MPs expenses - can we start to draw a line?

Wishful thinking I know! This toxic topic has dominated our news and media for a very long time. Too long, and it has got to the point if this keeps bubbling and festering in the coming months, not only will see permanent damage to our democracy, but we will see the lowest turnout in any general election in our modern history. Yesterday saw the publication of the Kelly Report. Nick Clegg has rightly already said MPs should accept the Kelly report in full.
But a handful of Labour and Tory MPs are determined that the general public should somehow feel sorry for them. Take Tory MP, Nadine Dorries: on the news last night she bleated, whilst filmed getting on a train, that Kelly has 'no idea what MPs really do' Apparently, unlike other people in paid employment, she sometimes has to travel back to her constituency 'late at night' She also extolled the virtues of employing her daughter, because she was the only person she could trust with all her top secret and highly confidential work!
Then we've seen representatives of the 'wives club' (wasn't that a Hollywood film?) Can anyone imagine a headteacher, or any other public servant being able to employ his or her spouse or family member in this way? It doesn't happen in the American Senate or in local government.
It may well be that most work hard, but it simply appears like gross nepotism.
My particular favourite and should receive a gong for the most eccentric and out of touch outburst came from Sir Nicholas Winterton, the Tory MP for Macclesfield, who said that “the way MPs are being treated is quite despicable”.
He added: “Mr Kelly is a senior civil servant on a generous index pension link who is trying to reduce MPs to abject poverty and I don’t know why.”
So there we have it - MPs will be reduced to poverty!
Lets now hope that MPs will collectively wake up and support these measures, which the public broadly welcome, so that the likes of Dorries and the Winterton's, can either stand down if they don't like it, or be voted out by their constituents, many of whom will know what its really like in the real world: some may even live in poverty, so that we can all move on from this sorry, disgraceful and sordid episode in British public life.
There are far more important issues that MPs should be focusing on.