Have you thought that...

... with regards the recent MP's expenses scandal, those members previously under media-scrutiny must be more than a teensy bit grateful to Michael Jackson for hanging up his dancing shoes?

And that while the masses are becoming increasingly reluctant to leave their homes for fear of catching "killer" swine flu, the politicians have their feet up on their tax-payer funded footstools, in their tax-payer funded homes, safe in the knowledge that anything they feel like whacking on expenses at the moment will fade into media obscurity.

All thanks to a popstar and pig flu consuming the front pages. Never has there been a better time to hide a story.