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# Needs more terrifed MPs hiding behind him
Desperately clutching at any remaining cash they can get their mitts on.
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 9:30, archived)
# I love the MP's thought process...
"The Speaker has been trying to obstruct the release of this information for years. So as soon as the public found out what shits we are, I knew it was time for the Speaker to go."
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 9:34, archived)
# Oh they all need to be shot.
The thing is, when I was saying "All politicians are lying, self-serving, self-important, selfish scum only in it for themselves at the expense of whoever they can screw" two weeks ago, as I had been doing for years and years and years and years, people would reply with "Oh you're just trying to be fashionably cynical".

I don't know who I hate more - the politicians or the general public for being surprised and shocked.
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 9:43, archived)
# Is the general public surprised and shocked?

(, Wed 20 May 2009, 9:47, archived)
# Well they didn't appear to be concerned before this all kicked off.
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 9:52, archived)
# Because they didn't know about it.
Outrage doesn't mean surprise. But I agree a lot of people seem shocked and I wonder why too.

Then I remember the public are idiots who think what the Sun wants them to think.
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 9:54, archived)
# Ace Top Tip in Viz:
"Daily Mail editors: underline the important words in your headlines to make it absolutely clear what it is you want your readership to think."
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 10:03, archived)
# It depends
whether you were saying that from the perspective of having looked into a large number of MP's personal arrangements, or from the perspective of just not bothering and writing them all off on some vague impression?
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 10:06, archived)
# From the knowledge of human nature
And the consequent distrusting anyone who seeks a position of power or leadership.
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 10:09, archived)
# classic political smokescreen
"shit everyone's looking at us, quick look over there"
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 9:44, archived)
# Yes, but people fall for it. Every time.
CF the ID card debate - "Oo look! A pigeon!" *passes laws, passes laws*
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 9:46, archived)
# Do Not Pass Law,
Do Not Collect 200,000 allowance credit!
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 10:15, archived)
# Classic Matt cartoon in the Torygraph today with almost that exact text!
(, Wed 20 May 2009, 9:45, archived)