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EDM 1088 - IF YOUR MP HASN'T SIGNED, GIVE THEM SOME CAREERS ADVICE

Matthew Cuffe | 19.02.2006 15:57

Time for change. We have been swindled. Our Parliament is not representing us. We must use non-violent methods to bring reform. Find your GREAT REFORM ACTS in 2006. Start with EDM 1088 today. If your MP hasn't signed it, give them the pen.

SHOW THEM THAT THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SHOCK AND AWE SWORD. AN MP IS NOT A CELEBRITY. THE ERA OF BECKS AND BLAIR AS ENGLAND CAPTAINS ARE OVER. SHOW THEM WHERE TO WRITE THEIR SIGNATURE.

www.writetothem.com


EDM 1088 is now signed by 154 MPs.

 http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMD...437&SESSION=875

A sticking-plaster for heart disease isn't much use, and EDMs rarely get very far. However, this one might just be the catalyst that led to that golden taxi ride from Downing Street to the High Court of 2006.

Cannabis was used in Chinese medicine thousands of years ago. Check this one out - Shen Nung's pharmacopoeia. A real doctor, that one. Sure, too much pot and your brain turns into a sea cucumber. But the odd one here or there? Is that as bad as what Fred West was up to? Or what Toblerone was up to when he supped at the Faust-Bush war table?

Maybe Antoni-OverBlown might like to have a gentle, non-violent spliff in that taxi. Might chill him out for what is going to be a rather greenhouse effect grilling in the High Court. High in the High Court - think of the Sun headlines. While we're there, why not put Rupe in the dock? Who killed the Labour Party after, all? It was the Sun whodunnit. Allegedly, of course.

Imagine it. Imagine if Blair, the courageous and dashing pioneer of the Glorious New Label Middle Way, was the first MP to spliff up that TeeJay was questioning about. The next day we could all legally not beat anyone up at closing-time. It would be total social anarchy. Reefer madness. William Randolph Hearst and the suffocation of the hemp industry to feed his profits.

The whole lot of his rebel insurgent clone army need it. A spliff, a cup of rooibosch tea, a good book, a kiss from a loved one - and the idea of forcing us all to pay £93 to put our identities on a biometric card might suddenly seem to them the joke that it is to us.

Unless they're already hitting the bongs and have gone all jam-bongoed and so paranoid they really believe we're going to be fighting a 50 year war with Bush's shock and awe Luftwaffe. Why not get some new enemies and double it - New 100 Years War, anyone? That would be a popular gig. I'm in the recruiting office like it's August 1914 all over again.

Anyway. If your MP isn't one of the shining 154, hunt them down like Otis Ferry and badger bait them till their name is on that bit of paper. Non-violently, of course. Mine's signed up so I don't have to get the samurai swords of truth (my words - the pen is mightier than the sword, the mouse is mightier than the nulcear warhead) out.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1182458.stm

Violence against MPs just isn't cricket. It's a bit rich. Mind you, so are they. And they're not playing by the rules or by the Corinthian spirit either - these so-called public servants who seek to win at all costs. For those that aren't listening to us, violent words to complement non-violent actions are perfectly acceptable and an important element in a democracy that isn't working. So is careers advice. The Guardian has a good jobs section, and MPs who think that their first loyalty is to this bully in Number Ten rather than to the needs of their constituents might like to consider fresh employment.

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/334012.html

I hear from the daily bulletins of the Ministry of Public Enlightement that our glorious New Labour economy is doing really really well these days, so I'm sure the Cyril Snelgroves currently polluting the pews of the House of Commons with their Blair babe and Blair Ben Bradshaw boy bottoms will find it very easy to locate the kind of stimulating, fulfilling and well-paid work where our real talents are respected and developed that we are all fortunate enough to have to trudge along to tomorrow morning at nine a.m.

This Parliament? It's a Rump. The New Labour clones need to have their rumps swept out of it.

Politics is a VOCATION not a CELEBRITY PANTOMIME. We didn't call you to be MPs, after all.

Media sales is pretty hot this time of year, and there's always cleaning the toilets in the House of Commons for the minimum wage.

Oh, sorry, they're all on strike, aren't they?

GENERAL STRIKE IS EIGHTY YEARS OLD ON MAY 1ST 2006. THE MEN AND WOMEN OF 1926 ARE PRETTY CROSS WITH THIS BUNCH OF THIEVES OPERATING UNDER THE NAME "LABOUR". IN FACT, THE WHOLE LABOUR MOVEMENT OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES IS TURNING IN ITS GRAVES. A NEW MOVEMENT IS BEING BORN AND IS LEAPING FROM ITS CRADLES.

ANY MP WHOSE NAME IS NOT ON THAT EDM 1088 PAPER DOES NOT DESERVE THE MASSIVE WAGE THEY ARE PAID OUT OF OUR TAXATION. THE WAR WAS ILLEGAL. IT WAS IMMORAL. IT IS A DAILY WASTE OF OUR MONEY.

ONCE MPs WERE NOT EVEN PAID AT ALL.

LEADING A COUNTRY IS PUBLIC SERVICE. THINK SLAVE, NOT MASTER, HERR BLAIR.

 http://blairwitch.typepad.com
 http://www.myspace.com/blairwitchimpeachment

The land of the white armband -  http://www.armsagainstwar.info
 http://www.pledgebank.com/protest
 http://www.pledgebank.com/giantimpeach

R.I.P. NEW LABOUR
1997-2006

Matthew Cuffe

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