Hypocrisy makes the world go round

The 'Hypocrisy' two bottle gift set
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Hypocrisy - if only we could bottle it, then we could sell it for a fortune!

Let's look at some of the recent examples :

David Laws - put in charge of cutting the public sector and then caught fiddling his expenses

The five MPs currently being prosecuted for expenses fiddles - they sit in parliament and makes laws, and then when they are caught breaking them say they don't apply to them. Unbelievable!

Diane Abbott - bangs on about education based on merit rather than ability to pay, and then sends her son to a private school.

Alex Salmond - branded a hypocrite for slagging off Westminster's gravy train and then accepting a golden goodbye when he stands down as an MP - despite the fact that he is still in a job in Scotland with a 6 figure salary

The government bangs on about cutting costs and then spends 18 grand topping up the House of Commons wine cellar

John Prescott - takes money for making a documentary about the unfairness of the class system and then accepts a peerage

But there are a few glimmers of hope.

David Cameron this week turned down the lifetime pension that he became entitled to as soon as he became PM

Nationwide building society's CEO turned down the proportion of his huge bonus that would have meant he got a big pay increase compared to last year.

John Baron, the Conservative MP, gave the £60,000 profit on his second home to charity when he was perfectly entitled to keep it.

I could go on and on - and to be fair I usually do - but I am sure you could think of a good few more I haven't mentioned....