Don't Blame Me (I didn't vote for them)

Sometimes I wonder why people stand up for our government. Look at John Prescott and Charles Clarke for example and all I see is a pair of thugs. You can't tell me that someone who punches the voters is anything else, and he should have been out for that long ago. He's contributed nothing to our country since save for a few bits of filthy hypocrisy when he avoided his council tax bills and turned up to an environmental meeting in one of his Jaguars.

And let's be honest, you've got to ask how?
I don't understand why he got away with it either, given the scale of the scandal which would have emerged were it anyone else.

As for Charles Clarke, well. Incompetent buffoon. Of course he should go. He certainly doesn't deserve to be paid a fortune for what he does.

I'm fed up with the lies, the hypocrisy, the fall in standards and morals and the spin. Are the people that voted them in, and worse, continue to support them, blind? Or just in receipt of one of the many gimmicky handouts available to some(cough) election bribes (cough)?

I see that for every party there are questions being asked about spending on hair, make up and clothes for the election campaign. You have got to ask whether it is really necessary.

And - for you smug Lib Dems in particular - just how is it an example of a socialist lifestyle to spend thousands on new suits?

Comments

Anonymous said…
Bit of a mess isn't it really.

I'm a socialist that likes nice things, but I'm also an atheist that celebrates Christmas, it's just the way I was raised.
Wed Apr 26, 11:13:00 PM GMT
Anonymous said…
Well, I don't think I've ever seen such a vicious post in this part of the blogosphere JP! Clearly this is an issue very close to your heart, and I agree totally with your comments, enough is enough.
Thu Apr 27, 11:02:00 AM GMT
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