Bah! India!

Dear Congressman,

While you are throwing rocks at those liberals ruining the United States of America, I found an interesting story about your English counterparts, the Conservative Party. (They are also know as the Tories, but that is a story for another day.) That bastion of liberal journalism, the New York Times, wrote a front page piece today on an English conservative party member named Sir Nicholas Winterton, who since 1971 has been the Member of Parliament representing the town of Macclesfield, a mid-size town about 25 miles south of Manchester.

We are a little slow on the uptake here in the USA on other county's political systems, but with everything that is going on with the big health care fight and all, I can understand why the Times reporters did not break this one any sooner.

It appears that the Conservative party in the UK is leading in the polls for the next general election, which the Labour Party will be required to call some time in the next year or so. The Conservatives have a reputation in the UK of being stodgy, elitist, and out of touch with the average British resident. Their leader, David Cameron, has worked diligently to reverse this stereotype and portray his party in a new light, one that cares for the needs of the voting public and will champion their cause in the House of Commons.

Except for Sir Nicholas....

Quoted from Wikipedia: "On 18 February 2010 during a BBC Radio 5 Live interview he defended MPs travelling first class by saying that people who traveled in standard class on trains were a "totally different type of people."


As Seth and Amy would say.... "Really, Sir Nicholas, really?"

And what type of people would that be? Would that be say...hmmm... the voting public? It appears Sir Nicholas wants to distant himself from the serfs and peasants that compose the majority of his constituency and hid among the numerous earls, barons, dukes, marquises, and occasional OBE that happens to be part of his social circle. It must be ssssooooooo hard to have to listen to their sniveling constant whining about living conditions and poor schools and crime rates and busy roads and this and than and so on and so on.... What a perfect world it would be if we could go back to the days of the early realm, where these ill-bred types were kept in their place and a gentlemen could go about a gentleman's business, spending time at the local men's only society sipping port, smoking the finest cigars, and discussing (and solving) the biggest world problems of the day before dinner.

So to you Sir Nicholas, we send our heart-felt sincerest regrets that the world has moved on and left you standing at the train station because there was not a first class car available in which for you to ride...

Jolly bad show, what!

And to Mr. Cameron... good luck old stick, you are going to need it with this baggage.