The Keens should be out

There is a delicious irony in the expenses problems of the Keen's, Mr & Mrs Expenses.

The empty homes legislation under which they have been approached was brought in by the unlamented John Prescott. Doubtless they voted for it. (The law doesn't apply to jags, or to dresses which haven't been worn for a while, but let that pass.)

Well done the Lib Dem PPC who raised this with Hounslow council - which, like much of local government, is Tory. This is what local opposition should be doing to sitting MPs - ruthlessly laying bare any wrongdoing. And what the Keens are doing is certainly wrong morally. Probably politically too.

Let's hope the Keen's are finished as MPs.