Parliament is a corpse

so the police allegedly assault Ian Tomlinson, who subsequently dies of a heart attack. He must have had a post mortem which identified a cause of sudden death. We have seen him pushed to the ground, hit by at least one police truncheon, did none of these leave any bruises. Did the pathologist perform a proper autopsy or was he just working class, caught up in a melee, and an insignificant person. Sir Ian Blair earlier in the week has hinted that the police were not institutionally racist with the death of Stephen Lawrence, he more or less says that is how we treated all people like him, without colour prejudice, he was working class.

We now 'celebrate' the return of our heroes from Iraq and Afghanistan. Now I have not forgotten the footage, shot by the soldiers themselves, of young Iraqi boys being beaten by soldiers in the compound, and the shouts the laughter. Have some of these soldiers now joined the police where they do not understand their responsibilities. Have we opened Pandorras box, people have been beaten up by our soldiers in Iraq, people have died at the hands of our soldiers, one man pleaded guilty and has served a jail term, one man, that's all.

I wonder if this is the week when the wheels finally come off this government. It really is time for an election, I have no confidence in this parliament, it is time they went, all of them. Expenses is nothing to do with it now, it just sinks. This government is a corpse, a stinking rotting, illegitimate corpse, lacking any dignity.