The Week in Nonsense

Hello again, time to report on yet another week of nonsense. First up this week is the release, under the freedom of information act, of some of the stuff our elected Members of Parliament see fit not to pay for. Step forward the Sultan of Nonsense, the man responsible for unleashing the current tidal wave of seemingly endless bureaucracy Tony Blair. Although his salary is more than double of what I take home, and his missus is a top barrister who probably takes home at least ten times what my wife does, he saw fit to put his TV licence through his expenses, which means in the end we all got to pay for it. His buddy, possibly the most ridiculous fella ever to grace the political stage, claimed £4,000 from the public purse on grub. The next time I am doing my shopping in Morrisons, I might just hang round the tills and ask everybody going past me to contribute to my food shopping. Wonder how much I will get? Of course this breaches no rules, apparently our MP's are allowed to claim up to £400 a month. The Labour party are not alone either, the highest claim, for property repairs, mortgage interest payments and the such, was ( in the years 2004/05) Michael Howard, just over twenty grand, closely followed by John Prescott. The rest of the greedy MoFo's weren't that far behind, ranging from Gordon Brown's £14,000+, to some guy called Jonathan Sayeed, who racked up £18,618 during the same period. Even after the release of this information, Ann Cryer, MP for Keighley, tried to claim it was all some kind of media witch hunt, and politicians were "all being tarred with the same brush". If the boot fits sweetheart...

Next up is the new immigration laws, in particular the "citizenship test" that was introduced in 2005, that means applicants from outside the EU have to show an understanding of British culture and an ability to speak and understand a reasonable amount of English. But the usually inept BBC has uncovered a scam, where applicants can stump up a fee and get someone else to sit it for them. They can get around £700 a pop apparently. Yet another ill conceived piece of legislation. Then there is the Scottish inmate suing the Government for £50,000 cause he had to dump in a bucket. Not only that, but he has been granted leagl aid. He seems to believe it infringes on his human rights, readily forgetting about the rights of the people he saw fit to burgle. Step forward, Rose Gibb, the former chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS, were 90 people died of contacted super bugs, and it was a contributory factor in the demise of a further 124. Read the findings of the report from October last year here. It appears she doesn't think a £75,000 pay off is ample, and is now going to the courts to secure a healthier payout for her ineptitude. Finally this week, the Olympic torch. Who really gives a fuck. It was a Nazi invention, and has about as much to do with ancient Greece as a Rubiks cube.

The weeks biggest waste of money this week, is the £3,000,000 plus wasted on the Princess Di inquiry. All that money spent spent to come to the conclusions, that not wearing a seat belt in a speeding car driven by someone popped up, can cause death. I could have told them that for a fiver.