Mischief in the Shires?
By Max Musson: My interest was sparked this week when I opened a copy of my local free newspaper, the Northants Herald & Post to find an almost full-page article with a headline declaring “Refugees Welcome”, the suggestion being that the current wave of economic migrants invading Europe are welcomed by the majority of the citizens of Northampton. In fact the story underlying this article is of a married couple, James and Tracy Green, who stated…
The Corruption & Debasement of our Electoral System
By Max Musson: Yesterday I wrote about some of the shortcomings of our political system here in the UK and in doing so, I referred to “the inadequacies of our electoral system, … the mendacity of our media moguls and the corruption of our politicians”, and today I would like to focus attention on the ‘inadequacies’, or perhaps I should have said the ‘iniquities’ of our electoral system. Political pundits will often blame anomalies within…