By Wee Hamish

Imagine this. You have an argument with someone who gets aggressive and makes threats against you and your family. You have proof because someone was filming the incident. You go to the Police and the person you were arguing is charged but the Court lets them off because they claim that they were speaking off the cuff and didn’t really mean to carry out their threats.

Are you happy with that? I certainly wouldn’t be. I’d be pure raging.

But that’s how Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw explained away their promises to act on behalf of a fictitious Chinese Company in exchange for the equivalent of brown paper envelopes stuffed with cash. They didn’t really mean it, you see. Honestly, they wouldn’t have actually taken the money.

Yeah, right. Especially if they’d known they were being filmed, I suppose.

But they broke no rules, apparently. At least, that’s according to a panel of other MPs who blamed the media people who made the sting. You see, it is unethical to wave money in front of MPs and film them greedily promising to perform whatever tricks you ask them to do, but it’s not unethical for the greedy bastards to make promises to prostitute themselves for personal gain.

That’s right. A bunch of MPs found two of their chums not guilty of breaking rules they made up themselves, so everything’s OK.

I don’t know about anyone else but I’m sick of the rancid corruption at Westminster. It will never change. It doesn’t want to change and it doesn’t know how to change and the best thing we can do is break free of its corrupt influence as soon as possible.