Today our MP’s return once more to Westminster to begin the job of preparing this country for a General Election.

Whilst it is true that an election can be called at any time the Government is likely to wait until the last possible moment and hence in all reality we probably have another 6 months+ of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

That is not to say we necessarily have another 6 months of Gordon Brown as the Prime Minister. During the last weekend of the summer recess the media has been awash with stories of how the PM recently had a regular health check and eye test with Downing St disclosing the there were two small retinal tears in the good eye of Gordon Brown.

There are some in the blogosphere who believe this is a softening up tactic to allow Gordon Brown to stand down as leader at the last minute and permit a caretaker manager to takeover for a couple of months, the belief amongst those that harbour this thought is that the new ‘caretaker’ would enjoy a period of grace and poll bounce before announcing the date for the election. This is just speculation at the moment but needs to be discussed as it is currently being touted heavily.

In what is likely to be a day of Admin amongst MP’s the spotlight will be shining heavily on the outcome of the review by Sir Thomas Legg into the continuing expenses scandal.

An area of interest of particular note will be the publishing today of the results of a six-month investigation into the expense claims of the former home secretary Jacqui Smith by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, John Lyon.

We shall be monitoring events.