Have I got AV for you?

Stephen Pollard, political Editor of the Daily Express is correct wheh he asserts that the three main political parties want to keep us in Europe, despite the electorate might wishes, and that they show only contempt for us.
But how does he jump to the conclusion that this applies only to the “Yes to AV” supporters.
On “Have I got News for You”, Marcus Brigstoke, rightly pointed out that it was the Anti- brigades leaflets which seemed to be telling him that we were too thick to understand AV and that we poor unfortunate thicko’s should stick to the “first past the post” system.
“Have I got News for You” was also interesting for Ian Hislop’s contribution. A man of intellect and probity, it was not nice to see him striving to score a point against AV by claiming that the vote on AV was a First Past The Post vote. With only a 50/50 choice, making it an AV vote would have been stretching the Language a bit: First preference “yes”, second preference “no”.
I assume that Ian Hislop, being an ex-public schoolboy and, ipso facto, Tory voter, is against AV, because it might detract from Tory chances of Keeping the Elite in Power.
It’s a pity that he was seated with a Tory Air-head, MP, whose anti-AV comments were so inane that he found himself attacking her statements, much to his own embarassment.

Yes, Prime Minister and Wikileaks

I have enjoyed the recent  re-run of the “No, Minister”, “Yes, Prime Minister” series, on UK Gold.

 It reflects so much of our present discomforts, as has Lady Thatcher’s papers have done.

The constant duplicity, such as that portrayed in the episode on diplomatic relations over the “St. George islands”, the pro-Arab Foreign Office, The Gung-Ho U.S. foreign Policy, in respect of our special relationship, and The Prime Minister having to be briefed by The Israeli Ambassador, all make the stuff coming out of Wiki-Leaks seem so trivial and by comparison.

The Wikileaks stuff seems even tamer, when viewing “Have I got News for you” , when Ian Hislop tries to prod guests into making the same sort of insider knowledge public.

It seems obvious that most of these “Confidential” secrets are well known to those in Government circles and its environs. Why it should upset the CIA so much is a puzzle. I can only assume that it’s a case of “I know that you know but it’s OK, so long as neither of us admits it.”. All the while it’s actually gossip that most of the Public take as much notice of as a dog turd on the pavement. We’d rather it wasn’t there but would be surprised if it wasn’t, given the sort of people who might be responsible for it having been left there.