<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a734f908-cedb-48a5-89d6-68383eb90c0e/B4EF67C6-A71E-4FDA-A13A-8C944CF20494/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:b4ef371b-38d5-48f3-a170-1658b5afed83" href="http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:b4ef371b-38d5-48f3-a170-1658b5afed83" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.news.sky.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:b4ef371b-38d5-48f3-a170-1658b5afed83"><H4>"McNumpty" & The Gravy Train</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:b4ef371b-38d5-48f3-a170-1658b5afed83"><P>If you expect a new probe into MPs' expenses to bring the House of Commons gravy train shuddering to a halt, I fear you'll be disappointed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:b4ef371b-38d5-48f3-a170-1658b5afed83"><P>The Committee on Standards in Public Life - that's a quango all of whose members are appointed by the Prime Minister - is to hold an inquiry into MPs' allowances.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:b4ef371b-38d5-48f3-a170-1658b5afed83"><P>But don't hold your breath. The inquiry won't start until "towards the end of this year" and won't report until "early in the life of the new Parliament".</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:b4ef371b-38d5-48f3-a170-1658b5afed83"><P>"McNumpty", as the Daily Mirror dubbed the chain-smoking bruiser, earns £104,050 a year and is married to quango queen Christine Gilbert of Ofsted, who earns £225,000 a year. (The Tories' Alan Duncan, however, tells me he's been calling McNulty that for years.)</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B4EF67C6-A71E-4FDA-A13A-8C944CF20494/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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