HP Sauce

The fortnightly satircial magazine - Private Eye - has a regular column entitled 'HP Sauce' which often succeeds in highlighting the hypocritical behaviour of certain politicians in the Houses of Parliament.

Here's an piece from the latest edition of Private Eye.

"HP Sauce"

"'Labour MP Michael Meacher wrote a furious post on his blog about Andrew Mitchell's "fucking pleb" outburst at the gates of 10 Downing Street.

As he said, "the language was a wide-open revelation of the inner attitudes, normally kept firmly padlocked away until once ensconced in power those born to rule can mete it out to the serfs physically, financially and power-wise...." 

Mitchell's repeated demand 'Let me through, I'm the chief whip' adds another dimension. Ministers can do what the hell they like, it doesn't matter what the rules say. What disgraceful behaviour!

Then again Meacher seems to have suffered a slight lapse of memory. As a minister at the 1998 Labour party conference, he had a furious row with a policeman and nearly got himself arrested, all because he was trying to get into the conference hotel without a security pass.

As Meacher explained at the time, "I didn't realise the Stakis (hotel) had become a fortress and I ended up having a vigorous exchange of views with a policeman at the front."

Sadly he didn't see fit to mention this in his post about Mitchell's sense of entitlement."

What a complete plonker.