Shock resignation is a wake-up call to the British people
David Davis’ resignation from his job as MP and Shadow Home Secretary yesterday, forcing a by-election in which he will stand again in protest over the issue of the 42 day detention of suspected terrorists, surprised everyone.
In two notoriously opportunistic and hard-nosed professions, politics and the media, in both of which personal convictions in the 21st Century are too often limited to expressing passionately-held beliefs over which restaurant serves the best caviare, it’s no wonder that we’ve since seen a plethora of career politicians on all sides, and political commentators, utterly incapable of understanding why Davis did what he did.
Labour offers northern Irish all their potatoes back to secure support in war on terror
The government has confirmed that it knows it will win every vote in the House of Commons right the way through to the General Election, to be held on the last possible day at the last possible hour in 2010, thanks to having made a bold offer to Democratic Unionist politicians in Northern Ireland to give them not only all their potatoes back, but all the potatoes the English took from the whole of Eire back in the day.
BT offers to ‘rip customers off some more’
As part of its ongoing drive to cut services and improve profit margins, BT has announced a new service costing just under £100. It isn’t telling anyone what that service is, but the company promises complete dissatisfaction and an inability to reach English-speaking operatives when in need of help, ‘or your money back some time before 2020′.
