I know, I thought! I’ll break my writers block by picking through a local MP’s expenses, available online today from the internet.

She claims the maximum £400 a month for food and £100 a month for a cleaner for her London flat. It’s all fairly prosaic and mundane really. The only unusual expense claim is a training course on how to give good speeches for the princely sum of £250 and she already confessed that to the local rag.

Yawn. Break my blogging block this will not.

Verdict: She likes her food and doesn’t like housework (I know, I know, most people hate food and love housework. What a freak!) but she’s not corrupt as far as I can tell. She’s just another backbench Labour non-entity, not even a hundredth of the person that her predecessor Alice Mahon was.