Goodbye Sir John Bourn....

....the free-spending Comptroller and Auditor General at the National Audit Office has announced that he is to stand down in January, to spend more time with his wife. At home, instead of taking her jetting around the world to attend spurious meetings on 'behalf' of the UK Government.

According to this week's Private Eye, he hasn't found the need to have any 'business lunches', 'business dinners' or other entertainment since the details of his expenses were published.

Funny that.

Less funny is that he has been lunching with and entertained by, and on freebies with, those whom he is supposed to be investigating and controlling.