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Order, order
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 04:33 pmThe headline blaring out of the BBC News Website as I type is: “Rupert Murdoch 'not a fit person' to lead News Corp – MPs" .
Now, I don’t feel particularly disposed to argue that assessment, though I doubt he’s quite the monster he’s been painted these past few decades. He’s managed to ruffle many a feather since the public became aware of him and News International, since the days when he bought out the Sun Newspaper way back when.
I think what gets me most about the headline is simply that of all people in society, Members of Parliament as a group are probably the least qualified to get on their high horses and condemn someone else. I mean really, I know it’s gone quiet, but surely no-one’s forgotten the expenses fiddles these honourable ladies and gentlemen indulged in until the news found its way into the media? Surely no-one’s forgotten the general level of sleaze and incompetence that pervades the place?
There is more than the usual whiff of hypocrisy floating out of the Palace of Westminster today.
Now, I don’t feel particularly disposed to argue that assessment, though I doubt he’s quite the monster he’s been painted these past few decades. He’s managed to ruffle many a feather since the public became aware of him and News International, since the days when he bought out the Sun Newspaper way back when.
I think what gets me most about the headline is simply that of all people in society, Members of Parliament as a group are probably the least qualified to get on their high horses and condemn someone else. I mean really, I know it’s gone quiet, but surely no-one’s forgotten the expenses fiddles these honourable ladies and gentlemen indulged in until the news found its way into the media? Surely no-one’s forgotten the general level of sleaze and incompetence that pervades the place?
There is more than the usual whiff of hypocrisy floating out of the Palace of Westminster today.