ELECTIONS 2nd - 14th October

Glen from Gonville

A week to go, so ……………

While suturing up a cut on the hand of a 75 year old farmer, whose hand had been caught in the gate while working his cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation.

Eventually they got around to politics and how some MPs where so useless.
The old farmer said, "Well, ya know, they are just Post Tortoises."

Now not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked, “What's a ‘Post Tortoise’?"
The farmer explained, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a Tortoise balanced on top, that's a post Tortoise."

The old farmer saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he elaborated. "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he sure as hell isn't goin' anywhere, and you just wonder what kind of dumb clodhead put him there in the first place."
[now that's the best definition I've heard in a long while]

*****
"The budget should be balanced,
the Treasury should be refilled,
public debt should be reduced,
the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled,
and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
- Cicero, 55 BC
[sound familiar?]