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Heard an interesting interview this morning with a chap who was one of Tony Blair's team in the early days, when he said that because MPs only get £60 odd thousand a year, it has been an unwritten rule that they made up there wages by using the expense system, that it was a noted thing, and that old hands in the commons usually took the newbies to one side and tipped them the wink as to what to do and how to do it, that is of course before they realised that their exes were going to be published, now things have quietened down. You couldn't make it up could you