To make a slightly serious point, entertaining, and possibly important enough in its own way as "Troughgate" is, isn't it a wonderful smokescreen for a number of other, much more important issues facing the country and the world?
If we are going to have parliamentary reform, it needs to be about much more than expenses, e.g.
PR
All-elected upper house
Banishment of lobby interests
Reduction in power of the whips (the parties won't like that, which means it must be a good thing)
....and no doubt a few other things.
However, the most important longer term issue is "peak oil", even more important that climate change in many ways, although clearly related. While there is still a certain scope for argument about man's contribution to climate change, there can be little doubt that we are running out of oil and natural gas, that we depend upon these for almost everything in our current way of life, and that the projected alternatives cannot replace all of the ways in which we use them.
e.g. Purely fossil-fuel-free electricity may eventually be able to provide most of our energy needs for transport, manufacturing, heating, cooling and cooking, for example, but what about plastics, fertilisers, lubricants? An electric car will still need tyres and with current technology, each tyre needs about 7 gallon's worth of oil, and a significant amount of plastics is needed for interiors, etc.
Many other resources, significantly water, will be under increasing pressure as time progresses.
In the light of our other problems, MP's moats and other foibles pale into insignificance.
