Would You?

Don't you just love politicians, maybe not as much as your partner, children or your last trip to the oil fields of Azerbaijan. Nevertheless, those upstanding, members of the community, chosen by the General Public to represent us, and our views, which given the current crop of Artful - expense - Dodgers says a lot about us and our choices, a bit like the Saturday evening line up on I.T.V.

The whole country is up in arms about M.P's and their expenses. Well, those Moats are not going to self-clean are they? And if you think I'm going to pay for, and fit, my own light bulbs, to read letters from my constituents, then you're sadly mistaken my good man.

After all I am a member of Parliament, and you, dear tax payer, are here to ensure I never have to break into the paltry salary paid to me for sitting on my self important ass (sorry working my ass off) trying to get bills passed that will enable me to pocket more cash, and finally fall asleep in the House of Lords.

But if you were in the same position at work, and allowed to get away with it would you?

Who wouldn’t claim for a Plasma T.V?

Who wouldn’t 'Flip' there house, get it decorated & furnished, sell it, and keep the profit you'd made?

Who wouldn’t claim £400 a month for food shopping?

I know I would. If my boss or my company was so slack on monitoring expenses I would claim for everything possible. The problem lays not so much with M.P's, although the 'Gimp' who claimed for a remembrance reef should be forced fed a diet of daytime T.V until his head explodes, as with the system.

That’s not to say I agree with the self serving assholes and their lame apologises, of "lapses in judgement" "oversights" or "errors of accounting" it's just, what did we expect from them?

Are we, as a country not used to being disappointed, let down and infuriated by those, we, choose to represent us?

It's been going on for years, Profumo, Milligan, Thorpe, Mandelson, Cash for Questions, Peerages for sale, or those pesky Weapons of Mass Destruction, and so on.The surprise is not that they have been scamming their expenses it is the extent, to which they have taken their privileges, that’s has caused the outcry. Along with the realisation that they have finally run out of Vaseline and its begining to smart.

If you're going to rape and pillage a country replicate the 'Vikings' do it with hate, venom and without remorse, grow a set of balls and screw the arse out of it. Their spokesman wasn’t issuing apologises about "miscalculations or promising to rebuild the torched villages".

Not a chance, the rampaging Vikings were claiming everything insight and damn anyone else, sound familiar. Except the Norse warriors brandished weapons of mass destruction instead of fabricating them.

I'm far from politically active, in fact I'm fairly submissive on that score, not to the extent of Stephen Milligan (I don't like Oranges or choking myself while raising my flagpole) you understand. However, I, like most people I expect, I'm quite content to bumble along, pay my taxes, and let them get on with ruining, sorry, running the country.

As an old chap I used to work with once said

"It’s not right, but, if you're half way through a blow job and discover its being administered by a Transvestite, would you stop?"

Well would you?