Thursday, 4 December 2008
Levelling the playing field
Once again, the Australians are way ahead of us:
Politicians in an Australian state could be breathalysed before voting after reports of bad behaviour by MPs.
In the latest incident, New South Wales MP Andrew Fraser resigned from his frontbench role after shoving a female MP after attending a Christmas party. In September, state police minister Matt Brown resigned after allegedly dancing in his underpants at a drunken party in his parliamentary office.
Several MPs have now backed a proposal to supply breath test kits.
"Honestly, if you are going to have breathalysers for people driving cranes you should have breathalysers for people writing laws," New South Wales Greens MP John Kaye told the Sydney-based Daily Telegraph newspaper. Barry O'Farrell, leader of the coalition opposition, said he would gladly submit to an alcohol test before entering parliament.
And the Speaker Richard Torbay said he would have no problem with the idea as long as tests were voluntary. "I think it is important to establish high standards that the community expects," Mr Torbay told the Telegraph.
I can wholeheartedly endorse this. We've already, thanks to the staggering incompetence of the Speaker and the Serjeant-at-Arms, established that the police can barge into the Mother of Parliaments and ransack MPs' offices without a warrant. So I say, go the whole hog. Let's submit them to the same intrusive nannying they are happy for us to undergo.
Make them pay from their own pockets for ID cards that they can use to "quickly and conveniently establish their identity", fine them £1,000 if their details are incorrect, ban them from claiming the money back from the taxpayer, and then give the police the right to stop them and demand that identification at will.
Fingerprint them on entry to the Palace of Westminster, take DNA swabs from each and every one of them, and refuse to remove their details from the database, in breach of their human rights, when they are turfed out of office.
Demand receipts for every penny of expenditure that they claim back from the taxpayer - and fire and prosecute every single MP that steals public money to put their kids through university or keep their wives in shoes and handbags.
Fire and prosecute any MP who sexually harasses a colleague.
Ban all booze promotions in the Palace of Westminster; make MPs pay the same for their pints as the rest of us rather than enjoying taxpayer-subsidised cheap drink. And then, yes, breathalyse the cunts as they troop through the division lobbies to vote through yet more restrictions on matters which are absolutely none of their bloody business.
If these bastards are so determined to make our daily lives a misery, then the least we can do is to return the fucking favour.
Labels: Abuse, Burning our money, Civil liberties, Hypocrites, Liars
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"If these bastards are so determined to make our daily lives a misery, then the least we can do is to return the fucking favour."
Love it!
Love it!
I heartily support these recommendations, and I commend the Honourable Gentleman's Bill to the House.
*Applauds*
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*Applauds*
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It sounds to me, m'lovely, that you would rather enjoy being in charge of all that. Can I help out, and have a riding crop for all those who don't obey?
Ooh, yes, lie detectors. We put the onus on them to prove they're not crooks, and cut off their allowances if we're not satisfied.
We'd need 646 lie detectors permanently available, are there that many in the country? I doubt it, in which case a Lie Detector Procurement General Purposes Committee will be required, with fact-finding missions to Bondai Beach, Bali, Thailand, Rio and Las Vegas, oh and The Bahamas, Virgin flies there direct and their Upper Class is very comfortable. The first draft report should be available in 2014.
That's as good as rants get.
Can we not also have PMQs on the Parliament Square green so we can throw stuff at them if they talk shite ... as usual.
Can we not also have PMQs on the Parliament Square green so we can throw stuff at them if they talk shite ... as usual.
Sounds like you have been reading the Libertarian Party website.
That's exactly what they say they will do, no exceptions for MP's.
http://lpuk.org/pages/welcome/the-political-class.php
http://lpuk.org/pages/manifesto.php
That's exactly what they say they will do, no exceptions for MP's.
http://lpuk.org/pages/welcome/the-political-class.php
http://lpuk.org/pages/manifesto.php
Reciprocal misery.. I like it.
The Australian situation is due to the fact that the antipodeans are terrible drunks, they can't handle their grog and all think they are ten foot tall and bullet proof after the first pint.
The Australian situation is due to the fact that the antipodeans are terrible drunks, they can't handle their grog and all think they are ten foot tall and bullet proof after the first pint.
Oh and Barnsley Bill is correct. The Breadstealers are terrible lightweights, with all the alcohol tolerance of little girls. If you've ever been out to the Colonies they use something called a "Pot" which is about the same size as an Italian expresso cup. Yet this receptacle is deemed by the Breadstealers to be a sufficient size to purvey Alcoholic beverages in. Naturally to defend their Manhood the Aussies claim to drink lots of these. NB They consider about 3 Pots "lots".
A pot is slightly larger than an egg cup, they poor there tasteless, fizzy, teeth jarringly cold, weak as a nuns piss "beer" into them from jugs!
I swear it is smaller than a half pint glass. I was never sure whether I should cock my pinky when holding one.
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I swear it is smaller than a half pint glass. I was never sure whether I should cock my pinky when holding one.
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