Now there is a thought

I am watching what is really quite a pointless debate on MP's expenses now that Gordon Brown has decreed that it will go fully to the Committee on Standards in Public Life.

Iain Dale has a theory why though

"Remind me, what is the Commons debating today? And whose idea was it to have a vote on expenses today? And didn't Number 10 know that today was the day of British troops withdrawal when they decided that MPs should spend the whole day talking about expenses?"