It seems that Alan Duncan MP (a shady character if there ever was one) has been duped twice by the same person. After he had to pay back several thousand pounds worth of expenses he'd spent on his garden, activist Heydon Prowse from the online magazine Don't Panic dug a pound sign into his garden. The stunt left Duncan red-faced and let everyone else have a titter at the deeply unpleasant MP.

Now it has been revealed that he is not just unpleasant, but an idiot. Whilst having a drink in the commons bar with the same person he said the following things...

MPs had been "Treated like shit"

Granted, but you've been acting like a shit for years, I'd say you deserve it.

"You have to live on rations"

Poor you, only £64,000 a year plus a lot of benefits. Talk to someone who lived through the war and you'll find out what living on rations is like.

Asked how much he spent on his garden "About £2,000 a year and this was £1,000 a year on expenses" an amount he earlier dismissed as a "tiny fraction"

And in what way is spending £1,000 on your garden something that is essential for your work as an MP?

I love the fact that only after several thousand pounds were spent on the garden, the fees office decided that the claim could be seen as exorbitant.

The final irony is that Duncan is the overseer of expenses for the Tory party. Despite his apologising and claiming the comments were made in "jest" don't think that this scandal will stop him doing what he wants.