All On His Owensome

Just when British independence from the Strasbrussels yoke was going so well, at least one crusader for taking back control has suffered further martyrdom at the hands of the beastly Euro-wogs. Of course the European Court of Human Rights has nothing to do with the EU, but Owen Paterson is far too much the intellectual firebucket to bother himself with such quibbles. Predictably, the ECHR has thrown out his superbly hypocritical appeal against the Parliamentary report that found his lobbying to exceed even the standards tolerated by the House of Expenses Claimants; and this despite extensive whining about not being able to get into any good coronations and having to live as a pensioner and a parasite rather than as a bumbling little crook. It is to be hoped that Team Starmer's removal of the Winter Fuel Payment will not unduly improve matters.