This week the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) reported that family members employed by MPs are paid an average of £5,600 a year more than other MPs staff. Once again, it seems, MPs are finding new ways to siphon off public funds into their own pockets but the IPSA won’t investigate further because it would be ‘too intrusive’.

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition’s National Election Agent, Clive Heemskerk, was interviewed on RT News on May 11th (see below). The issue never made the BBC’s broadcast news though, presumably because embarrassing the establishment six weeks before they ask us to give them a vote of confidence in the EU referendum isn’t part of the BBC’s ‘independent remit’.