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The row over our wonderful MP’s huge-and-inappropriate-money-spending-spree (and, indeed, our government in general) is reaching boiling point.

It hasn’t been handled very well at all, and the man overseeing it, Michael Martin, has been pressured into resigning in scenes that the Guardian are calling “unprecedented in the modern era.” It has even been suggested that if Martin digs in and doesn’t resign, he will face death “by a thousand cuts”. The votes of no confidence are piling up.

It’s quite ridiculous, really, and it’s an issue that should never have been allowed to happen in the first place. But it has happened, and now that it has, and now that we all know about it, it will be interesting to follow these “unprecedented scenes” and see how our magnificent and trustworthy government go about remedying the situation.

This BBC article notes that David Cameron has called for an immediate general election. But, presumably – and as Clegg is quoted as saying in the article – there is no point in changing a few faces around, but maintaining the same rules.

And so the saga continues…