To continue with the news ‘theme’ that that I have inadvertently foisted upon myself, I wonder whether I’m the only one that has noticed that through all this expenses palaver, I haven’t heard anything about anything else of ‘relevance’. To give an example, I haven’t been updated on the death toll in Iraq for quite some time (thank God), or even heard a single thing about the bankers and their pensions.
In fact the only thing I have heard about anything other that the expenses row is the collapse of general motors, another sign of the perpetually collapsing car industry. And to fly off on a wind tangent here; exactly how large was the car industry? Ever since I was old enough to recognise my surroundings, I’ve been aware that the car industry has been collapsing, and miraculously it still manages to continue its apparent demise.
Basically I’m saying that (in the UK at least), the papers seem to have performed a slight on hand on the public, by providing saturation coverage on this shenanigan – that basically amounts to civil servants in the petty cash office – at the expense of all other news. To be honest I myself wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that the whole thing was just a ploy by the government to distract the public from other things.
