TheEye is not a Sun reader. This has a lot to do with the fact that the crossword is too easy and that it is easier to be irritating in public with a strategically deployed broadsheet in a confined area.

However The Sun Says today is rather good. In a week when we found out that we had a staggering 29,000 politicians and placemen (one-third of the strength of the Army) costing us half a billion a year, The Sun goes on the attack:

“We are in the middle of the worst financial crash in living memory. Our heroes are fighting and dying in a vicious war 3,500 miles from home. And our MP’s are about to take one of their longest holidays ever. Next Tuesday politicians pack their bags and leave Westminister for 12 weeks. This is after 24 days off at Christmas and New Year, a 10-day winter half-term break, a 17-day Easter holiday and 10 days at Whitsun.

You might think they would have reconsidered their 82-day summer snooze if only to restore their reputation after the expenses scandal.

No one wants even more interference in their lives by MP’s hanging around looking for things to do. We are already over-governed. That is why their numbers – currently a bloated 646 – need cutting in half. Just like the holiday time of those who are left. Then they can do a proper job of vetting what Ministers do, instead of nodding though half-baked laws.”

Personally this could have been worded a whole lot stronger and still found TheEye nodding in agreement, but read the whole article here.