Brown Gives MPs £5,000

Brown wants give an one-off payment of up to £5,000, for MPs to maintain their second homes this summer. Of course this has nothing to do with him facing a commons defeat on his "reform" of MPs expenses. It would be ironic indeed with the government stating that:

reform of the expenses system has to begin immediately in an attempt to restore public confidence in MPs.

Let's just hope he spares us a YouTube video explaining his reasons for this.