The news that Derek Conway MP has been reported to the Standards Board for paying his son £11,000 to do research work for him whilst in fact being away at university in Newcastle suggests they have a little problem with the rules, as does the fact that some 80 Tory MP’s have been reported to the Electoral Commission for failing to register donations to their campaign funds.

 

The sainted Mr Cameron features on that list along with his Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, although so far the media seems to have been reluctant to mention that fact when Peter Hain and now Alan Johnson are being dragged through the mud.

 

If this isn’t sufficient evidence that the Tories have changed their logo but not their attitude to the rules, which is that they are there for the little people not for them, then consider the comments Cameron made in an interview published in the Times recently.

 

He said that he would not join in the popular criticism of wealthy parents with ‘sharp elbows’ who lied about their faith to get their children a place in a good school. So much for the rose tinted vision of a Britain where everyone starts from the same line promised in his ludicrous ‘off the cuff’ speech at his party conference then.

 

In Cameron’s Britain help yourself and stuff everyone else would be the whole of the law.

 

Leopards might, sometimes, change their spots; old Etonians clearly don’t.