Spot on. But she will keep hanging on until the last.

When I fought the law , the law won.

Unfortunately this bunch of misfits have managed to introduce 3,000 extra offences in their twelve years in power - that's two for every day that Parliament has sat. Most have been the result of dog-whistle politics and pandering to newspaper editors who claim to represent middul ingerland.

The latest one "Independent Vetting & Barring" starts from the premise that evryone is a potential child molester. It wouldn't be too bad if it was called "Independent Vetting & Accepting", at least that way there would still be the presumption of innocence.

For any laws to be workable, they should be simple to understand and transparent to administer fairly, without prejudice or favor. Only that way can all realise that an action (or failure to act) can be unlawful and only then can everyone have no complaint if they're caught bang to rights

I think you've hit the nail on the head. Politicians, of all parties, are social misfits. It's hard to identify more than a handful (of the high profile ones certainly) that you can imagine having a pint with and a Joe-Public-type-conversation. They are so detached as well because of the rules that we have to follow that they don't. For years they have protected pipe-tobacco from rises in taxation that would be in line with other tobacco, they put alcohol duty up and have their own "duty-free" bar in the commons, they keep ram-raiding private pensions but have their own final salary pension that protects them, they have a "parachute payment" in case they're voted out but it's way above the statutory payment that we might receive for redundancy, they don't have to worry about stamp duty - particularly on a second home whereas we're not allowed similar assistance with second homes - they chose politics - I and many others place of work is where the customer is but there are no... perhaps I ought to stop there, this horse is getting a bit too high...I'm getting a nose bleed.