Continuing story. How we have become a banana republic

so now we have a senior police officer doing an inquiry into a police inquiry into an MP.

Surely the Home Secretary is now going back on what she said only on Sunday. She should not be involved in this, so much for principles.

As for the government surely we will now be told, don't worry we are having an inquiry, so we must not prejudge the inquiry.

This is getting seriously bizarre. It is no wonder that the pound continues to fall. Can nobody imagine how this looks to foreign investors. We have a country going hugely into debt, which is fighting what many regard as illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and where now we have the police investigating an MP and raiding parliament.

Then there is a Prime Minister who cannot be found, as usual, when the going gets tough. Mind you he has got form. In the event of him being found he will probably say that everything is about the economy and that is what the government is fighting for, blah, blah. Oh, and you really won't expect me to comment on an on-going police inquiry.

Finally, we have an unelected member of the government, Lord Mandelson, apparently writing the Queens speech, you really can't make it up.

What with the electoral fraud, which has previously been revealed, that we have had nothing on cash-for-honours, and that even the Prime Minister has had no votes from any English for him, can you wonder why many consider this country a banana republic.