Surprise surprise

23 February, 2015 (22:36) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

I do get cross about righteous indignation. Journalists judging MPs’ morality? Don’t make me laugh. I’ve been a journalist off and on for years and while I myself am a good and deserving person who is kind to animals (apart from cats, which are bastards) I wouldn’t trust many of my colleagues to run a tap. Specifically, many of my colleagues in the national press and broadcast media.

So journalists assume the moral high ground and lecture MPs who abuse their position of power to make the most of their situation. Any of those journalists ever accepted a freebie, as I have? I’ve travelled the world, gone to the theatre, eaten meals, drunk fine wines, stayed in luxury hotels, hopped charter flights, read books, listened to music – all because I was a journalist, was offered review trips or press facilities, and accepted them with alacrity.

But everybody – everybody – uses their position in life as much to their advantage as possible. Everybody. If you can help your child, you do. If you can help a friend, you do. I’m not much use to anybody, really, but if ever anybody asks me to help them out with some publicity, I do it. Often, they do something for me in return. And that’s all fine.

So MPs abuse their position? So what. So bloody what. Of course they do. Was there ever any doubt that the lot of them are anything other than a bunch of ferrets in a sack?

Look, I don’t give a toss. It disturbs me far more that today’s MPs seem to be intellectual pygmies devoid of principle, compassion or intent. I don’t care if an MP is whoring and snorting his way through the bordellos of Piccadilly, selling access left right and centre, if he or she is actually going to do something to help this country, like nationalise the railways and power providers, reinvent the health service, regulate the banks, make the rich pay their taxes, help the poor and needy.

And who gives a toss about MPs selling access? If somebody is so buttock-clenchingly stupid as to pay money to have dinner with David Cameron well, they are more to be pitied than censured. What we should do is tax the dopey bastards: if they’re so thick they want to associated with people of the low moral character of bankers, let them pay for the privilege and help you and I out.

MPs corrupt, eh? Next you’ll be telling me bankers are a venal bunch of crooks.

 

 

Comments

Comment from Old Fiddle
Time February 23, 2015 at 10:47 pm

“….help you and ME out.” See me at 4 o’clock, Fraser. But I’m glad that tight-lipped, looking-down-nose, anally-clenched, clipped speech Scot has shown himself up. Between £5 & 8k for a day’s ‘work’! What a slime ball….

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