Hitting the Wrong Scroungers

Ominous post-budgetary borborygms are breaking out among Conservative expenses claimants, to the effect that the Bullingdon Club may finally have gone a little too far with the cripple-kicking. Taking money from the disabled to donate to the rich is all very well, but not when it starts to look like bad public relations. Andrew Percy, an expenses claimant for Somewhere in the North, is also a member of the Europhobic Better Off Out group, and evidently sees his chance to posture as a friend to the deserving disadvantaged and bring a bit of class to the BOO, which has the misfortune to include the blustering blatherers Christopher Chope and Philip Davies, and the osteocephaloid brothers Philip Hollobone and Peter Just-the-Bone. Meanwhile, a couple of charities with Conservative patrons have summarily relinquished their human-shield status, and a website for the deserving disabled has been taken down by its host, a wheelchair-bound Conservative voter of several decades' standing, now that the penny has finally dropped.