Here we go again. Kicking someone out of office in our government.
Once again, it is not my love of, or commitment to politics that causes me to speak. It's more my fundamental sense of basic human decency.
I worry that the media currently hold so much power that they can remove virtually anyone from office.
If I had a swanky house in the country with a croquet lawn, I bet I would give it a go sometime or other. Just for a laugh if nothing else. Hey, I might even let folks take pictures of my making an idiot of myself playing I game I hardly know.
Now, we are being asked to swallow that John Prescott's croquet playing is a reason that he is unfit for office. Pull the other one, guys. I am so sick of this kind of reporting.
The reason for so many people to leave office is that the story runs and runs, not that the original problem was a sufficiently serious one. As soon as an individual becomes too high profile for the wrong reasons they are removed. No-one seems to be able to tough it out under such media glare.
Is this really what we want, or maybe we just like reading and viewing trash? I imagine Mr. Prescott (a man who I know all but nothing about) will soon be completely kicked out simply because some red-top newspapers manage to rake up another round or two of tenuous dirt.
We are pretty quick to spot when the Big Brother producers use editing to show people in both good and bad ways - how come we fall for the mainstream media tricks so easily?
Good luck John, I do hope you hang in there.
Was that some 'anti Big Brother' that I heard....
Posted by: Ian | June 04, 2006 at 09:22 AM
Oh, I don't worship Big Brother, Ian.
I actually take great pleasure in sussing out the various weaknesses etc.
I think that I am a pretty negative person a lot of the time. I'd like to change that.
Posted by: Andy Curtis | June 04, 2006 at 06:04 PM
You want to change your most redeeming feature?
Posted by: Ian | June 04, 2006 at 06:49 PM