My honourable friend

Day by day it seems we read and hear more about the life and work style or the mass of walking excreta that is our government. We started off with them wanting to award themselves pay rises well above any known criteria of inflation. This whilst pushing the agenda of minimal rises for all others. Then came Rent A Relative stories. The leader who made much of his condemnation then had to admit he was personally employing a relative by marriage. Not paid from his allowances said he but by Tory central office. What an amazing coincidence that the best woman for the job turned out as his sister-in-law. A party that makes much of giving 'right images' and politically correct action is unable to see just how the rest of us turned away from the trough would see such a happenstance.
Then it came out that it was considered infra-dig for them to support expense claims with any form of receipt or other documentation. Add on that many of them claimed up to within a pound or two or the maximum allowed amount. Those of us who had faced the modern day Spanish Inquisition of internal audit departments felt that almost superhuman integrity was required to claim - let us say correctly -in the absence of proof of expenditure. What more sewage would float to the top?
Well, how about bugging of MPs. Leave aside just for now whether or not it did or did not occur. What was interesting was the use of a long ago ruling called The Wilson Doctrine. Yes - named after yer dear 'Arold. Remember his swift and relatively poorly explained decision to get out of the heat of the kitchen. Bugs in those days worked much hotter when switched on. The slugs claimed this gave them an immunity. At a time when the man who controls legal interception disclosed he was handling about 1,000 new requests each week. So, that is a 1,000 this week, add 1,000 the week before and so on back a few months. Cut 25% for tappings withdrawn. We get - say - 20,000 of us under close observation. And MPs isolated from such things. Ah yes say the slimeys, we have more integrity and can be better trusted than you lot. This in the face of the expenses and family employment revelations. This really demonstrates just how far up their own ar*es they are.
We saw the sentencing yesterday of those who assisted the 21 July bombers. All nice clean looking boys if you like that sort iof thing. Who - meeting them face on in the street - would imagine they held any sort of secret. Just like any MP or any one of us. People do hold important positions do work against the interests of their employers. Blunt, Kilby, Blake and that lot come to mind. The guy who blew the whistle was a activist before he was selected. Does the leopard change it's spots overnight? How are we to know? I'll hint at how to know - see what he gets up to. If bugging someone I regard as an ordinary citizen leads to a terrorist - even one sleeping until he is activated - I'm perfectly happy about this intrusion into what some think of as his private life. He is a pretty poor solicitor if he does not anticipate what resources will be deployed. My only problem would be trying to detect what was MP telling porkies and what was accurate.
Of course, we now have the policeman who claims he was Mr Bugger and acted under duress. Not a great deal of duress one would have thought. He had rank that comes from service and could have resigned. Or gone sick. He chooses to come forward now there is press interest. Journalists often write requests for interviews on 20 quid notes and post these through letter boxes.
His revelation suggests more to come. The talk is of a bugged table. Table singular. So just how did Mr Bugger ensure that his target sat at just the very talking table in a room full of tables?
So, other than the flimsy claim for Not Me Chum exemption from the rest of the human race, what has the police operation to do with the rest of my opus on MP sleaze? Well - two high mucky mucks agree they knew of the bugging last year. Where and who was being targeted. The claim is that they did not take Ministers into their confidence. So we have the situation where it is feasible that politicians are enjoying ill gotten gains and not even bothering to be on top of their jobs but leave it all to Sir Humphrey. They are in denial of just how much they are now despised. Good are classified along with bad. Straw institutes a prompt inquiry into the bugging whilst the other matters of malfeasance bounce about like balls in a pachinko board.
We are not just fighting to get the Thames Barrier raised against the incoming flood of corruption and fraud. The financial system in London makes vast profits and only occasionally are we granted an insight as to what goes on where the Soc General surfaced. They are doubtless setting up bets on Northern Rock which will create vast 'profits' to individuals and their masters. When the politics are a rerun of the Rakes Progress and the financial markets are run by latter day Fagins, what hope have we of a land fit for heroes?If you have read this far, here is another little nugget. This might also be of interest in clarifying that 1,000 bugging requests a day. There must be more buggers than gays?