MP's Expenses

None of us are perfect, we are all capable of making genuine mistakes, we can even become greedy and overstep the mark if we are not careful, but what our MP's have claimed for their expenses and how they have worked and manipulated a faulty system to their own advantage beggars belief. The news emerging about MP's expenses is disturbing - partly because we expect our leaders to be honest - and if they aren't they have compromised their moral right to govern and direct the way the rest of us live and behave.
It is now very difficult for the Tories or either of the other two main parties to talk about Britain being a broken society or morally bankrupt when they have so powerfully demonstrated by their behaviour over some considerable period of time that they are as morally bereft as anyone and probably more than most. These people have set themselves up as leaders of the country and having been found out are now compounding their dilemma by trying to blame "the system" and pretend they made genuine mistakes. How can you forget that you have paid off your £800 a month mortgage and carry on claiming for it, or deliberately flip your housing arrangements so you can make multiple claims on your properties and call this type of deliberately calculated behaviour "a mistake." Admittedly the system was faulty but our MP's have used it to their advantage and now they have been uncovered are offering to pay back the money they mistakenly claimed. These people who are amongst the most intellgent and most clearly thought through people in the country don't make, or at least shouldn't make those sort of mistakes and obviously screwed the faulty system for every penny they could get out of it. The double whammy is that they now insult our intelligence by expecting us to believe their flimsy cover up.
Their greed, sefishness and blatant dishonesty has damaged politics, the cause of fair and honest people, and in the long term potentially caused a lot of damage to every area of life in the UK, especially the area concerned with moral issues. An obvious concern being aired increasingly by political commentators is that the public's disillusionment with the politicians in our main parties may result in smalller and more extreme parties like the BNP gaining more seats in the future - heaven forbid. The only possible solution is for the constituencies of those who have made outrageous and morally indefensible expenses claims to sack their MP's and reappoint those who will have a better understanding of what is appropriate behaviour and perhaps be in possession of a more accurate moral compass. In summing up, I guess that what we are seeing amongst our leaders is the effect of what happens when a nation, and especially its leaders turn their back on God and have no foundation for a moral code.