Another visit to Rutland's most famous fictional peer.ThursdayRutland’s ink industry has long been the foundation of its prosperity. I am fortunate enough to own several inkwells myself â€" some supplying blue ink and some black â€" as well as a plant where the two varieties are mixed to form blue-black ink. In new weeks, we have been shipping innumerable barrels of Rutland Extra Black to Westminster and today I discover why.The Commons publishes its members’ expense income and they are simply dripping with the stuff. “Redacting†they call it. If I had covered my work with that quantity of ink, my schoolmasters would have called it something very different and bewildered their view winning me in negative uncertain manner.Ink extraction, incidentally, is not without its dangers and we live in fear of single of the men falling in. We keep to hand a supply of industrial strength blotting paper for such emergencies, as that is the only thing that could save him.Previously on noble Bonkers' DiaryMonday: Sense on MPs' expensesTuesday: David Boyle - a star is bornWednesday: The Corby trouser press
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