The State We Are In.
English law is I am afraid, a bit of a farce. The old saying; ‘The Law is an Ass’ has never been truer.
When our archaic laws were written they may have been more suitable. However, back then there were no such things as cyber crime, credit card fraud or online paedophile rings. The long and the short of it is that our laws are in desperate need of a complete overhaul.
So much pomp is attached to it all. Do we really need to have judges and magistrates dressed in stockings and wigs? Is there any need for a guy with a rod to bang on a door in parliament and then stand and wait for it to be shut in his face? Must we really have politicians sat laughing at one another in a point scoring manner? And do they have to make noises like sheep?
What a load of rubbish. We need a very big change to all of this. All the English ‘quaintness’ may appeal to American and Japanese tourists but it serves no earthly purpose.
Even when a new law is passed (which seems to be a major event in itself), it does not immediately come into effect. The government will come up with some bright idea that will actually become law in two years time.
These people seem to live in a different world to the rest of us. That has become even more apparent since their crooked ‘expenses’ came to light. What people seem to forget though is just how long they have been fleecing us all for. And you can bet your life that we don’t even know the half of it.
I really don’t know how it is going to come about, but these people need to be replaced with grown-ups. We need a group of people to lead us who do not feel that it is necessary to dress up in silly clothes or spend hundreds of pounds on a meal. Perhaps we should start to blame the talented London PR firms that take care of them…
It will probably never happen in my lifetime but this is the sort of thing that crosses my mind when I hear these so-called ‘politicians’ droning on.