WE have the growing feeling that senior politicians, such as Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg, are out to get the Press on the back of the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

Every fresh utterance from these two, along with other MPs, smacks of score settling. Mr Clegg suggested on Sunday morning that the Press Complaints Commission is made up of editors only. It is not.

The majority are independents including a judge.

Mr Miliband, in his speech yester- day, spoke of problems in 'the Press'

rather than simply the proven wrongdoing of News International.

Both men are calling for stricter regulation of the Press. Both are pulling the wool over the eyes of a public who tend to believe what they are told.

This newspaper, along with all others, is already regulated by the law of the land. If we break the law, we get prosecuted.

The PCC provides an additional tier of regulation to deal with those matters that fall outside the law, but raise issues of taste, ethics and morality.

But given the revelations we are getting every day it strikes us that politicians themselves should be regulated.

For instance should a prime minister be allowed to attend a Christmas party at the home of News International's chief executive, as David Cameron did?

There are scores of examples where MPs have accepted hospitality from those who are now considered dubious or who might seek to influence them.

But do we call all MPs crooks? No, just some of them.

Are all police officers crooked? No, just some of them.

Likewise, are all journalists crooked? No, just some of them.