WHEN SOMEONE CLOSES A DOOR, SOMEWHERE, SOMEONE OPENS A WINDOW...

...And so it is with our bold boys. The Daily Mail has headlined these fine chancers. Technically probably they are doing nothing wrong, although if they were “ordinary people” claiming benefits from the same government that they are claiming their expenses from, they would have the book thrown at them.

Instead.................... during this time of hardship for the country; this time when people all over the UK are losing jobs because people like them, these four members of the Labour and Tory parties, were not holding the last government to account; were not keeping an eye on the property boom which most people’s pet canaries could have told you would burst at some point; au contraire, they were enjoying the property boom themselves with the capital being supplied by none other than daft mugs, you and me..............these people are profiteering from the new regulations.

As they are no longer allowed to claim mortgage repayments what they do is rent out their houses which we paid for, and move into rented accommodation themselves, which... you guessed it.... we pay for. They then collect the rent on the property that we bought for them.

Sometimes I wish we still sent people to the Tower of London to get their greedy heads cut off.

I reproduce these picture stories from The Mail on Sunday, where you can read a more detailed (and possibly a more measured) account of their murky doings. You can't turn your back on them for ten minutes, can you?