It's been a long held belief of mine that Labour supporters do not use the toilet.
Now maybe you have to be a man to understand this (and is also why non-socialist men make better drivers in some ways - like not hogging lanes- I think), but do correct me if I'm wrong.
From an early age, going into public(or in other buildings) toilets there is a unwritten code to learn and follow - things like:
Don't stand next to someone else at the urinal, don't exit from a cubicle if there is someone at the urinals etc. etc.
Yes, you could try to write them out into commandments, but all toilets are different or will be in a different state, or have different
people in and so require adaption for each occourance. Often it may be OK to break the "rules" for the convenience of others - eg. In an
interval and there's a queue.
It seems that the Labour government can't understand unwritten rules and everything has to be legislated for, even if this means that
there are far too many bad laws that only cover specific cases and make life awkward in every other case - then don't even solve any
problem there might be. They then think that anything within this legislation is then perfectly OK and anything not is very wrong.
With this expenses thing they can only see "within the rules" or not, even if it seems fraudulent or totally against the spirit of the
place. Sure it's legal to stand right next to a really big guy at the urinals and fart - try telling him that it was "within the rules".
It also always seems to be labour councils that close down public toilets - it took Boris to come into power in london to produce a toilet
map of the tube and encourage pubs and shops to open theirs up.
Which begs the question, why did Prescott claim for 2 toilet seats in a year?
16:34 11/05/2009