Fit for purpose...

[davefreer]

I see Michael Martin - the UK speaker of the house, is eminently suited for a job in the ANC government. When we had scandal about baby deaths in the E Cape a while back, the Panjandrums promised decisive action in following the matter up. They did. They fired the whistle-blower! Martin - calling in police to follow up on the leak of commons

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[masgramondou]

There's a reason why British citizens call our rulers ZANU Labour...

[davefreer]

they've learned well. Have they got a youth league yet to threaten to kill for Brown ;-)

[reverancepavane]

It's been a case of "Caesar's wife must be seen to be above reproach" rather than "Caesar's wife must be above reproach" for quite a while now in most western democracies. There were quite a number of federal police investigations in Oz during the last parliament in order to trace links that were simply embarrassing to the government. Wheras the "leaks" that followed the government line went uninvestigated, even if they were "sensitive" matters.

[davefreer]

A friend of mine (from Oz) said the natural australian attitude to politicians was that they're all liars and thieves unless they proved otherwise. (grin) What has happened to this noble sentiment? I mean putting them in a sheep-paddock in the middle of nowhere doesn't seem to have worked. And (suspiciously) what happened to the sheep?

[katepaulk]

Alas, the federal police are directly employed by the liars and thieves.

Dave, the sheep are in Parliament. Natural consequence of letting thieves and liars get too close to a sheep paddock.

[davefreer]

And there I was just suspicious about their tucker-bags. With my scots heredity you'd have to check what I had mine.