Posted 2:56 PM by Paul
The 6th Formers Have Taken Over the Asylum

Watching the grand standing and the cheap party jibes in the final debate on the invasion of Iraq reminded me that so many politicians are no more than super annuated 6th Form debating champions.

Iraqi families are about to be blown to dust. Young boys from Darlington will perish in the desert crying out for their mother - and what is the UK Foreign Secretary doing? Making cheap jibes about the Liberal Democrat member for Chipping Sodbury. My head is spinning. I feel nauseous. The triviality and vanity of much of the House of Commons is simply grotesque.

But I don't have an answer for what might replace this souless chirade of 650 people from a small European nation struggling to come to terms with the fact that they don't really count that much anymore.