Bob Russell is the MP for Colchester and he is today’s star turn. Bob doesn’t much like those irritating ring tones on mobile phones. Fair point, they piss me off too. Indeed, they are an irritant in the modern world. However, Bob gets today’s fuckwit award because he wants to get parliament involved in the matter:
An MP is urging action over irritating mobile phone ring tones and wants more consideration of other people.
Bob Russell, MP for Colchester, has tabled a House of Commons motion in a bid to apply pressure to mobile phone firms to introduce a “code of conduct”.
Two things immediately sprung to my mind when I saw this being discussed on the BBC breakfast programme… Firstly; why are we even discussing this? I mean, like it’s news or something? And, secondly, have MPs nothing better to do with their time than discuss irritating ring tones? Ring tones may be irritating, but they pale into insignificance when compared to the trite, banal, gaseous emissions emanating from Westminster palace…
Then, of course, the sting in the tail:
Mr Russell hopes his actions in the House of Commons will act as a spur for subsequent action by ministers and phone companies.
While Mr Russell sounds sooooooo reasonable as he talks of the phone companies introducing a code of conduct, what lies at the bottom of it is this; force. How else will such a thing come about? Why else involve the poltroons of parliament?
And you thought that the Lib Dems were liberal….
What a cretin.
The Liberal Democrats are not liberal in any true sense of the word. They claim to be liberal (opposing the ID cards scheme – which – to their credit, I am grateful for) and then they ruin it by being authoritarian (Richmond council’s enviromental fascism).
Can’t say I have much rime for the Liberal Democrats these days. They’re a joke. Now, if they came back to the old-style liberalism of the Liberal Party, I might have more time for them.