Passing thought

With hopefully at least some of our elected representatives facing criminal charges for fraud, tax evasion or something, the recent moves to give prisoners the vote starts making so much more sense. Whilst the blame for such a move has been put firmly on the EU, perhaps it was just a rare bit of forward thinking from the embezzling low life that rule over us. Would anyone be surprised if it turns out that the EU’s human rights group decides that not only is it illegal to withhold the vote from convicts but that it’s just as illegal to prevent … Continue reading

Changing the rules

So finally we have the usual pathetic shadows of apologies that we’ve come to expect from Gordon and Dave. Neither seems particularly sorry about what their MPs have been doing over the years so much as that they’ve been caught. Of course still they carry on with the “within the rules” nonsense, the rules it would seem state: “Claims must only be made for expenditure that it was necessary for a Member to incur to ensure that he or she could properly perform his or her parliamentary duties” As Anna Raccoon observes in the case of Phil Woolas shoes, comics … Continue reading