Spero
I hope squillions of mumsnetters cut and paste that, make some edits to personalise and then send it to their MP.
Each tiny "chip away" makes the Big Fat Rock smaller and more quashable.
And it's important. This is what I wrote on the restirred forum that has been giving the sysnopsis so many hits. I mean every single word of it.
There will come a time when it is too late to even try.
Might as well have a go while there is a still chance.
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Other poster to me....You've got the measure of John Hemming
My reply..
I wish I hadn't. All my illusions about the British political class being held in check by a very beady eyed Court of Public Opinion are lying in smithereens at my feet. Just cos I clicked that thread on mumsnet and joined in the debate.
When I left Britain for Thailand (cos at only 21 years old I just couldn't face another round of recession after getting through the 80s by the skin of my teeth) John Major was PM.
A month after John Smith became leader of the opposition Black May happened right outside my front door. And then there are the couple of decades or so of watching buffons and the entirely self interested slimeballs treating Italy like a piggy bank with which to sustain their lust for self indulgence and self importance.
I am not saying John Hemming is an fetal Bettino Craxi, let alone an embryonic Suchinda Kraprayoon. But he may represent the nearing of The Tipping Point where the public feeling impotent in the face of a "just plain old wrong'un" elected offical gets replaced with actually being impotent. Cos it's just too late to try and place limits on them.
I believe there is a point where "there is nothing we can do to stop them" becomes fact rather than sensation. And, I think perhaps the rest of them, (and the future them), look at how people like Hemming lower standards of conduct and get away with it ... and treat it as a green light in a race to the bottom.
Which is why I have gone all "dog with bone" over this. I know how much worse things can be in the political classes outside of Britian. Not at all keen on somebody like him paving the road to similarly entrenched rock bottom standards back home. I just hope I haven't woken up to reality at home too late.
Am kicking myself for relying on memory rather than keeping up in a meaningful way.