FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS

I can’t believe it – there are men out there who don’t know who Julia Bradbury is. Or Kirstie Allsopp. So just for you I have learned how to put pictures on my blog (Julia is on the left). Which for a non-techie is quite an achievement.

I must say, however, these pictures do not do the two ladies justice. Watch some TV and get the full effect.

From the sublime to the ridiculous – now for today’s real blog. If we thought the sight of MPs stuffing their snouts in the Westminster trough was pretty distasteful, it’s quite dignified compared to their European counterparts.

Fiddling the expenses, graft, wholesale corruption of bureaucracy and officialdom in general is so endemic in most parts of mainland Europe that they were mortified that some minor parts of the EU – the UK, for instance – wanted to discredit and end this blatant racketeering.

So mortified that they have voted to keep their financial shenanigans secret.

We can be proud that in the UK dishonesty is not endemic – more a minority sport. We have every right to insist that the European Court of Human Rights rules that this particular criminal gravy train is exposed.

If it can rule that discrimination against sadomasochists and pagans is illegal (did you miss that one?), it can certainly rule that discrimination against its entire tax-paying population is not only illegal but warrants that the top tier of MEPs and their bureaucrats have their goolies cut off. Or, in the case of women, their credit cards cut up. Which is probably even more painful.

Now, aren’t you glad I posted those pictures?