As a part-time bodhisattva (slightly lapsed), I've had to cut down on the blogging... I've realised that the karmic consequence of banging on about the awfulness of Life in General is an almost permanent sense of irritability. It's not even as if it gets results - unlike the mighty Guido. Our MP is the ancient and redoubtable Sir Peter Tapsell, and unseating him - or even suggesting that he might change his long-held views on anything - is as unthinkable as camels on Skegness beach. Sitting in the gentle Lincolnshire sunshine, pecking at a bowl of cockles and a beer, it's as cosy and safe as the Fifties ever were. So why spoil the pleasures of a vaguely contented life in the timeless Fens, where we're untroubled by the nastiness of the Outside World unless we read the papers.
Worse though, for those likely to be actually featuring in them. Just imagine what it would be like for a decent respectable woman from, say, Redditch, to spread marmalade on her morning toast, pour herself and hubby a coffee, settle down with the Sunday Times, and see herself depicted as viciously as above. It would make most reasonable women want to quit public life. Especially if they suspected it might be cruel but accurate.
Karma... none of us can avoid it. The neat thing about Zen Buddhism is that there aren't a lot of hard and fast rules to learn... Buddha said that he doesn't make the Laws of Nature - just reveals them. As one of his predecessors pointed out, "We are what our deep, driving desire is. As our deep, driving desire is, so is our will. As our will is, so is our deed. As our deed is, so is our destiny." Master that and off you go - nirvana awaits without the need for further formality.
Jacqui has no-one to blame but herself... £23K actually isn't all that generous an allowance for keeping a place in London for a year - but she had to go and try to enrich herself with it, the fool. So.... karma got her by the neck. It's just the way things are that's all... "As you sow, so shall you reap. With whatever measure you mete out to others, with the same measure it shall be meted out to you", as Jesus put it. Jacqui Exposed, as Scarfe does.
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9 comments:
"Poor Jacqui!" I once wrote: "Nor does she have to assume the absurd and humiliating pose of bending over to exercise her sphincter."
How wrong I was.....and - so far as a bit of rough sex is concerned, especially anal -I'm sure the experience couldn't have been more unpleasant...
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Urgh, I can't bear to think of it. I prefer to think that he's drawn her looking for a lost earring. Anything but sex with that woman!
"Anything but sex with that woman!"What do I know, but that's probably what her husband thought every time he...ooops....downloaded an adult video . ..
Haha, you're probably right. And I should think in that marriage.. the feeling is mutual.
Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell, eh? Still ensconced? Good grief, he's been MP round there for over 40 years! Although I like a bit of certainty in life, there are some certainties I'd happily forego.
It was Sir John Maitland before him and before that the deluge.
For a High Tory, Sir Pete is surprisingly anti-war - a quirk he can afford thanks to his longevity and invincibility, no doubt. Haven't heard he's giving up his seat, yet... may take another deluge to unhorse him.
Granted, he's sometimes on the side of the angels. He's sound on Afghanistan. He voted to go into Iraq, then voted for the inquiry. (That's not inconsistent - people feel they were misled.) He's against ID cards, smoking ban, and top-up fees. He's a Keynesian. But he's pro-Trident, pro 90 day detention, Eurosceptic, anti-gay rights and apathetic on climate change. He's old-fashioned, in other words, which is hardly surprising. To be fair, he is probably more active than many MPs half his age. And doubtless he suits the majority of his constituents or they'd vote for someone else.
Interesting that his opposition to war in Afghanistan is founded on a seemingly informed view that it can't and won't achieve the stated objectives, rather than any principled stand against war itself. Makes you wonder....
As you say, the rest of his positions are well in tune with these 'ere parts.
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