Bullying in the workplace

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw reports that MPs are still carrying on about their expenses.

Newsnight yesterday dramatised some of the abusive incidents.

I thought we now had a mechanism for sacking MPs who behave badly? This is an opportunity to make an example of senior personnel caught bullying in the workplace. One of them, Denis MacShane, has said he doesn't want to represent his country as an MP, so the Labour leadership should take him at his word and chuck him out.

And as for the MP who was threatening to kill someone, shouldn't he/she receive a visit from the police?

Sally Bercow "popping up"

I watched Question Time on BBC1 last night.

And I was appalled to see Sally Bercow "popping up" as one of the panel.

Are we expected to believe that she was on the panel entirely on her own merits and not because her husband is Speaker of the House of Commons? This argument is incredible, especially as Sally Bercow had nothing of any interest to say. I am fed up with public life being infiltrated by "husband and wife teams", "brother and sister teams", "brother and brother teams", "son and eighty-year-old mother teams", "devolved First Minister's wife and her toyboy lover teams", "debonair treasury secretary and his secret gay fuck-buddy teams" etc etc etc.

We have become stuck with a self-perpetuating political elite that is endlessly mutating, replicating and colonising so that you can never get rid of them. Like the lernaean hydra of ancient mythology, every time you manage to cut off a head two more grow in its place. And all the mouths have to be fed from the public finances.