Today's card is the Knight of Pentacles, which suggests to me that the situation is turning from a list of scandals in the direction of more solid and concrete action, though still both parties have not got much control over what they can do and what they do do.
All kinds of bandwagons are trying to hitch a ride here, with the PR (proportional representation) lobby in full swing, despite the fact that this is not votes MPs have been swindling from us (ok, that's for later, says Owlperson mysteriously) but money. I suspect if the House of Commons was elected by AV+ (don't ask, it's a long story) then Nick and Ann Winterton, Shahid Malik, Julie Kirkbride, Andrew Mackay, and all the rest of the duck-fanciers, moat-dredgers and capital-gains-tax-evaders (not so colourful that one, is it?! hmmmm...) would still have had their hands in the till. And they'd still be next in line for Madame Guillotine, aka the next election.
In further news - still dripping out - Nicholas and Ann Winterton will stand down at the next election from their respective constituencies. Not surprisingly, they had their hands in the till. But they, like Ian McCartney (Owlperson is saddened by his exit, stage left, but still...all must be judged the same), are claiming health reasons and not due to scandal, presumably jumping before they were pushed.
I look forward to reporting more of these sudden decisions on the state of health (and not, say, wealth), perhaps sooner or later from Dorries and Kirkbride, and a couple of Labour MPs too to even things up a bit.
