The situation with Parliament's handling of the Expenses Scandals is ridiculous and an affront to the British people's right to a fair democracy.

MPs have been caught with their snouts in the trough so far that they seem to be drowning in swill. The Speaker has been ineffectual in dealing with reforming the system and moving to a culture of transparency in MPs public affairs and the Prime Minister seems, to me, to be the worst of the bunch.

This is a man who has no democratic accountability - after all, he achieved his post by effective coronation rather than even an election within his Party. And now he claims that this Parliament, stocked as it is with Members who have been found to be unjustifiably extravagent (putting it charitably) with the Public Purse, should be the same Parliament that fixes its own problems.

To me this is like the gamekeeper giving to the poacher the responsibility to fix the fences. The PM is suggesting that the more-or-less corrupt bunch of MPs responsible for the scandal be charged with fixing the broken expenses regime.

Nothing could be more inappropriate. These are the LAST people who should be fixing the system. The PM with no mandate wants a Parliament that's lost its moral legitimacy to pass judgement on itself. Well sorry, but that's simply not good enough.

If we are going to have a Parliament that is to reform itself it has to be formed of MPs who have a legitimacy given and renewed by the British people - a legitimacy that the vast majority of the general public don't agree that the current Parliament has any more.

We need a General Election NOW. We need to be able to throw out the MPs responsible for this scandal and we need the opportunity to replace them with truly honourable members who will make it their first responsibility to inject moral probity and transparency into an institution desperately lacking in it.

For goodness sake, PM, call an Election and call it NOW.