Lying Ministers

Cameron wants politicians to be respected according to the Daily Telegraph this morning yet he does not do his job by holding Minister to account. This from The Times this morning: In a written Commons statement last month, the Defence Secretary said that construction of the 65,000-tonne HMS Queen Elizabeth and her sister ship, HMS Prince of Wales, would be put back a further one or two years in line with the expected delivery of the Joint Strike Fighter, the combat aircraft designed to replace the Harrier. The fighter project has been running behind schedule.... Lockheed Martin, however, confirmed to The Times that it had been ready to provide the combat aircraft by 2014 but had been told by the Ministry of Defence to deliver in time for a 2017 initial operating capability. All expense gorging over-salaried non-democratic EU craven Members of Parliament carry their share of the blame for Britain entering this huge recession, shortly to be a slump, which officially happened today. I have already blogged today on the scandal regarding the expenses of the idle self-serving individuals who are the majority of those who sit upon Westminster's green benches, The Times blog has more on that, linked from here.