Another Product Recall Announcement

Following the news that Toyota is to recall several of its car models in order to fix their faults, the British electorate has today announced a recall for all 650 or so Members of Parliament, saying that over the years many of them have developed faults, some so serious that the MP should never be allowed to stand again. The electorate says that in some cases the MP should be scrapped altogether and sent to prison.

Over the last few months there have been many reports of MPs failing to put a brake on their expense claims, resulting in a massive pile up of excessive amounts of taxpayer’s money in those MP’s bank accounts.

There have also been reports of Labour MPs driving badly-though out and often unnecessary legislation through the Houses of Parliament causing massive damage to British society.

Other problems that have been reported include the way the Government has been steering Britain, causing it to crash into a recession and being unable to accelerate out of it due to the heavy weight of government debt, a punitive tax system and excessive legislation cutting out any attempt at growth through enterprise and innovation.

All the political parties involved in the recall have promised that the faulty MPs will be fixed in time for the election, with those unable to mend their ways replaced with new models that the parties promise will be totally reliable and serve the electorate much better than the older batch, most of which seem destined for the scrapheap.

However, one sceptical potential voter said:

I just hope we don’t get a botch-up job, the same old MP, dressed up a new suit and buffed-up grin, with some form of off-the-shelf sense of ethics bolted onto him at party headquarters that all falls apart at the sight of a open expense account, lobbyist’s brown envelope, or offer of a cabinet post.

The Labour party in particular is still churning out the same model of MP - built British Leyland-style - that falls apart almost as soon as they roll it out of the constituency office. That is simply not good enough in this day and age.