Beware the LibDemCon
This newswire has been scarily quiet on the Cameron/Clegg coalition love-in, perhaps people have been too busy reaching for the sick bucket? It's not like the coalition came as a complete surprise, given our experiences of the Tories & LibDems in Bristol. Despite what may have been said during the election campaign (you didn't really believe those nasty things they said about each other surely?), these two were born for eachother - same class, same backgrounds, same politics. Well the rapid downfall of multi-millionaire south west MP David Laws gives us the ideal opportunity to demonstrate that in politics nothing has changed.
Laws, the MP for Yeovil, and ex-Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has claimed at least £40,000.00 in rent expenses in recent years, and paid it to his 'landlord', who he has been in a continuous relationship with since 2001, and who is therefore his 'partner'. This breach of parliamentary rules is explained by Laws as an attempt by himself to keep his and his partner's private lives 'intensely private', hence his failure to disclose the money was paid to his partner.

Let's leave aside the hypocrisy of a man whose job was to impose cuts in public spending whilst he fiddled his own expenses. The hypocrisy of a man who claims 'privacy' whilst being a part of a ruling system that seeks out every possible private detail about the rest of us and monitors us continually day and night. The hypocrisy of a man who made millions with investment bankers JP Morgan but expects us ordinary taxpayers to bail out the finacial system he helped build up, whilst claiming every last penny out of us he can get. The hypocrisy of a man who continually lied about his sexuality and status. Instead lets look at what those other exponents of ultra-white clean politics have to say about him:
Cameron - You are are a good and honourable man.
Clegg - I have always admired his intelligence, his sense of public duty and his personal integrity.
Ashdown - I can tell you he is Mr Integrity.
Ed Balls - Having worked with David Laws over the last 3 years, I am personally very sorry about what has happened.

How can we trust the judgement of these people? Would they say the same about one of us if we got caught fiddling our benefits, such as paying £40,000.00 housing benefit to our partners? Oh no, they'd be clamouring for a benefit clampdown and prison for the lawbreakers. The fact is they believe they are above the laws and rules they expect the rest of us to abide by. They are the continual living proof that power ultimately corrupts, and that all politicans are, or will become, liars. The solution is not changing the party or parties that rule us (with a minority of backing from the electorate), but changing the very way we embrace democracy. And I'm not going down the blind alley of proportional representation either.

by one of the 34.9% of the electorate who didn't think any of the parties worthy of voting for