The sun shone this morning, I did not see it, my was head down on the floor fixing the loo into something of a serviceable workplace. Now it gleams, sort off, smells of disinfectant, and can be used buy non choosy members of the public. I also dumped the rubbish, then the recycling, exercised and by the time I sat down to watch the cricket I was knackered. The cricket of course had started early, not at 3 pm as I expected, and I only saw Scotland's vain but glorious effort to catch the enemies total. They can come home with heads held high and with much hope for the next tournament.
The work took a while today, what took ten minutes in the past took ages today, however, I needed to work, the execise was good for me, the job is done, nothing else went wrong, and a sense of achievement warmed me. Nothing else bar the blanket around me was warm today. In fact I even put the heating on at one point the temperature had fallen so low. Rain clouds warmed the air later to a pitch of 'just freezing.'
Owen Paterson MP was caught by the Parliamentary Standards Commission fiddling things. He took money, twice his salary it appears, to lobby on behalf of certain companies. This breaks the rules! The Commission banned him from the House for 30 days, very lenient in the circumstances, and today Boris led a rebellion against this finding. A vote for an amendment opposing the ban was annpunced, the Tories put a 3 line whip on this, meaning all Tory MPs must support the vote as told, and in the end the vote was won by 250 votes to 232. The 'Ayes' had it.
There is more to this than meets the eye. For a start 6 Tory MPs who supported the motion have been disciplined in the past, many others may be earning cash for similar law breaking, and if Paterson was banned he could suffer what is called a 'Recall.' This may lead to a By-election in his seat that he could lose. Indeed, under the Recall he might have to walk away. So many actions of this government are corrupt Boris fears such Commissions will render his will unlawful. Therefore he has a bright idea, he will amend the Commission and insert his pown peoiple into it. The problem there is both the Labour Party and the SNP, meaning most of the opposition, will not join this Commission, and a Tory only Commission has no meaning. Maybe Boris wanted this? Certainly he has much to hide so he will not allow questioning of his illegal tactics and dubious behaviour.
The country is run by corruption and so many do not perceive this or do not care.
2 comments:
Scotland, as always, did well against top opposition...but they have done well and I hope this will bring some money into their game at home as it costs a fortune to invite foreign teams to play on home soil.
I watched the debate on parliament Live...Rees Mogg filibustering to use up time on time limit debate, hypocrisy in full spate...and people vote for these crooks!
Fly, Now the outcry has caused Boris to force him to resign. 250 MPs who supported him ought to be receiving letters from their constituents.
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