The cynics wife theory

Surely if I want to do good things I can find support in my community? Maybe keep a hospital open or save some green belt land? If I try I can get people to come out to support me?
But If I want to do bad things like say polute the environment by building another runway or destroy some green belt by building a huge supermarket? Maybe buy a few more bombs? Well its going to be hard to get people out on the streets then and as a result hard to do bad things.
I still need influence though and because theres few of them they will have to be powerful decision makers.
The best influence to have is of course political. They make the decisions and send in the bulldozers after the so called enquiry has confirmed its a bad thing I want to do. They can even sign the cheques to help me buy the bombs. So the best way to get influence is to buy it and go to the right dinners and meet the right people. Therefore I become a political donor in order to build, polute or deprive in whatever form I choose. This is relatively easy with a party system of politics because they are a team and stick together from the top down.

Hence the Cynics Wife law of politics says that

"The party system by its nature demands that we have leades who work against our wishes"

DO NOT VOTE!

Monday 23 March 2009

Put Mcnulty on the dole

Un employment minister Tony Mc Nulty joins the growing list of Westminster's over paid and under-rated and completely un-qualified. In fact he has had a glittering political career so far and it seems to rub off on those around him. He married head teacher Gillian Travers who by coincidence was elevated to Ofsted's chief inspector of schools – in 2002. The same year Tony hit the big time with John Prescott's office.
Now by his own admission he claims thousands of pounds of your money to pay for a house he does a few days work in and stays over a few times a month. At that rate there are cheaper alternatives such as a suite in a hotel at less than a grand a night, but then you don't get to keep it when you have been kicked out of your job. He stopped claiming this expense in January as the whisper around the corridors of power got louder. This bloody freedom of information act is a right nuisance. Summer is coming and the list will get longer and the excuses more ridiculous. But have no fear the governments official PR agents the BBC are here to divert attention to the real issue. You see its just that the rules are not to clear and need clarification and anyway he stopped claiming it. Like he kinda has stopped stealing your money now so that makes it ok. Anyway what about those nasty bankers who join companies and get promised massive pensions and are still promised them when your incompetent government buys the business. Lock stock and barrel deal or no deal.
In the meantime the real issue here is we just dont pay our politicians enough. Thats why they steal your money