"Another Sunday, another scam revealed about MSPs. The latest revelation that Andrew Wilson the SNP MSP who along with Duncan Hamilton MSP both registered themselves as resident in Duncan Hamilton's parents address in Milngavie so they could both qualify for the edinburgh allowance to buy property in edinburgh is bad enough, now we find out that MSPs have been trading flats to each other at great profit and subsidised by the taxpayers.

The public must rightly think they are all at it at our expense and they would be right, all political parties except the SSP and Solidarity have members profiting from this scam. The Corporate body is clearly unable to reform this scheme as many of its members in the past and at present have also benefitted from it and when it is shown that MSPs like Nicol Stephen have broken the rules they are merely rapped on the knuckles.

We must now suspend this rotten scheme immediately ask the MSPs to repay their profits and set up an independent review to find an alternative to this mess before it discredits the parliament further. I shall be writing to the Presiding Officer and the Standards Committtee about the MSPs who have broken the rules.  However, asking the Corporate body to reform this scam is like putting Dracula in charge of bloodbanks as many of them are passengers on the same gravy train"