This ’swine’ fever pandemic must be brought under control.
The rashers of piggery served up every morning are reducing the image of Great Britain to that of a banana republic.
We already know that we have a toxic Prime Minister who is incapable of accepting that he is ever wrong.
We have a Speaker of the House who is more concerned with his own reputation than the governance of the country.
It is time for the Queen to step in.
It is said that this would provoke a constitutional crisis. That she can only act on the advice of her Senior Ministers.
Could any constitutional crisis be greater than the one we are enduring at present?
In the midst of the worst recession this country has known, we have ministers running around with bunches of roses for the electorate like errant husbands.
When calm heads should be ploughing through the accounts of the great nationalised services, looking to see where savings could be made without disrupting services, attending to the needs of the vulnerable, we have ministers locked in negotiations as to how much they should put back into the communal trough to minimise the public relations backlash.
We are not being governed, we are not being served by these public servants.
If we are to have a crisis, lets have a proper one. Let the Queen recall parliament, kick them all out, every last one of them; let the senior civil servants report directly to our head of state. Let the police investigate as they will.
We are tinkering with the minor details of a bad marriage, listening to the endless excuses of a philandering abusive husband, accepting the flowers and chocolates and earnest entreaties that it will not happen again.
It is time for the divorce lawyers.
HM The Queen, divorce lawyer to the electorate. An urgent appointment please!
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May 14, 2009 at 5:07 pm -
An inspired suggestion, Ms Raccoon. If only, if only …
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May 14, 2009 at 5:11 pm -
Ditto Gloria.
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May 14, 2009 at 5:28 pm -
We could stage a G20-type protest at Westminster, only call it the MP45.
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May 14, 2009 at 5:32 pm -
What is even worse, Anna, is that people who wish to be addressed as Honourable and Rt. Honourable have allowed such a situation to develop whereby HM is put in such a position, were it possible for her to act.
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May 14, 2009 at 5:32 pm -
Entirely agree Anna.
Not one of them is ‘fit for purpose’.
But the Queen ain’t for moving and Brown is deep in his bunker.
Maybe the people should take over whilst no one is watching………
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May 14, 2009 at 5:43 pm -
Gloria and Blink – This brings us nicely back to John Wilkes. My hero!
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May 14, 2009 at 6:45 pm -
There is no way Elizabeth the Last is going to intervene on behalf of the great unwashed
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May 14, 2009 at 6:52 pm -
Guthrum, maybe not but we, the great unwashed, could intervene on behalf of ourselves. All we need is lots of support and some pointy sticks.
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May 14, 2009 at 6:55 pm -
Ah, if only. She could probably guarantee the monarchy for another hundred years if she did.
Incidentally, I notice there were only 12 MPs in the House of Commons for the Swine Flu debate. TWELVE? Isn’t this important or are they all clossetted with their accountants?
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May 14, 2009 at 7:13 pm -
Those 12 MPs debating Swine Flu had already had their claims for pointy-stick-proof vests authorised; the rest were choosing theirs from the John Lewis list and discussing with their accountanty-ants whether it would be within the rules to claim for moat fortifications at the same time.
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May 14, 2009 at 7:17 pm -
Off topic, but a friend of mine once suggested there should be a magazine similar to ‘Men Only’ but for women – she suggested it should be called ‘If Only..’
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May 14, 2009 at 7:31 pm -
Off Gloria’s topic. A friend at work today told me her OAP mother had a letter from the Pension service yesterday. It said she had accidentally been overpaid and that they were going to reclaim £1.20 per week from her pension ’till it was paid back. Beggars belief.
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May 14, 2009 at 8:04 pm -
My belief would indeed be beggared if I were in the least bit surprised. This whole country is riddled with systems that give with one hand and take back with the other and sometimes take back twice over. Take Probate for example…
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May 14, 2009 at 8:43 pm -
How about expenses for mere mortals. On the very rare occasions I have claimed mileage I have been paid (a paltry rate) and then taxed on it. What’s that all about. And if I want to save my organisation money by car sharing I have to pay the extra insurance because I’m using the car for work.
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May 14, 2009 at 11:11 pm -
What a totally absurd and ridiculous article.
If you can put aside your deranged, bandwaggoning sentiment towards politicians (who obviously require no defending, but still, it’s getting silly now) for five seconds, you’d hopefully realise your flawed logic.
The Queen is paid for, as are her lecherous relatives, out of the public purse. You’re arguing for the replacement of one set of tax-grabbing arrogant bastards with the monarchy – arguably another grouping of tax-pilfering arrogant bastards.
Where’s the democracy and accountability in that? How does any of this make sense at all?
Do you think about your pieces before you write them, or do you look at your chums’ blogs and take cues from there?
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May 15, 2009 at 12:37 am -
Do you have a pickle up your arse, or something JD ?
May be absurd is what we need, to deal with all that is going on
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May 15, 2009 at 8:47 am -
John Demetriou May 14, 2009 at 11:11 pm
What a totally absurd and ridiculous article.
Is this the ‘bloke’ who was complaining he’d been left of the list earlier in the week?
What a totally absurd and ridiculous posting then – there’s no doubt why he’s been left off the list – he’s full of shit! -
May 15, 2009 at 9:01 am -
“What a totally absurd and ridiculous article.”
Coming from a Daily Mail reader that is quite a compliment! Where do you think people get their information? Is every thought original? I think not, people get ideas from all over the place including blogs. Although I agree a monarchy isn’t the best option what else have we got?
MPs are a joke at our expense, they claim they are representing us but the main bills they are passing these days go straight to their back pocket.
This article raises a good point, while MPs scramble out of the public eye like cockroaches fleeing the light what they should be doing is trying to resolve this crisis. We are in the shit for want of a better word up to our bloody neck in it and nobody is doing a damn thing about it, worse, they are pretending like everything is okay. The BoE says the economy has no chance of growth till the END of next year while the government still have their fingers crossed for the end of this year. We would be better off with a doddery old bird who likes to wear a tiara and her xenophobic tosser of a husband.
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May 15, 2009 at 11:15 am -
“We would be better off with a doddery old bird who likes to wear a tiara and her xenophobic tosser of a husband.”
I must say thats a fabulous little statement …
Oh I need cheering up…
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May 15, 2009 at 1:28 pm -
At least if ‘the doddery old bird’ recalled Parliament we would get the chance to replace the shabby lot we’re otherwise stuck with for at least another year. I don’t want ER indoors and her team replacing Parliament, I want a new Parliament.
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May 15, 2009 at 2:00 pm -
Perhaps Coco could call on her pet soldiers to help out.
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May 15, 2009 at 2:55 pm -
I’m sure that idea, or one similar, wouldn’t be entirely alien to her.
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May 15, 2009 at 5:06 pm -
whatever the rights and wrongs of the monarchy at least the old girl can be relied upon to turn up sober, on time and knowing her lines.
also i have no memory of her ever saying ‘it’s all within the rules’
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May 16, 2009 at 12:21 am -
Oh Janes and Gloria! …………… I would love to send in my little pet soldiers. And if I could ……….. I would not charge the nation a penny for the bullets! Nor would I charge the natives to watch all the MPs and royal bodies being fed to the pigs afterwards ………….. Mmmmm …………. dreamy.
Not having been up to steam this past week ………. I keep missing bits of news here and there ………….. but I am staggered by the fact that there have not been arrests and charges made regarding the claiming of dog food and swimming pool maintenance though. Christ! That could hardly have been a bloody mistake could it?
And as for Vera Baird …………… Well ………….. I am glad that she has never come back on here. She is just the kind of person that my parents would have hated me to associate with. We are after all judged by the company we keep!
The Queen Elizabeth has a lot to answer for in my judgement …………. and at the risk of being sent to the Tower and being fed on swan-pie and dolphin soup ………… (or whatever it is the royals eat these days) …………. I am not going to say anything else other than that she is a chief lizard of the Westminster Massive.
I have written a poem about the Westminster Massive and may put it on here when I get a mo.
I have written a poem about the Westminster Massive and may put it on here when I get a mo.
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