Moonlighting MPs

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Ed Miliband's has tried to divert attention from Jack Straw and Labour's involvement in the latest 'cash for access' scandal at Westminster by declaring that after the general election new rules should be introduced to restrict MPs' earnings from outside interests.

 But if you ask me Ed's intervention is truly pathetic, because the Labour leader conveniently ignores the elephant in the room that is Gordon Brown who has been operating as a part-time MP for much of 2010-2015 Parliament.

 As regular readers know Gordon Brown accepted a teaching post with the New York University which committed the former Labour leader and Prime Minister to spend 70 days a year in Abu Dhabi.

 Now that's 70 full working days (not counting travel) when Gordon has been unavailable to do his day job as an MP in the House of Commons or in his local constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.  

 Yet Ed Miliband has had nothing to say about this blatant example of moonlighting on the Labour benches which makes the House of Commons looks completely ridiculous. 

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