The recent high profile cases over the MPs who were found guilty of fiddling expenses raises some serious questions, not just about the hard facts and legal side of the cases, but about the morality of the people that are supposed to be serving the country.

I am sure that these cases have been discussed far and wide by respected employment law solicitors in Worcestershire and across the country and most people you speak to have very fixed ideas on the cases in question. Whether or not MPs, prosecuted or not, were acting inside of the law or outside of the law is one thing, but how could they have not known that what they were doing was morally wrong?

Maybe it is not the individual MPs who are to blame but the system itself, which was at best badly constructed and at worst open to widespread abuse.

It seems that the very culture at the heart of claiming MP expenses was corrupt and it was somehow considered as normal to claim for things that were really taking the mick out of taxpayers. Did these MPs ever question whether they were doing the right thing in claiming the absolute maximum they could, even if it was within the law?

I find it incredible that these people who were supposed to have the interest of the country at heart put their own interests and pockets first.