Just Minging

Where do you go when you want to really know how opinion's shaping up in the lunatic asylum on the ground? Why the BBC Have Your Say site of course, which is currently asking readers what they think about Ming's resignation.

He is an intelligent and experienced man. He also tried his best to be honest despite the pressure to decieve the public which is accepted as a necessity. I do not think it has to be a necessity and nobody with integrity wants to have to spin a ficitious myth and play this puppet game of seeming a trustworthy benfactor of the soul of a nation. Ming actually did it reasonably well, which i think is because he is far more responsible, honest, intelligent, experienced and capable than the other two. Matt Knights

That's right, Matt. Members of Parliament only go into politics so they can spend their days cattle prodding the electorate, setting fire to important documents, shagging their research assistants, and laughing at the plight of the working classes. In fact, Rule 17(a) of the Secret MPs' Code says, "you must at all times deceive the public and callously knife anybody in possession of responsibility, honesty, and intelligence." It's because politicians are born with the Evil Gene. Fact.