Strayman

I love porridge. Who doesn’t? I don’t think there is a better breakfast on a cold winters morning. It turns out that my MP, Richard Bacon loves it too. He loves it so much that he started talking about it in Parliament yesterday. So thoughtful is this man, that he wants to make sure that our beloved criminals get the chance to enjoy the golden syrup topped food for breakfast every day.

Heres what he had to say about it:

On prison behavior and diet, did the hon. Gentleman notice in one of the appendices of the report the analysis of the number of prisons in the United Kingdom where porridge is available to prisoners?

It became obvious that porridge is not available in a significant number of prisons despite the fact that it is well known not only to reduce cholesterol but to have various other life-giving properties, including the ability to help the body to produce serotonin, which lifts the spirits and reduces the appetite.

Does he agree that all prisoners in the United Kingdom should have daily access, if they wish, to porridge?

Bravo, Mr Bacon! What could be more important in the world today than the good nutrition of criminals? Well I can think of a few things and I am sure he can as well. The funny thing is that he hasn’t said anything in Parliament about any of those things for a long time. 6 weeks ago he said something about automatic half-barrier crossings on train tracks. 2 weeks before that he talked about prison capacity. So in the last 8 weeks he hasn’t said anything of any worth at all.

He has been voting however. In that same time frame he has voted for the new Astute class nuclear submarines, two Future Aircraft Carriers, which will be the largest ships ever to serve with the Royal Navy and against The Equality Act on Sexual Orientation. In the last 2 years he has only Rebelled 3 times and 2 of them were on the lords reform bill. He also voted for the trident renewal.

I have emailed him asking why he voted for it when there where are 2 independent white papers (the 1998 Strategic Defense Review and the 2003 Delivering Security in a Changing World paper) that state there is no need for the UK to have nuclear weapons. So far I haven’t got a reply. I guess he is too busy talking about porridge to worry about silly thing like making bombs that can whip out whole cities.