The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

The Groucho Marx test for politicians

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BBC News – Huhne: Speeding story was 'payback' for criticism of Murdoch press.

Chris Huhne demonstrates once again that anyone who wants to join the Westminster Club is not fit to be a member. Note the Huhne-centric view of the Universe here. Note the astonishing sense of self-importance. He committed a crime. He involved his wife. He lied about it consistently. He made his own son hate him with his selfish, dishonest behaviour. He was caught out and mild justice was administered. Yet all of this was not his fault. It was all about him though, in that it was a wicked conspiracy by his political foes to bring him down from the dizzy lows of Lib-Demmery. 

Please apply palm to face and repeat after me: 'Only vain, wicked people want a job taking others' money by force to spend on buying votes'

2 responses to “The Groucho Marx test for politicians”

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    Andrew

    His piece in The Guardian’s even worse:
    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/08/despise-politicians-my-part-murdoch-machine
    Not only does he refuse to take responsibility for his actions, he claims “media ownership must be more diverse”, and “if competition policy is not enough, then we should have statutory limitations or even help for small media outfits”.

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    Moggsy

    Well the “man” has no shame for sure, offering an excuse like that would make a normal person just curl up and die with embarrasment. Dosn’t he sound just a bit like a person explaining why they were held down, never made it big and have to live off the state? M
    Maybe politicians ought to be picked by some process like jury service…

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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