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Harman is making it worse and worse by trying to justify it and pissing everyone off in the process, Harriet dont try and defend the indefensible, hold your hands up, i’d have more respect.

The Telegraph Story is a full 10 pages tomorrow, its huge.

Anna Botting hit Harman with it on Sky.

• Business Secretary Lord Mandelson's claim for thousands of pounds to improve his constituency home in Hartlepool after he had announced his resignation as an MP. • Communities Secretary Hazel Blears claiming for three different properties in a single year, spending almost £5,000 of taxpayers' money on furniture in three months. • Foreign Secretary David Miliband spending hundreds of pounds on gardening at his constituency home. • Chancellor Alistair Darling changing his official "second home" designation four times in four years. • Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon switching his second home in a way which allowed him to improve his family home in Derbyshire at taxpayers' expense before buying a London townhouse. • Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, Europe minister Caroline Flint and Welsh Secretary Paul Murphy buying flats - or the freehold on properties they already owned - and claiming back stamp duty and other moving costs.

and now everyone knows he was attempting a cover up which makes it even worse. This is going to bring down the Govt, you watch, it will snowball.

3 cabinet members claimed back the stamp duty on their properties. Flint, Burnham and Murphy. Bastards.

Oh Straws in deep shi", he only paid it back today after the newspaper nailed him on it.

yes but you can be guaranteed all anger will be directed at the cabinet, they are meant to be setting the example. Cameron should deselect and fire any bad mps immediately to gain the upper hand. Force Brown to call an election now, his cabinet is now paralysed.

This could be it, The Labour Govt Downfall.

They have just tosed out little titbits, they have the big guns for the headlines tomorrow. You watch. harriets getting hammered on Sky, this is going to be ace. Brown gave his brother £6,000 to pay half a cost of a cleaner. hahaha this is going to be good.

and when have we believed any of them?

cant wait to find out who is the "sauna" mp, and the "suicide watch" mps , the "shagger" mps, the "piggy" mp's, the "foreign trip" mps, who else? So How many do we reckon will have to resign and is this it, the straw that breaks the camels back and Brown goes meltdown.

can anyone else smell a perfect storm here gathering over No10. Now if Cameron is smart, anyone abusing on his side should be fired immediately by him or told they are deselected. He needs to get the high ground fast on this.

we've been hearing rumblings all day of something about to break, i suspect its why the mail is also snooping around Smiths, council thing. The Telegraph has seen the writing on the wall here, downfalls sell and theres no loyalty in journalism, you’re as as useful as they need you, they would turn of browns life support as quick as lightening..

Can this day get any better, Smith getting shafted in the news again, Lumley skewers the Govt and now this, OMG, I will wet myself if anythig else happens.

http://www.iaindale.blogspot.com/ GRAB THE POPCORN Stay tuned tonight. The Telegraph has apparently bought the complete disk of MPs' expenses, which might explain Mr Brogan's light blogging today. They are splashing on it tomorrow, but I imagine Messers Robinson and Bradby may cover it at 10pm. All other lobby hacks are meanwhile looking green and thinking up spoilers...

You and I both know, its another spin from Brown to try and win an election and if he did win it, he'd u-turn on this so fast, he'd look like the girl in the Exorcist. Do Not Trust Brown.

Sounds like a bit of pressure applied there, because they obviously have no clue if they can swap estimates that fast, its bull, thats someone from No10 telling them to revise their prediction.

Its exactly what it is, loss of authority in every thing. Like children when they get a chance to payback the parent if they are not kept in line. Brown has lost control of the media narrative and can't get it back, the media smells blood and the pack of wolves is circling, the media will make a mint out of tearing Labour down, its inevitable. How long Brown holds out for is anybodys guess but no way Brown come back from this. Old saying and you all know it. It takes a lifetime to earn trust and reputation, 2 seconds to ruin it. (they are crucifying him, even the guardian smells blood) Brown should do the decent thing and go now because the mp's and media are no longer in fear and are not towing the line.

Brown deliberately only touched the MP's expenses debacle because he knows there is about to one almighty explosion on that front when things are published, he isnt doing it for the good of the nation, its to cover his backside. He intended to ram it through yesterday without any of the detail, knew he was going to lose spectacularly on the biggest issues of second homes per diem and the govt would have collapsed, hence he shuffled it out of view with a hasty retreat. He only did this because he was warned that to lose another vote in succession to the Gurkhas meant he would have been told to go by this morning by senior Labour officials. Brown also deliberately tried to stitch up the opposition parties by having Gorbals Mick withdraw the losing votes and then ram through anything that he could possibly win on, so he could say "oh look i am reforming it all for you". You really are an idiot if you think he's doing any of this for the public, Brown is doing this all for himself to grandstand.

God Hillary Benn is odious, he's just lying through gritted teeth.

Hillary Benn being slaughtered. Brown being asked to resign......oooooh.

Not long it seems oi oi oi The Times front page Brown faces Commons defeat on expenses after Tories drop support on vote Oh happy days. Today is gonna be fun.

oi oi oi The Times front page Brown faces Commons defeat on expenses after Tories drop support on vote Oh happy days. Today is gonna be fun.

I did see a Ben Unkerman now that was funny.