This month saw the remembrance of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ and His
Resurrection onto Life, days traditionally remembered on Good Friday and
Easter Sunday. The Good News message of Easter was the only Good News April had to offer, but it is also the most important news of all.
April saw the continuing saga over MP's expenses, from bath plugs to pornography, from second home allowances to attendance fees, from power to greed, the British House of Commons now sits disgraced in the eyes of a nation struggling to make ends meet, struggling to keep body and soul together, struggling to understand the greed that drives those we have elected across the nation. Not one ounce of regret or remorse and the endless denials
to the accusations that they have acted in bad faith. Belfast news on the matter was suspiciously quiet as the debate widened to include Northern Ireland's MPs. Peter Robinson and his wife
Iris, were branded as the Swiss Family Robinson and in turn blamed the Ulster Unionist Party for their bad press.
July will be a telling time for our politicians when their expenses are listed under Freedom of Information and the public are able to see what they have claimed on our behalf. The publication could be
catastrophic from some MPs, already under fire for double jobbing and employing their relatives. With MPs who are
MLAs, who are Government
Ministers or who sit on Councils and Committees, who run private companies and
employ relatives at public expense, our politicians could see a backlash unseen before in Northern Ireland politics.
Other news in April included Japanese research that suggests that Drinking water which contains the element lithium may reduce the risk of suicide. Why a nation would consider such an experiment beggars belief considering that nature of the drug they are playing with. The Japanese public must be well pleased that in such
trying times their money is wasted in such a way.
In political news the former Homes Secretary Charles Clarke told the nation that he was ashamed to be a Labour MP, but your too late Charles the British nation was sick to death of Labour MPs, long before your change of heart, as week by week, there seems to be no depth to which they won't sink. |
