expense

i know i have said it ad nauseam, but every time, and I really do mean every every time I here journalists on the any media organization knocking Mp's expenses I wonder about the expenses account of those who run these organisation.I mean here that I can easily understand why mp's need expense accounts. the entire point of parliament was to have people from the otherside of the railing to not just enter into government but also but to be at a disadvantage when compared to Eton toff's when they do so. I accept ht the result is that certain people will abuse the system. so be it, as many a Toff's also abuse their own wealth - that is the nature of wealth: One cannot therefore level the playing field without allowing abuse to happen.
i understand i say the expense accounts of Mp's. What I do not understand (and wish to know more about) is why the expense account of the already rich and priveleged should be augmented by expense accounts?

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Quesions

Why have articles that ask questions?
Why have articles that self right be asking leading questions?
Why mannufacture the question, and therefore the scandal?
Why do proper journalism whe you can ask leading questions?
Who want anything other than opinion peicies inspired by leading questions?
Why ,muk abut being the reporter when you can get most of the fame and all the glory asking daffy questions?


- why indeed!

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fantasy merchant

Poor old Hilary - she forgot in he desire to be in the fist lady who became president movie, that the movie makers of current political life are firmly the news agencies. they make a fantasy (Obama is a fantasy candidate, and the only real question is about whether one supports him or not is whether that fantasy is allowed to remain past november). but they also make the expose of all fanatises (save their own). The game of a politician is therefore to always ensure that one is in a sequence of 'films' (that is of fanatisies) that sup;port ones over all career (one needs not to be type casts, and need the right smatter of likeable villians as well as heros, one also needs cameos) Poor of hilary main probe is that she does so want to direct her own movie, an 'arrogance' which will in all likelihood cost here the candiacy..



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Stroppy

Presumable Obama was so mad about the passport ( for Godsake what does one expect, by the way I am sure doctors laugh at my medical records I certainly hope so, and it is surely one of the oerks of a boring job is that one gets to see the records of 'famous people, and if we do not like this `i suggest we pay more but that is another matter?). is because it puts him back in the role of victim, rather friend of Osama's friend, the preacher.
unless of course there was something really radicle in the records - like say Obama was less African Amercian, and more Hawain than he claims)


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It is the car that one worries about

So Cameron breaks the traffic laws.
I bet the man also wants to fiddle his tax expenses, and has driven when not sure exactly what the limit is and speed (from time to time ) and.... like pretty well everyone else. Only difference is of course that we have not set ourselves up as a role model, and allowed people in to witness our (cod and contrived) moral purity as family man ( god, the arrogance of thinking the voters want to get to know about a balding toff , gets one down). nor do we ll have a car following us - letus hope that also drove o the pavement to avoid the one way street.
But hey- I wonder how the journalists were following him - it must of been quite a cavalcade! a fact which is certainly more interesting that is uniquely boringif pompos fool.


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It would be easier with an Axe

Okay, so we have have added t the role of china;s policemen the roles of stern critique, worried friend and frighten bunny. We therefore wheel in Chines politicins and allow them o look slimy and disengenious on airtime (and hardly bother hiding our distain). while politicians indulge in attacking china (and yet of course still tl to it): moreover these attacks are of the distinctly anxious kind. we thunder out abuse, and then worry about the consequences - thereby confirming our role as frightened (if very very very slightly defiant bunny) and China's role as game keeper. And yet as any worried friend we d not really mean to cary any of this home. No sanctions or Olympic boycott (when china suggests we are doing this we get jumpy), and so no teeth.We will still allow the ludicorus spectacle of the Olympic Dream t continue and China to preen itself as a world power.
Well it is I suppose nice to now who is boss.


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