A First Class Fail

I did post todays blog but due to a ridiculously unnecessary postal strike it has not arrived. I think its more dramatic and meaningful to leave it there actually... 

Bullying in the Workplace

You may recall the furore over MP's expenses not so long ago, it wasn't a low profile incident to say the least. Well the first official inquiry into the matter was completed and delivered this week - ensuring as fearful a start as possible for our parliamentarians. It was a rather soft ruling, concentrating primarily on fairly arbitrary issues such as how much you should claim for cleaning and gardening and the like (but you have to start somewhere right? and i don't think we will be leaving it here what ever they might think)

Quite a few of the tricksy politicians saw themselves handing back a grand here and a grand there but hey, its not such a huge price to pay to regain public confidence is it? well i guess it must be because now they reckon they are being "victimized".

I don't know if i want to continue... I really thought we were getting somewhere... but no. Apparently having a healthy interest in how your own money is spent and being a bit peeved when you find out its going towards dusting down your local MP's Laura Ashley furniture sweet now constitutes bullying. Bullying? Really? because if i had to describe an example of bullying it might be... Oh How about; forcing someone to give you money weather they like it or not, no matter how little they have (threatening to lock them up if they don't) and then proceeding to piss said monies up the wall on what ever you choose - including on your self if you so wish and also not allowing the people you from whom have been pilfering cash to know where half of it goes. Sound familiar?

Oh yeah is the fucking tax system...

And for your visual delight this week I have drawn a lovely picture of Jacqui Smith making an apology she didn't mean. (If you saw her saying sorry in the house of commons this week and looked into those shifty eyes - you would have known she didn't mean it).

Back to Work

Tomorrow is monday (at the time of writing) kids have been back at school for well over a month, Adolescents back at collage for similarly long and even university students are starting to think about putting a post-it note of their deadlines on the edge of their computer screens so they don't forget! Summer is but a distant memory, christmas a looming nightmare and yet our MPs are not even back from their holiday break... until tomorrow. unbe-fucking-lievable.

Don't worry its not that bad, they have been working a bit (although not for us) this past few weeks. Every year the political parties like to have a get together and mull things over before going back to work - its the PARTY POLITICAL CONFERENCES. Gasp. Applause? Maybe not. So for my first blog back, a brief break down of how they went? well its that or X-factor... the conferences? good choice.

1. Liberal Democrats - it was dull (they all were, so lets take that as standard) it was a mess actually. They all contradicted each other and couldn't seem to decide what was policy and what wasn't - they even got a bit snippy with Vince Cable for making a decision without asking enough people first, which might be a good reason to get snippy but given this is one of the few times in the year people are actually paying attention to the Lib Dems - is it a good idea to get all snippy with probably the only person in the party who has enough talent and intelligence to be an asset to government and in doing so come across as fussy, wet drama queens? short answer? no. Long answer? also no.

2. Labour - it was dull (touching on a previous point) it was forgettable. Or, as I heard it described rather ludicrously at one point "not one of the classic conferences". Amazing. There are classic conferences? my mind is blown. Arching back onto topic, it wasn't good or bad - it was medium (or middling, or whatever the correct adjective is) it doesn't merit any more discussion than that.

3. Conservative - it was... dull, correct! and sort of good but not in a "I now love the conservatives way" more of a "yeah, that was a smooth running conference i guess, or at least as smooth as a conference can be with Boris Johnson crashing about and fucking things up" sort of an affair. Strangely i found myself liking George Osborne, the shadow Chancellor, he seemed to actually explain what he intended to do if in office, which is fairly unprecedented, so two thumbs up to him. unfortunately those two thumbs quickly wilt after hearing Eric Pickles (the Conservative Party Chairman) open his mouth and spew a torrent of benign and tiresome Tori mantras. Best of the three but I wont be voting on the strength of party conferences and if we are honest neither are you so this has been a complete waste of time. 

In other news Barrack Obama won the nobel peace prize. Possibly the first person to win the peace prize for just saying "peace would be nice"... maybe Miss World will win it next year for similar sentiments?