But when you've trodden on someone's foot, you apologise. You don't have a go at them for having their foot in the aisle.

I think the jealousy comment is a really clumsy way of making the argument that the system is wrong. Who wouldn't want to be covered by an expenses system that allowed this kind of generosity towards applicants?

Except that there's two difficulties - reasonably principled people would have worries about how the system was paid for and might not be so happy if they knew it was being paid for by general taxation since a lot of taxes come from people who are less well off, and OK if it's the system that's wrong let's not blame the claimants, let's blame the people who created the system. Oh, wait a minute ...

And Nadine Dorries is a twit. I just wanted to make that point.