I hate to point this out, but the Pope is already complicit in covering up systematic child abuse by the Catholic church through several decades.  That this hasn’t gotten rid of him means nothing will.  The Pope could go on TV tomorrow mainlining coke while punching pregnant mothers and it wouldn’t make a difference.  I mean, we now have abundant evidence the Pope is in charge of what is, essentially, the largest and most powerful child abuse ring in the world, and apparently that’s all OK, at least as far as the Vatican and various legal authorities in strongly Catholic are concerned.

As I’ve remarked, this has made me consider a career in being a Catholic priest.  Why, I’ll be able to rob banks and murder people who annoy me all day long, because apparently the law and basic morality don’t apply to God’s favourite child molestation ring.

On the other hand, this bout of implicit honesty is refreshing.  Now it is almost impossible for anyone, except party hacks like Martin Kettle, naturally, to argue about the wide gulf of differences that seperate our two major parties from each other. You have the vaugely authoritarian state capitalists who don’t want to cut national insurance, and the vaugely authoritarian state capitalists who do.  Change!

On the whole, there are worse ways to spend the next four weeks, I guess.  At least now, if I’m bored, I can go rile some easily upset Labour or Tory supporters ie; the vast majority of them.

Also, an election is on, so it is my moral duty to find out who is taking it seriously, and endlessly mock them.

However watching Labour try and score cheap points off his idiocy is pretty nauseating.  I mean, yes, Grayling seems content to make excuses for bigotry, but our government ships homosexuals back off to Iran, where they can be executed.

So, you know, on the balance of things, our government isn’t exactly in a position to criticize.

Unfortunately, the point that has escaped everyone’s notice is that we’re not actually having a recovery, we’re just moving out of the first dip of a much larger depression.  Fun times for all!  Sure, Labour and the Tories have “different” policies, but as far as I can tell, it’s the difference between chomping down on cyanide or arsenic.  You’re going to die anyway, the question is only how quickly it will happen.  Which policy corresponds to which poison, I will leave up to the reader to decide, as a personal exercise.

I can only assume this is some strange definition of the word “change” that only occurs in politics, since every other definition of the word would seem to clash with voting someone into their fourth term in public office.