Darling is the lastest cabinet expenses scammer

[Eric Mc]

In my opinion, they are easy targets. The press seem to have decided that this is their current "crusade". I am always wary when something suddenly "seems" to have reached epidemic proportions - be it mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes or MPs fiddling expenses.

Our perception of the seriousness of certain situations is as much to do with the nedia's decision to chose it as their "topic of the moment".

Tom Woolfe called the press "The Grand Victorian Gent". They chose who we love and who we hate and when we should love and/or hate them.

In the modern world, "The Third Estate" has somehow become "The First Estate". They are dictating the agenda. And I am extremely concerned about this.

[Fittster]

Eric Mc said:

In my opinion, they are easy targets. The press seem to have decided that this is their current "crusade". I am always wary when something suddenly "seems" to have reached epidemic proportions - be it mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes or MPs fiddling expenses.

Didn't mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes have to be addressed? Just because the press it focused on an issue doesn't mean it shouldn't be reformed.

[smilerbaker]

Fittster said:

Eric Mc said:

In my opinion, they are easy targets. The press seem to have decided that this is their current "crusade". I am always wary when something suddenly "seems" to have reached epidemic proportions - be it mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes or MPs fiddling expenses.

Didn't mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes have to be addressed? Just because the press it focused on an issue doesn't mean it shouldn't be reformed.

ah yes, bird flu, whatever happened to that, arn't we all supposed to be dead of that by now?

[Mr E]

Our elected representatives appear to be unable to govern themselves.
How do they expect to govern us?

[Fittster]

smilerbaker said:

Fittster said:

Eric Mc said:

In my opinion, they are easy targets. The press seem to have decided that this is their current "crusade". I am always wary when something suddenly "seems" to have reached epidemic proportions - be it mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes or MPs fiddling expenses.

Didn't mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes have to be addressed? Just because the press it focused on an issue doesn't mean it shouldn't be reformed.

ah yes, bird flu, whatever happened to that, arn't we all supposed to be dead of that by now?

So the government shouldn't take proactive measures or ensure that bird flu could be managed? Personally I think stock piling drugs and culls of infect birds is more sensible than simply waiting for a large public disease to potentially breakout before begining to act.

[smilerbaker]

Fittster said:

smilerbaker said:

Fittster said:

Eric Mc said:

In my opinion, they are easy targets. The press seem to have decided that this is their current "crusade". I am always wary when something suddenly "seems" to have reached epidemic proportions - be it mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes or MPs fiddling expenses.

Didn't mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes have to be addressed? Just because the press it focused on an issue doesn't mean it shouldn't be reformed.

ah yes, bird flu, whatever happened to that, arn't we all supposed to be dead of that by now?

So the government shouldn't take proactive measures or ensure that bird flu could be managed? Personally I think stock piling drugs and culls of infect birds is more sensible than simply waiting for a large public disease to potentially breakout before begining to act.

stock piling drugs for a desease that doesn't exsist yet, so they have no idea if the drugs will do anything.

[Fittster]

smilerbaker said:

Fittster said:

smilerbaker said:

Fittster said:

Eric Mc said:

In my opinion, they are easy targets. The press seem to have decided that this is their current "crusade". I am always wary when something suddenly "seems" to have reached epidemic proportions - be it mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes or MPs fiddling expenses.

Didn't mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes have to be addressed? Just because the press it focused on an issue doesn't mean it shouldn't be reformed.

ah yes, bird flu, whatever happened to that, arn't we all supposed to be dead of that by now?

So the government shouldn't take proactive measures or ensure that bird flu could be managed? Personally I think stock piling drugs and culls of infect birds is more sensible than simply waiting for a large public disease to potentially breakout before begining to act.

stock piling drugs for a desease that doesn't exsist yet, so they have no idea if the drugs will do anything.

Bird flu does exist and there are drugs which may help limit symptoms and reduce the chances the disease will spread. If the government was to simply bury its head in the sand and say it's all a media invention they would be hugely irresponsible.

You don't wait for a major public health outbreak before you start to react.

[Mclovin]

think brown said they got one of their committees on this and they will have a decision in 6 months....they just want to keep the gravy train rolling until the election i reckon..

[Puggit]

Add Margaret Beckett to the list of morally wrong Labour ministers

[EdJ]

Fittster said:

Didn't mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes have to be addressed? Just because the press it focused on an issue doesn't mean it shouldn't be reformed.

You should read Scared to Death by Christopher Booker (and someone else) - he runs through all the various scares that have been hyped up by the press including global warming, BSE etc etc. It's a great book, if a bit despressing.

[gamefreaks]

You would have hoped that with him being Chanceller, he could have been a little more creative with his expences fiddling?

[Engineer1]

Fittster said:

smilerbaker said:

Fittster said:

smilerbaker said:

Fittster said:

Eric Mc said:

In my opinion, they are easy targets. The press seem to have decided that this is their current "crusade". I am always wary when something suddenly "seems" to have reached epidemic proportions - be it mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes or MPs fiddling expenses.

Didn't mad cows, bird flu, plane crashes, earthquakes have to be addressed? Just because the press it focused on an issue doesn't mean it shouldn't be reformed.

ah yes, bird flu, whatever happened to that, arn't we all supposed to be dead of that by now?

So the government shouldn't take proactive measures or ensure that bird flu could be managed? Personally I think stock piling drugs and culls of infect birds is more sensible than simply waiting for a large public disease to potentially breakout before begining to act.

Bird flu is real and it was luck and good planning that preventing it from spreading to this country, however there is still a chance it will reappear sometime this year.

stock piling drugs for a desease that doesn't exsist yet, so they have no idea if the drugs will do anything.

Bird flu does exist and there are drugs which may help limit symptoms and reduce the chances the disease will spread. If the government was to simply bury its head in the sand and say it's all a media invention they would be hugely irresponsible.

You don't wait for a major public health outbreak before you start to react.

[fluffnik]

Eric Mc said:

If we allow ourselves to be riled up and "angrified" by all these stories, what is the outcome of all this anger going to be?

Hopefully we get a new political class running a smaller less intrusive state on our behalf.