Gordon Brown has "lost the plot"

By William Green on Apr 27, 09 09:05 PM

Labour MPs are FURIOUS about Gordon Brown's cack-handed attempts to deal with the growing crisis over MPs' expenses.

The Prime Minister last week announced that he wanted to see the end of the second home allowance - used to help pay for MPs' second homes as it says on the tin.

Now Mr Brown has rowed back from a vote on the issue on Thursday, instead referring it to an independent committee looking at the whole subject of MPs' expenses.

And the whole farago has collapsed into recriminations amongst Labour's own ranks.

One MP said: "Gordon Brown has lost the plot".

They claimed MPs would vote for a "worse" system if the public backed it, but blasted it as less transparent and an even worse system.

Could this be yet another sign of the fag end of a dying Government?

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