Now, why did they do that?

A week or so ago The Times reported that the House of Commons had shredded more than 1 million documents which contained details of expense claims by MPs.

Westminster claimed that only documents before April 2004 were destroyed - this despite official guidelines requiring documents to be kept for six years.

Could it be that with the ferreting of information about Caroline Spelman going back 11 years someone somewhere felt a little liable to be exposed.? What secrets will be more difficult to find out now?

Or am I being a little cynical? Is it possible that the timing is a coincidence, coming accidentally just after the speaker's attempts to prevent disclosure and several cases where MPs have had their noses in the trough? Was the attack on Caroline Spelman a sign for some high-ups in the Government that they had too much to lose....

I leave you to make up your own mind, but I know what I think.....