling that these abusers of public office and breakers of the law will get away with it. And if that happens, given that this pair, along with fellow Labourist fraudsters Hope and Moran, are the worst of the worst, then there will be no convictions at all of any of the hundreds of MPs who've been fiddling the system (by avoiding capital gains tax, for instance).

We shall see.