Guys. Get a room.

I am only too pleased to have made an old man happy. Without paying him is a bonus, of course.

Let us celebrate; have some undercooked chicken, John?

No. Too many way too interested in getting their snouts in the trough for their own personal gain.

But it is a bit like insisting the world would be a better place if we were all Buddhists. It might be, it may not, but since there will always be mankind involved in the decision we shall never know.

You’ve spent your entire ‘career fixing problems?’. You need more practice; take it from me, success has eluded you.

And John should know…;o)

Socialism is a farce that will never ever work…. fine in principal, but while the Soviet population lived in squalor and with shortages of everything, the party elite lived a grandiose life style of Dachas, Private holiday villas and plenty of everything the decadent west produced. For every ideal there are those that will rise to the top and take advantage of that position to better their cause..

Which only goes to prove that theory about excrement floating.

The essence of socialism has never been practised when governing a nation. Soviet Russia was communist Russia, despite calling itself socialist Russia – which any student of politics will tell you it was not.
The excesses of the communist regime more or less match those of a fascist regime – both are essentially dictatorships where any attempt at voting is skewed and the opposition (if they are permitted) are scapegoats for whatever the ruler/s care to blame them for, the common downtrodden people live in fear of changes in direction and political mood swings, the accepted class system still has a ladder with the lowest rung being those in a position of disenfranchised worker and the highest an elite whose position has been given as a reward or due to their usefulness to the regime, where if they upset those in authority then they can become an ‘unperson’ and disappear into the legion of missing or be subjected to a show trial where their crimes – real or not – will be revealed to the world. Witness the treatment of East Europeans or South Americans in the latter half of the last century, or the happy state that is North Korea at the moment.
But you all know this.

A socialist utopia has yet to happen, anywhere. You would do better to pass judgement on one when it happens.

It isn’t expecting too much to expect that MP’s should like Caesar’s wife; ‘be above suspicion’. That is very much not the case with this particular example of political lowlife.

One wonders if this would have made John froth at the mouth so much had this not been involved the political left…
Does he remember Edwina Currie and her affair with the grey man? How about Jerry Hayes and his extramarital affair with an 18 year old man (at a time when the homosexual age of consent was 21) despite the fact he was married? During the Back to Basics campaign Tim Yeo had a ‘love child’, after telling the country that more needed to be done to reduce the number of single parent families. Then there is Lord Caithness, Malcolm Sinclair, whose wife killed herself when it came to light that he had been having an affair. Or David Mellor, his football shirt and extramarital affair, plus his connections to the PLO? Do I really need to mention the ‘delightful’ Jeffrey Archer? Or Cecil Parkinson? What about Lord Lambton, whose associations with prostitutes also caught out Earl George Jellicoe and his ‘few casual affairs’ with call girls?

The above are just the recent sex scandals from the Conservatives – if we were to examine business and financial irregularities then we would need more space and repeated doses of caffeine to suspend boredom, but the question still remains: shouldn’t all of these politicians also have been considered above suspicion in their roles as representatives of the people, not to mention ministers of government?

The dictator of a former Soviet state…

The Uzbek government has confirmed the death of President Islam Karimov, six days after he was taken to hospital with a suspected brain haemorrhage.
One of Asia’s most authoritarian leaders, Mr Karimov, 78, died after 27 years in power.
Mr Karimov has no clear successor. There is no legal political opposition and the media are tightly controlled.
He will be buried on Saturday in his home city of Samarkand, Uzbek state TV announced.
A UN report has described the use of torture under Mr Karimov as “systematic”.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37260375