PJC Journal – Original

At the CBI Dinner, Count Mandelson regretted ordering the steak.

His
Sliminess himself, Dark Lord Mandy of Airstrip One, has been charged by
the Brown Gorgon with the task of promoting British business. His idea
of doing this is to tell us that nobody in this country is any use at running a business.

I quote:

Lord Mandelson, the man chosen by Gordon Brown to help British business survive the recession…

See?
His job is to help British business survive the recession. Yet he plans
to part-privatise the post office by selling it to a Dutch firm. Why?
Well…

He signalled that the
reason Dutch managers were likely to be brought in to run Royal Mail
was because British managers were not capable of turning the
public-sector business into a success.

British
businessmen are no use. Thus spake the Dark One. The same Dark One
whose job it is to promote British business. What a fine job he's
doing. For the EU, of course. Not for us.

I wonder if the MP's
sitting in the House of Commons will have any say in his decision? They
had no say on Heathrow. They will have no say on the Gorgon's new bin taxes.
Parliament is just a place to put people who have no other use
nowadays. A political version of Remploy. They aren't allowed to
actually decide anything. The EU and the Gorgon deal with that.

Those
few MP's who responded to the receipt of their book copies during the Libertarian Party led 1984 campaign did so
with derision. We are paranoid, they said. Totalitarian state?
Dictatorship? This is a democracy. I expect the more witless among them
still believe that even though their unelected, unwanted and undead
Business Monster is trying to remove the 'British' part from the phrase
'British business', while their unelected, unwanted and unpleasant
Prime Monster overrides Parliament on every issue he can.

They don't care about Parliament, these people. How can they expect us to believe they care about us?

This is effectively the closure of the UK Parliament. Will Cameron and Clegg have the balls to reclaim it.

H/T LegIron on Old Holborn

At the CBI Dinner, Count Mandelson regretted ordering the steak.

His
Sliminess himself, Dark Lord Mandy of Airstrip One, has been charged by
the Brown Gorgon with the task of promoting British business. His idea
of doing this is to tell us that nobody in this country is any use at running a business.

I quote:

Lord Mandelson, the man chosen by Gordon Brown to help British business survive the recession…

See?
His job is to help British business survive the recession. Yet he plans
to part-privatise the post office by selling it to a Dutch firm. Why?
Well…

He signalled that the
reason Dutch managers were likely to be brought in to run Royal Mail
was because British managers were not capable of turning the
public-sector business into a success.

British
businessmen are no use. Thus spake the Dark One. The same Dark One
whose job it is to promote British business. What a fine job he's
doing. For the EU, of course. Not for us.

I wonder if the MP's
sitting in the House of Commons will have any say in his decision? They
had no say on Heathrow. They will have no say on the Gorgon's new bin taxes.
Parliament is just a place to put people who have no other use
nowadays. A political version of Remploy. They aren't allowed to
actually decide anything. The EU and the Gorgon deal with that.

Those
few MP's who responded to the receipt of their book copies during the Libertarian Party led 1984 campaign did so
with derision. We are paranoid, they said. Totalitarian state?
Dictatorship? This is a democracy. I expect the more witless among them
still believe that even though their unelected, unwanted and undead
Business Monster is trying to remove the 'British' part from the phrase
'British business', while their unelected, unwanted and unpleasant
Prime Monster overrides Parliament on every issue he can.

They don't care about Parliament, these people. How can they expect us to believe they care about us?

This is effectively the closure of the UK Parliament. Will Cameron and Clegg have the balls to reclaim it.

H/T LegIron on Old Holborn

Uh oh.  Ministers are about to conceal MPs’ expenses, even though the public has just paid £1m to get them all ready for publication, and even though the tax man expects citizens to do what MPs don’t have to.
They buried the news on the day of the Heathrow runway announcement.
This is heading in the diametric wrong direction from government
openness.

This is the draft Statutory Instrument that is being used to cover up MP's expenses.

You can help in the following three ways:

1. Please write to your MP about this www.WriteToThem.com
- ask them to lobby against this concealment, and tell them that
TheyWorkForYou will be permanently and prominently noting those MPs who
took the opportunity to fight against this regressive move. The
millions of constituents who will check this site before the next
election will doubtless be interested.

2. Join this facebook group
and invite all your least political friends (plus your most political
too). Send them personal mails, phone or text them. Encourage them to
write to their politicians too.

3. Write to your local paper to tell them you’re angry, and ask them
to ask their readers to do the above. mySociety’s never-finished site http://news.mysociety.org might be able to help you here.

NB. mySociety is strictly non-partisan, by mission and by ethics.
However, when it looks like Parliament is about to take a huge step in
the wrong direction on transparency, we’ve no problem at all with
stepping up when changes happen that threaten both the public interest
and the ongoing value of sites like  TheyWorkForYou and WhatDoTheyKnow.

H/T mySociety