Parmimentary visuals

Lets talk aesthetics…

Some things look good, some things look bad…

And I imagine that when trying to pass policy in the notoriously boring house of commons, aesthetics play a large role in an MP’s decision on which way to vote (if they ever actually wake from that perpetual slumber most seem to be engaged in while running the country…) if something looks nice and smart, what the heck it must be better then that other thing. For instance you will notice that Tony Blair looked particularly dapper the day they voted to go to war, and Charles Kennedy (opposing)… well…  looked rather to much like Charles Kennedy….

This would explain Nick Clegg (my friend and yours for a price) has chosen to even out his front and back benches. So now he has one of each of practically equal length (29 and 34). Before they just looked like shoddy miss-fits with their scruffy backbenchers all over the place, no-wonder Ming was thought of as bumbling old fool instead of a cunning political strategist, something that Cameron hasn’t had to deal with either.

Although it does raise questions to whether he’ll kill of the offending 5 backbenchers to create complete synergy? If he really wants to challenge the perfectly arranged Cameron he’ll have to do something   Why he didn’t just go for 31 and 31 and bludgeon the remaining I don’t know… perhaps he can’t count… *shrug*

Personally I would go for a square of MPs. If only he had 5 more Clegg could arrange them in 8 rows of 8. But that would be asking a little too much of our 3rd party me thinks…

Organ Donation…

Now I’m not a raving Tory or Labour stooge, I like to tread the independent line and I just believe democracy is about asking questions, and this is one that came to me…

 I wish that everyone would donate organs when they felt they perhaps didn’t need them, and the government is coming up with practical ideas to make this a reality which all in all is a good thing.
 
Just a point – This wired, oversentimental creature called the family is going to have veto rights on whether on anything can be harvested.
 
So surely there isn’t going to be that much of a change. Currently many who wish to donate and are in a state to do so (i.e. dead) can’t because their families feel it would be far better for his/her pancreas to be used in fertilising a small patch of land, than obeying the deceaseds’ wishes.
 
This I find confusing, the government wishes to bring in this big sweeping and generally uncontroversial reform, but with a caveat to make it a little pointless. Is this going to be a signal of things to come? How will they change anything?