a little bit of politics.... always good on a Friday afternoon

Once, I read an article in which a scenario was set up in which our hero was shackled in a cell with no windows and a padlocked iron-clad door. Water was rising from an opening in the wall and he was in danger of drowning.

Several distinguished writers and novelists were invited to put forward a 'final chapter' in which our hero got out of his sticky situation, in the same way as our heroes of the fifties did.

Long convoluted missives were submitted detailing just how our hero, evaded a ghastly death, but the winner was the shortest there, in one short sentence:

"And with a bound he was free!"

I have a distinct feeling that that is exactly what I have just witnessed after the publication of the Butler Report.

What I find most galling is that the Tories are an even worse option than this present lot, who are, lets face it 'Tory Lite'. Not that I much faith in the 'old labour' who were just social capitalists instead of patrichan capitalists.

Oh well if they are both equally useless then it may be that the LibDems get a share of power and push for PR in the country, then more people are likely to vote 'cos they know that their vote will actually count towards the final reckoning. I hope.


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