things that annoy the fook out of you

There is nothing anyway dodgy about any British government politician of the past thirty years............

While I am in England now I was certainly more fascinated by English politics even when I was younger, possibly because I lived in a constituency at home where the debate was whether there was going to be 2 FG and 1 FF or vice-versa and most politicians, bar a handful of lads up the country and the odd local councillor, seemed to be made in a machine somewhere in the Midlands. A bit like how jockeys are, they all looked the same, sounded the same, did the same thing and only showed up every few years apart from showing their face at a funeral. To a large extent it is still the same, although there was a massive change in 2011 when a fella from Labour won a seat.

Unfortunately they have kind of copied this in England, although instead of being gombeens called Michael and Pat these lads are carved out in Oxford and Cambridge, have occasionally more exotic names like Nigel and Tristan but are still, by and large, in it for the good of their wallets. The main difference here being one of the two parties is inherently evil but as much better at marketing, a bit like the Catholic church at home in the old days.

I also feel it downplays the seriousness of things like coeliac disease.