We’ve had revelations about the exorbitant expense claims of Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs but are there any MP’s who haven’t taken advantage? There must be some.

I’ve heard some describe it as small beer – and anyway don’t we all fiddle our expenses? To be honest I’ve never been in a position where I could claim expenses – how about the stationary cabinet? Haven’t we all taken a few pens over the years? You know I’m not sure that’s the same – I’d have to steal a hell of a lot of pens and to be honest I can’t remember the last time I used a pen from the stationary cabinet – personally I use a fountain pen and you won’t find ink in the stationary cupboard these days – you know this is off the point – one person doing something wrong is no justification for others wrong doing.

Well the MP with the lowest expense claims for 2007-2008 according to the BBC is Philip Hollobone, Conservative MP for Kettering at just £47,737 although £22,999 of that is for the ubiquitous second home allowance – still that’s considerably less than the £187,334 that Eric Joyce, Labour MP for Falkirk claims. So a quick scan of the figures reveals that no, perhaps there aren’t any good MP’s.