exciting new redefinition of hypocrisy

[Blackpuddin]

Speaker of the House John Bercow is apparently 'horrified' to learn that the taxpayer is paying £30,000 a year to rent 12 fig trees in a building used by MPs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17148993

He said that "the public would think they were being fleeced" and that MPs were "living in another universe".

This must surely be a different John Bercow to the one who spent £37,000 of public money on a painting of himself for his own home in the Palace of Westminster, topping off a £20,659 refit which included the public purchase of a large television and a DVD player, and who has been given his own coat of arms with a ladder representing his rise as the son of a taxi driver, balls for his love of tennis, and a rainbow symbol of equality and pink triangles for his support of gay rights.

[Blackpuddin]

OK, maybe it's just me then, but shouldn't public figures (who you would think might know better) try a bit harder to avoid hypocrisy? Or do they simply think we've all got goldfish memories? Either way it's a complete liberty.