Elegant analysis by leg-iron:
…the public no longer differentiate between the parties in Westmonster. They don’t hate ‘Labour’, they hate ‘politicians’. That’s their training kicking in – they were trained to hate ’smokers’ not ’smoking’, to hate ‘drinkers’ not ‘drunks’, and so on. So they don’t hate on party lines. They hate on group lines. The [...]
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Unforeseen consequences
Posted in corruption, tagged political class on 29 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Beachy Head
Posted in corruption, tagged expenses, suicide on 22 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Old Holborn provides a text block which appears to be a quote from the unusual MP Nadine Dorries:
The atmosphere in Westminster is unbearable… Everyone fears a suicide.
These words were read out by the BBC this morning with every appearance of being fact.
Leaving aside the BBC (just for once), one cannot help but wonder about the [...]
Compare and contrast
Posted in corruption, tagged expenses on 22 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cool (or possibly neat) computer action from Ill and Ancient, who wields the awesome power of the electrical difference-engine and undertakes (if I have construed it correctly), by means of the customary arcana, to compare and contrast the expenses self-published by MPs with those leaked to the Daily Telegraph.
I’ve got my big spreadsheet of MPs, [...]
Sticks and stones
Posted in corruption, tagged expenses on 12 May, 2009 | 16 Comments »
I note from the Daily Terror-of-the-oppressors-ograph that the most modest expenses claimant among the Tory robber-barons appears to be one David Heathcote-Amory, whom I believe to be the feudal lord of somewhere impossibly remote and bucolic which duly elects him (as the Squire) every time.
Mr. Heathcote-Amory appears to shun and eschew the tax-funded helipads, swimming [...]
Nothing is sacred
Posted in corruption, tagged Blair on 10 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Daily Telegraph reports that no less a personage than multimillionaire property tycoon and co-inventor of ‘champagne socialism’ Tony Blair may be inconvenienced by the evidence about the money.
I am very glad to hear it. A more deserving case would be hard to imagine.
Par for the course
Posted in corruption, tagged MP expenses on 16 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Much reference to things like this, from the Times, about how the Heathrow runway affair has been used in an attempt to cover up the fact that MPs’ expenses are henceforth to be an official secret.
What I can’t understand is: why is everyone acting so surprised?
