And so it comes to this.
I've slept in my office a few times...when I was a student...and I'd just moved out of one house and not yet moved into another. I didn't feel particularly dignified. But then I wasn't an MP, and hence so beneath contempt that no-one felt I had any dignity left to lose, and thought it was worth paying vastly more for a surveillance system to watch over me than any plausible estimate of the amount I might "over-claim" if given the trust, license, discretion and benefit of the doubt that my station and role implied.