In Lighter News: Politicians May Take Own Lives
The never-ending stream of depressing news continues this morning with the revelation that politicians in the UK are being harassed to within an inch of their lives by the media and the general public. The corridors of power are empty; politicians are barricading themselves in underground bunkers until the witch-hunt ceases and they can get on with their lives without fear of being burnt at the stake.
The campaign to expose MPs’ Commons expense claims has become so personal that it has started to resemble a McCarthy-style witchhunt, a Tory backbencher said today.
Nadine Dorries, the member for Mid-Bedfordshire, also warned that the relentless drip-drip of leaked claims was creating such an atmosphere of terror that there was a real risk of an MP committing suicide.
Is this really the kind of society we live in? An upstanding servant of the people is made to fear for his or her life, all because of a small bit of theft, theft that absolutely everyone is committing anyway? These men and women of honour should be given knighthoods, such was their bravery and determination. Read the rest of this entry »