Final episode of Season 5 tonight on Sky 1. I’ve seen it, I can vouch for the fact it’s going to melt your brains and make things start making sense. At the same time. Perhaps. Watch it anyway, for it is great and wonderful and all that.

But perhaps you haven’t been watching Lost. Perhaps you don’t know what the fuss is about. Well, I’m on hand to help. Blu-Ray versions of the first two seasons come out on the 15th of June. Assuming you buy them straight away, I’m putting you on a diet of 3 episodes a week, moving up to 4 episodes when you reach the end of a series.

That’s the pace you need to go at if you want to be fully caught up in time for the launch of the final season starting, approximately, 20th of June.

You have your instructions people: Move It!

A bit of a parish notice this. I’m going to stop writing about the MP’s expenses scandal now. I’ve watched traffic to the blog plummet over the last few days – can’t really argue with hard evidence that you’re getting bored.

So moving on then. Perhaps I should join Liberal Conspiracy in talking about the other great issue of the day: Left Wing Populist Leader In Saying Whatever It Takes To Get Elected Then Doing Something Else Once Elected complete non-shocker. That’s a story right?

Or, hey, the Chairman of Lloyds is having to step down over the shotgun wedding of strong viable bank Lloyds to complete nightmare bank HBOS without proper due diligence in an almost play for play rerun of the RBS/Ambro merger. This is despite the fact that Governments have always tried to save failing companies by forcing strong companies to merge with them, and the result seems to be universally that the failing company damages the strong company as well.

Meanwhile, yesterday, I saw the first talking head on television complaining about the size of deposits required, demanding action to reduce the amount of deposits people need to take out Mortgages. Calls for sensible banking only lasted as long as people didn’t realise it meant they’d have to actually save up to be able to get on the housing ladder.

Jack Straw quietly drops his plans for secret inquests, and Jacqui Smith reveals that Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs will have access to the ID cards system.

Perhaps the really interesting stuff is going to be the things that get slipped out while it’s a ‘good time to bury bad news’

The Leader’s Office tells me Clegg is 100% behind the idea that the public should have the ability to recall an MP and force a by-election if they’re found to be guity of wrongdoing by the Committee of Standards. Well, good. MPs expenses are “the tip of an iceberg” as far as what’s wrong with Parliament goes and it’s good to hear the same.

But this is why the Speaker needs to go – this is the sort of reform that necessary (importantly, a Committee of Standards that will actually be willing to sanction those MPs that have crossed that line). We need a speaker who’s priority is bringing much needed transparency and integrity to the house, rather than one trying his best to conceal the sleaze and the dirt. It’s the difference between actually washing up the dishes or simply hiding the dirty dishes in a cupboard. It might look the same at first glance, but you’ve still got a cupboard full of mouldy plates – and no clean cups for essential cups of tea.

Something needs to happen to the wrongdoing MPs for a sense of justice to prevail, for clear dividing lines to be drawn between those MPs that have behaved honourably and those that have not.

Even the Queen’s getting worried about all this. As a curious side note, it seems the complete reversal of Blair’s height of popularity is nearly complete. The Monarch is now the one in tune with public feeling, while the Prime Minister remains in blissful, insulated willful ignorance.

He’s not just the Sub Prime Minister – he’s the Sub Prime Minister of a Sub Prime Parliament.

Clegg has called on the Speaker to go, identifying the Speaker as a roadblock to reform of MP’s expenses and the house.

“A defender of the status quo is not the right person to do that job”

This is unprecedented – no party leader has ever called on a speaker to resign before. It is so unprecedented that it wins Clegg top story on the BBC News website, the Guardian and the Times within minutes.

I’m going to congratulate Clegg for this. He has finally found a way to show people what he believes in instead of simply telling people what he believes in. By defying convention – convention that he blames for creating the crisis in the first place – he’s actually doing something to help clean up the House of Commons at the root. No more should Westminister be embodied by a speaker so determined and intent on protecting the status quo.

In many respects, this is Clegg fulfilling a promise he made a long time ago to challenge this status quo of the cosy Westminster bubble. He must continue with this momentum and resolve the outstanding questions hanging over our MPs and Lords, and if he does he will have demonstrated, once and for all, that he’s as fine a leader for our party as we could have hoped for.

I’m under no illusions about how much of a battering the mainstream parties are going to take as a result of this issue. No matter how ‘good’ this might be, the ferocity of anger towards the political class is such that there are few opportunities for any politician to win here. Fellow Lib Dem blogger Darrell Goodliffe is right to point out that most people’s anger is directed towards MPs, not the Speaker of the House. For this to count it needs to be made very clear how removal of the Speaker actually helps resolve the current crisis.

It’s telling that suddenly -  suddenly – the Lib Dems are now considered one of the big establishment parties. This is bad for us. It reminds me that HBOS used to go to a lot of trouble to avoid being called one of the “Big Five” banks – they wanted there to be a “Big Four” with HBOS as the plucky, challenging outsider. Of all the times to find ourselves in the “Big Three”, this is possibly the worst.

Sometimes a bit of iconoclasm can go a long way.

Guido draws attention to Simon Hoggart’s observation in the Guardian that the MPs Expenses Scandal is as yet unnamed.

Putting my communications hat on for a moment, the fact that this scandal does not have a name makes it significantly more powerful. Consider: Watergate. Watergate is the name of a hotel. It does not explain what the scandal was all about, who was involved or what crime was actually committed. In fact, “Watergate” obscures the details of the scandal, robbing people of understanding.

We call this scandal the ‘MP’s Expenses Scandal’ because that’s exactly what it is. People are left in no doubt as to what’s going on. We could give it a name: Bob? Charles? Who cares. All we’re doing is adding a layer of obfuscation between what’s happened and how we talk about it. So, no thanks, no clever name please: Let’s have reality and let’s concentrate on getting the matter resolved rather than try to find new, clever and witty ways to talk about it.