Gordon's taken us to the cleaners.

Is it me or are we all living in a parallel universe where the rules that apply to most hardworking human beings just don't apply to politicians? No wonder Gordon Brown was keen to get the rules on MPs' expenses sorted. He may have acted within the current guidelines but most 'hard working families' (his favourite group of people it seems) and certainly many of his constituents would struggle to be able to afford a cleaner, let alone have the gall to charge it to their employer.

Most employers would tell an employee where to get off if the bill for their cleaner appeared on the monthly expense sheet. However, the employers of Gordon Brown - us mugs called tax payers - are expected to roll over and agree to an expenses regime which, at best, is an abuse of MPs' power.

What's worse is that this is a Prime Minister who has lectured bankers about corporate greed, and made civil servants redundant to get Whitehall 'efficiencies' whilst he enjoyed perks and privileges about which most of us can only dream - and at our expense too.

Just to really make my day, I have remembered that no-one elected him as our PM (and I know the constitutional arguments about why this is not necessary) and we are going to have to suffer this man for another 12 months before getting an opportunity to remove him. Suddenly an army coup seems quite attractive.

Here's a great petition I found today - click here. Sadly Gordon 'You Tube' Brown is unlikely to take any notice of it.