Tuesday 26 May 2009

Still Taking Our Money

How babyish to try and start a discussion on proportional representation. Anyone who wants to know about PR can put on their anorak and spend an hour with the Wikipedia entry. After that, there is nothing more to be said.

Meanwhile the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Home Secretary, the Business Secretary, the Minister for the Olympics, the Foreign Secretary, the Education Secretary for England (whatever he's calling himself these days), his wife, indeed the whole world that is the Brown Executive is variously avoiding various taxes, profiting from 'second' homes, and charging us for specialist advice on how best to do it (or perhaps that should be have it) all, signing multiple mortgage applications with eyes tight shut, and persisting in office, fruiting bodies and spores on greyish tendrils, spreading through our democratic structures, and smelling.

Presumably the Head of State isn't shutting this down because she hasn't got the power to do so after all. Imagine trying to end the Parliament and being told 'Nonsense!' After all, that's what we have been told when we tell them to go. 'Go away and talk among yourselves about proportional representation'.

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