ploop politics

I am so truly incredulous that the body set up to stop MP’s stealing money via expenses is going to cost six times more than the money the MPs were stealing in the first place, that I can’t even put pen to paper.

I’ve had to transfer my mind elsewhere – into the world of music – to stop me thinking of it. £6.5 million per year, every single year, to stop MP’s wetting their beaks. See I can’t do it …

TechTags Plugin [ Music | rap music | swearing | sexism | racism | MP | MPs | government | expenses | Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority ]

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So, the UK Government has lost the Binyam Mohamed torture appeal. Maybe I’m seeing things a little too simplistically here – but why should how he was tortured be kept quiet for ’security reasons’. What he said – yep, I can see why that should be sat on. But how we made him say it? Come on …

TechTags Plugin [ Binyam Mohamed | chidren | David Miliband | frogs | Guantánamo Bay | MI5 | muppets | National security | Torture | UK Government | United States ]

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In the last week I’ve heard politicians utter the following pearls:

Politicians and the public need a new commitment to commitment, we need to put our trust in hope, we need to believe in trust and trust needs to be re-established so we all have hope … utter bollocks.

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