“Now is the time to start lobbying your MP and inviting him or her to pick up your children after school,” is the opening line of a press release from GEM Motoring Assist (formerly the Guild of Experienced Motorists).
Switching to a completely separate news story, I note that a senior aide to MPs at the House of Commons was recently jailed for having child porn on his computer.
Jumping back to the first story, however, GEM Motoring Assist suggests that your MP should be asked to pick up your kids from school in November, when the “darker, murky afternoons have set in”. This will help your MP to realise that putting the clocks back each autumn is “endangering life and limb of our younger population.” GEM doesn’t, however, see any risks in letting a stranger pick up your children from school on a dark, murky afternoon.
It goes without saying that all MPs are entirely good, honest people on account of their profession. They’re politicians, after all, and so naturally we trust each and every one of them. Even the recently jailed child pornographer was said to be “a highly respected member of the civil staff who was implicitly trusted by colleagues and MPs.” So that’s all right then.
A Dark and Murky topic indeed!
Politicians are a very strange breed , and GEM would appear to have lost the plot entirely… The only circumstances under which I would allow the local MP to pick up my children from school would be under the proviso that either I, my wife, or the family Jack Russell ride shotgun!!
AlfaMartini | 27 Sep 07 - 17:14