Every time you read this I'm claiming expenses.

Still haven't got a van (see previous post) but got a month to go. Up to £35 so far, but haven't really started collecting yet. Good to see Milton Keynes Dons and Leeds crash out - nothing against them, and personally the thought of Millwall living in our division is as encouraging as rectal surgery followed by a dodgy korma - but the Dons' stadium would have been a rather large fly in the ointment, possibly one who's just enjoyed a meal of cowpats and rotten poo.

I don't think there's been a week like it for politics. Just as worrying as what was claimed is the fact that for a lot of these leeches it was perfectly legal.

My favourite was moat man Douglas Hogg, claiming £2,000 to have his moat dredged at his 13th century estate in Sleaford, about 40 miles away. Hilarious, especially the interview where he was pursued by rabid reporters. An old Eton toff caught with his snout in the trough.

I looks as if the speaker of the house is going as well. The speaker should be a representative of the MPS and nominally is the most important person in the house after GB. But Michael Martin has been berating those who want the transgressors punished, and what's more, appeared to have done his best to stop the expenses ever getting out.

What happened to the noble art of representing a constituency? It should be something anyone can aspire to, and yet it just seems to be a way now of making a quick buck and getting your Double Decker paid for. I don't begrudge them second homes - it's a logical step - but I do begrudge them £8,000 plasma screen TVs (for that amount I'd expect a TV that can watch programmes from 2013 and create pop up porn stars in my bedroom), hanging baskets and trouser presses that I'm paying for.

So what moves will be taken. Maybe we should be able to declare votes of no confidence in our MPs, but I'm not sure enough people care one way or the other. Maybe the independent expenses group will clear it all up, but these people will be regarded as corrupt no matter what now.

I do think the career politician is coming to an end.

Experts should be running our country. In a simplified form, scientists would advise on scientific matters, and lawyers would advise on legal matters, and doctors, architects, environmentalists, economists etc etc etc. When MPs have to vote on a contentious issue - MMR, adoption, abortion - they read papers from experts, that have been compiled on research, and informed knowledge. So why not cut out the political fat-cats and go for the experts? If we voted in 100 for each sector we'd have a fantastic bank of skill, knowledge and opinion shaping our country, presumably from a wide variety of backgrounds, ages and races. Sure, they would still get expenses - but we would get value for our money rather than old Oxbridge buffoons.

Let me know what you think.