Dovetailing nicely with a recent comment detailing how our enemies are now beginning to acknowledge the Party as a credible political force, I offer you a podcast from Prospect Magazine. It doesn't last long but it is most relevant and worth a listen.
My Play Radio podcast from last night would be complimenting this, but it has not been converted yet. For those listening there was once again considerable audio problems, but it got going again after about 12 minutes. In fact there seemed to be sound issues with everyone last night which I put down to atmospheric conditions or the fact that Skype is inherently unstable.
Lots of coverage regarding Harry Cohen MP today. Here's an example from SKY News:
Labour MP Harry Cohen, who claimed over £100,000 for his second home, is standing down at the next election.
Harry Cohen is one of a number of MPs standing down after their claims were exposed
Mr Cohen, whose Leyton and Wanstead constituency is just nine miles from Westminster, is under investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner over his claims.
John Lyon is looking into an allegation that the MP may have defrauded the taxpayer by nominating a property in Colchester, Essex, as his main home, allowing him to claim the public cash to run a house in his constituency, 70 miles away in east London.
Mr Cohen said the expenses row had been a "major influence" on his decision.
"I have been repeatedly vilified in the media with false allegations and am still awaiting my name to be cleared both by the Press Complaints Commission and the Commissioner for Parliamentary Standards after a complaint was lodged against me by a BNP member," he said.
This has nothing directly to do with the BNP but I am going to include it on this blog in any case. Having seen the story and accompanying picture, I have nothing but total admiration and respect for plucky 72-year-old Frank Corti. If he is not already a member, I would be more than happy to pay for his gold membership subscription myself.
Today I was gifted the best view of a stoat in my life. Ambling up the path towards me no more than 10 feet a way it stopped and looked directly at me for about a minute before going about its business. I don't often see these creatures but strangely enough I spotted one dashing across the road early last Friday morning. Linnets, bullfinches and meadow pipits made up the rest of my observational haul this sweltering afternoon.
Before I sign off here's a stoat-related video from YouTube that I have just discovered. This video is not my doing of course but it set me thinking as to whether or not a cat would take a stoat. We took in a small, totally psychotic cat once that would quite literally take on anything from bats to dobermans, but very sadly he is not with us now, much is the pity. Does anyone have any unusual feline tales along such lines?
