Soon to be retired Tory Maverick Sir Nicholas Winterton bleats to Stephen Nolan on 5Live about his outrage at no longer being able to claim expenses against 1st Class Rail travel. No one is forcing Winterton to travel standard class. He can pay the full price of a first class ticket and claim expenses for the standard fare. His remarks betray an out of touch Tory Dinosaur whose time is up

Coolcat's take on the latest goings on at Westminster

Coolcat explains why, after voting Labour all his adult life, he decides to join the Lib Dems

The Guardian's Zoe Williams on Labour's proposal to reward neighbours who snitch on alleged benefit cheats, with a share of the recovered funds.

This highlights the hypocrasy of the Cameroons on the issue of Change

Andrew Reeves highlighting how the Tories are trying to implement a command and control structure regarding social media for their parliamentary candidates. Doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose?

"... in the build-up to the election Clegg's pro-European, anti-Westminster, redistributive liberalism gives him an authentic and distinctive voice. At least he knows his voice will be heard when not so long ago it seemed as if he'd be drowned out by the clamour of the two bigger parties. We will have to wait and see whether he will take it, but he has a chance."