HOW CAN YOU SIT IN THE PLACE AND BE DEBARRED FROM VOTING FOR IT?

Just a quick question here...

...Without going into the contentious matter of the rights and wrongs of human rights: whether we should have any, whether we should share them with Europeans, whether indeed we should share them with the English, who have a very different view from us on most things.

What on earth makes Jack Straw and the Tory right think that it is unacceptable for a prisoner, inside for a relatively minor crime, to lose his right to vote in an election, when it is perfectly legal UNDER ENGLISH LAW...(nothing forced on us by Europe), for an MP to go to prison and remain an MP, on full salary and benefits?



Is there not an irony that whilst he remains a paid member of the House of Commons, he is unable to vote for its composition?

And what of our dear and much loved Upper House? Of course they don’t vote in London parliamentary elections, but they can be released from the Scrubs, get on the first bus, and go straight back into their Noble Members’ House, pop on their ermine and, after a hearty luncheon subsidised by us, can slip into the House and sleep it off, passing go and collecting £350 as they do.

Are we all mad? Is Jack Straw mad? (OK silly question). Is he well suited to the Tory right? (OK another silly question).

Hello, is there anyone there?

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PS: Something else to think about. If the ruling from the ECHR was given in 2005 and Jack Straw sat on it for 5 years, leaving it to the Tories to sort out the mess, then why does Elmer think that he’s got something really clever to say about the fact that the decision on students’ payments, or not, for University, will not be made until after May?

And I looking for an answer more detailed that the simple and plainly obvious fact that he is criminally stupid.

Pics: (1) Jack Straw and an unknown woman. Don't you wish they could swap clothes? (2) A pretty average member of the House of Lords. (3) Do these two still have the right to vote despite killing hundreds of thousands of people?

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BENEFIT CHEATS..... WATCH YOUR BACKS....THE DWP IS OUT TO GET YOU (WELL OBVIOUSLY NOT ALL OF YOU)

Why is it that when they put up this kind of poster the photograph is always of a working class person in a working class area of a town?

You see what I mean... I mean, does this fellow here look like he could have a job that paid £64,766 a year... nope, I tell a lie, £64,766 +1.5% ?

Nope. He looks like he's on the dole.

....Well, yes it does, you see. And despite what the pictures say, it shouldn't matter much if you are just plain old Joe in a t-shirt or.... if you do earn £65,000 whatever a year and have a generous expense account....

Yes... this one is a bit different, isn't it? And that's because no one in the Department of Work and Pensions came up with this one. On no Sir. They are far too busy chasing the poor who are fiddling to stay alive, to bother with the likes of this fellow here.

But isn't he every bit as culpable?