OXYMORA ARE PERHAPS NOT everyone’s cup of tea, but I have been thinking rather deeply about what can be done with the terms “transparency”, “blackout” and “whitewash” in relation to the covert revelations produced about the expenses claimed by our good leaders during the period of Tony Blair’s “whiter than white” New Labour Party. More than one of the commentators on our daily newspapers have obviously been doing the same thing.
NO RACKING OF BRAINS seems to have been needed for The Sun to come up with “Blankers”, or The Daily Mail to produce “Blackwash” in order to describe the “redaction” of the sums and accounts showing where our representatives have been spending our hard-earned money.
A PRIME REDACTOR has to be much-loved Conservative MP Andrew Mackay, who has, to the chagrin of the people of East Bracknell, Berkshire, discovered that he ought to resign from Parliament “after a phone call from David Cameron”, the content of which he will not reveal. The content of his expenses claim form, however, can be seen above.
YET SUCH HARSH TREATEMENT must surely be doing great damage to our once-proud democracy, and I do feel we should stop this nonsense now. No one who works in an office pays for staples or paper clips, so why should MPs be any different? After all, most of them have never learnt any better. So it is time to draw a line under this issue. Or perhaps through it.
NO RACKING OF BRAINS seems to have been needed for The Sun to come up with “Blankers”, or The Daily Mail to produce “Blackwash” in order to describe the “redaction” of the sums and accounts showing where our representatives have been spending our hard-earned money.
A PRIME REDACTOR has to be much-loved Conservative MP Andrew Mackay, who has, to the chagrin of the people of East Bracknell, Berkshire, discovered that he ought to resign from Parliament “after a phone call from David Cameron”, the content of which he will not reveal. The content of his expenses claim form, however, can be seen above.
YET SUCH HARSH TREATEMENT must surely be doing great damage to our once-proud democracy, and I do feel we should stop this nonsense now. No one who works in an office pays for staples or paper clips, so why should MPs be any different? After all, most of them have never learnt any better. So it is time to draw a line under this issue. Or perhaps through it.
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