Compounding the Offence.

There has been a little political scandal going on in Britain over the last few days. Three former Labour ministers were secretly filmed demanding money for lobbying services. David Cameron, the Tory Party leader, says it’s ‘disgusting.’ Jack Straw, the Labour Party Justice Minister, says that MPs are ‘very angry.’ Oh, please! Give me just a bit of credit. Do they really expect us to believe that the three who got caught were the only ones doing it? If the party leaders held up their hands and said ‘Well yes, that is the sort of thing that happens in politics,’ I would have a little more respect for them. Only a little, but that would be better than the none I have at present. Claims that it is ‘disgusting’ and that ‘MPs are very angry’ are simply doubling the lie, and perpetrating a major insult on the public.

Coincidentally, there have been a number of programmes on British TV recently around the fact that public faith in politicians is at an all time low. So when is the British Revolution going to happen? It doesn’t have to be violent; all it needs is for every person of voting age to go into their polling booths in May and write ‘None of the above’ on their voting slips. If we really think these people are not worth voting for, let’s all be honest and say so. What a glorious day that would be.