Twisted Values?

A friend sent me an email containing the text of an article reputed to have been written by a Spanish journalist in 2008. I wasn't blogging then; I have no idea whether the article is a 'spoof', or whether it is genuine. To attempt to ascertain that I used google and whilst there are quite a few references to this article, no mention of the paper could be found - maybe I did not look hard enough. Anyway, I chose this link and care not if it has been aired previously.

Christopher Booker, in his usual Sunday Telegraph column, reports on the plight of ex-Pte Epeli Uluilakeba, who now faces deportation. The last paragraph of Booker's article demonstrates the ridiculous state of affairs under which we now live.

"As Mrs Smith says: “I cannot believe this country has allowed rapists, child molesters and terrorists to stay here, yet a man who is quite willing to give his life for Queen and country is being booted out.” Mrs Laga adds: “When you consider who we let into this country and provide for, it is a shame that we cannot look after a war veteran and a hero, a man who would be getting on with his life if allowed to."

Hopefully I speak for many in this nation when I say I am completely disgusted to live in a country where rapists, child molesters, murderers and terrorists can remain - invariably funded by the state; I am completely disgusted that we will be forced to grant votes to those incarcerated who have, by their own volition, broken the rules of our society; I am disgusted to have as a Prime Minister someone who was at pains to publicly state that the "poorest and most vulnerable" would be protected - but aren't as a result of policies instigated by that same Prime Minister; I am disgusted to have as a Prime Minister someone who has the bare-faced cheek to lecture Egypt on democracy when he cannot - and does not wish to - introduce it in his own country; I am disgusted to have as a Prime Minister someone who maintains he governs our nation but so patently doesn't; and I am even more disgusted to have as a Prime Minister someone who cares not for his Privy Councillor Oath of Allegiance, who consequently has not the faintest idea of honour.

I despair of a political system that allows the Leader of a political party to 'control' his Members of Parliament in respect of how those MPs vote; I despair of a political system that allows MPs to be elected who are forced to put the interests of their party before those of their constituents and their country; even more am I disgusted that we can elect MPs who are not prepared to inform their party Leader to 'go hang'; and I despair of a political system that allows am MP, who also happens to be the Prime Minister, to inform one of his constituents who has a complaint concerning the 'mis-treatment' of a section of society that his complaint won't be considered because it 'falls foul' of national policy.

And people wonder why I want to slaughter them, to 'Hang 'Em High'?