{"id":1867,"date":"2008-11-12T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T09:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2008-11-12T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T09:54:27","slug":"ahhh-robert-kilroy-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/ahhh-robert-kilroy-silk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahhh… Robert Kilroy-Silk…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RobertRemember him? Silver-haired former daytime TV presenter (forced to quit<\/a> over racist comments) turned ranting political fanatic who was so loopy even UKIP didn’t want him – so bonkers, in fact, that even the anti-EU party he founded himself, Veritas, soon decided that it didn’t want him either.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, he’s still an MEP<\/a>. And despite being an elected official with a duty to serve his constituents, he’s also being shipped off to Australia to take part in mindless (and stupidly-punctuated) TV programme I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His constituents shouldn’t worry too much about losing his selfless public service in Brussels and Strasbourg, however. He’s hardly known for being a hard-working politician – and still appears to have made no speeches in the parliament since October 2005<\/a>… (Surely even he’s not that bad?) Though, to be fair, he has been asking an interminable series<\/a> of written questions, mostly on subjects that have nothing whatsoever to do with the East Midlands, and many of them repetitive rewordings of themselves.<\/p>\n

And hell, it’s not like he’s going to be out in the jungle getting tortured for our pleasure for long – the bookies<\/a> already have him pegged as the most unpopular contestant before it’s even started, so he’s likely to be the very first “celebrity” to be voted off the show.<\/p>\n

If only it were that easy to get rid of our politicians, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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