Welcome to the phenomenal number of new readers I have inherited over the last twenty four hours!

I hope you remain; however, I must issue a warning. I am profoundly dyslexic which means my spelling is bad.  But hey, it would appear that I am in the very best of company.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323056/How-Jane-Austen-failed-spelling-using-regional-accent-poor-punctuation.html

I would also like to state that every word written on my blog is absolutely true. Any sensible person can obviously see that. How could one fabricate a public meeting with 300 atendees? Or a campaign to prevent an incinerator being built? It would be very difficult indeed. However, I do not provide information regarding my personal diary or movements, or where I sleep at night. Or indeed where I am about to be, as opposed to where I have been,  which means that the blog can often be out of synch.

I have been slightly amazed at the response to my being cleared of a fifteen month investigation into my expenses.

I had hoped that the media would focus on the fact that I was completely exonerated. That the enquiry exposed the fact that I had never claimed against the John Lewis list, had not flipped or claimed a mortgage. That I am in the minority of MPs who has not had to pay money back.

I believe that if I had been found guilty. If I had had to pay money back. If the standards commissioner had discovered that I had claimed £14,000 for home improvements to a house not in my constituency or even where I lived, the reaction would have been far more moderate.

The fuss has been created by some of the more unstable people on the internet and on Twitter. As I said this morning - in politics, Twitter is the sewer of the social networking medium, where online bullies talk to each other, over and over again.

These people would like my blog to be diminished, so that any future campaign I may run, say on abortion, would be undermined from the outset.

The fact also remains, that if I had been a Labour MP claiming for home improvements, on a tax payer funder mortgaged house and even a smattering of the abuse which has been hurled my way via Twitter, had gone in the other direction, the screams of sexism and misogyny would be heard for miles around. And it would be true.

On Monday, I am being interviewed by one of the UKs top feature writers for a national newspaper. In that interview I hope I will be able to expand on some of the issues written about today.

I am delighted to have been offered the interview. I respect the intellect and integrity of the interviewer and feel comfortable in the knowledge that the truth will always out and sense and sensibility will always rule the day.