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Miserable May

Well, just six weeks or so on from my first whinge here and many of our politicians can now be seen to have had their snouts in the trough for years.

How can somebody claim mortgage expenses for 18 months after they had, presumably, paid off the loan without realising it? Why should Mr Silly Sod the British Taxpayer stump up £2,600 so Shaid Malik can have a giant TV and home cinema system or McKay and McBride make twin claims? Hazel Drears claiming on three different properties in one year and trying to dodge CGT? 'Flipping', moat cleaning, private security, doing up your house on the taxpayer! It truly is mind-boggling..

I suspect that British pigs are feeling pretty fed up at the company we are accusing them of keeping..

Perhaps every MP should face a reselection meeting before the next (and very overdue..) general election..

And then there's the Labour peers on the take? The House of Lords that ZANU Labour is so keen to reform!

Rant over - almost..

I look forward (with a wry smile..) to the annual cringefest that is the Eurovision Song Contest, taking place this weekend in Moscow because the USSR hasn't really gone away.

I shall miss the cynical old Irishman - had the world-weary cynicism becme part of the act? - and am resigned to listening to that tedious little Irish prat who is probably the most irritating twerp on the telly..

Ah well..

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