14 years of mismanagement and misgovernment and now the Labour Party is finding morals and ethics.
Where were these saints when their ranks were full of the pocket filling dross who should be employed within the walls of HMP? Some, like Labour MPs in northern cities, showed sufficient contrition to become mouthpieces on radio programmes alongside Stephen Nolan.
Let us remind the Red Squirrel that we are not all taken in by her conversion to honesty. The same has to be said now of Saint Ed Multibrands politics!
Expenses and phone-hacking prompt new political grouping
From Westminster to Wapping to the City: The 'feral elite' are out of control.
A new political grouping demanding public interest juries has been created in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal.
The group, which includes author Phillip Pullman and former BBC director general Greg Dyke, put out a statement linking the banking crisis, the MPs expenses scandal and the phone-hacking row as the work of a "feral elite" running Britain.
It is demanding that a 1,000-strong group of randomly selected members of the public establish a public interest test on the structure of political, media and financial leadership.
Writing in the Guardian, the group says: "Something is unravelling before our eyes. From bankers to media barons, private interests have bankrupted and corrupted the public realm. Power, for so long hidden in the pockets of a cosy elite, has been exposed. Those who wield it have been found wanting - in scruples, in morals and in decency.
The declaration was also signed by several left-wing commentators, Caroline Lucas, parliament's only Green MP, some Liberal Democrats and an assortment of other academics and trade unionists.
Saint Jim the Devine is out of jail already.
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Politics is the most corrupt business in this world, and there was a time when British politics avoided being part of it. Then the Expenses Scandal, Cash for Honours,A lying Prime Minister ended that completely. 650 MP's do not represent the electorate, they represent a party ideology that is alien to the majority of the voters. Those MP's who want to climb the greasy pole to Ministerial rank, will sell their grandmother to do so (excuse the pun)! The electorate are just an inconvenience at election time that they would rather do without.
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