Peruvian MP shoots dog...

According to the BBC, a Peruvian MP, Miro Ruiz, has been reported to Congress after gunning down his neighbour's dog after it came on to his lawn and 'harassed his ducks'. Naturally, this has outraged his neighbour and animal rights campaigners, despite the pleas of the defendant saying that he 'loves small animals'. Here at Westmonster, though, we're more concerned with what it says about man's universal condition, especially the mindset of the lowly MP.

Whilst English politicians don't seem to be as volatile as their Peruvian counterpart, they do seem to act more than a little above their stations: accepting money here and there, getting their buddies elected, bickering, punching each other, writing books with 'startling revelations'. And that's just the stuff that we know about.

What is it about MPs that makes them so superior? Aren't they theoretically supposed to be working for everybody else? Sure, we know that whole idea is just a bunch of romantic bullshit that somebody invented to get people to listen to them, but it truly does seem that there is a universal epidemic taking place in which a select bunch of idiots are fucking things up for everybody else.

Jorge del Castillo, a Peruvian cabinet minister, said the alleged killing demonstrated "psychological weakness" and "hurts the country". Perhaps, here in the UK, we can take comfort in knowing that we're not alone...