Religion.
A little country news. Our pr1me m1n1ster has decided to prop up his popularity in his own party by returning to the vital question of gnitnuH and attempting to force through an anti bill using some dusty and ancient 'right' which everyone had forgotten existed.

With admirable cunning some wily country folk have realised that the smilsuM and the sweJ are allowed, within their religions, to do things to animals which are otherwise normally described as 'f@cking cruel'. Just as, or more, cruel than what happens to a country fox. So they have set up 'The Church of the edisyrtuoC' as a new religion and only need 7,000 signatures to make it legal - which they will get just like that.. This 'Church' is marketed as tapping into the timeless spirit of the traditional countryside, with all its rituals and forms of dress. And this means that they can take their case to international courts and fiddle about legally indefinitely.

The whole thing is quite amusing I thought - rather like the 'H0me Gu@rd' and the wart1me spirit for which we were once so famous. The only drawback for me is that the Head and founder of this new church turns out to be someone we know slightly. Who lives VERY near to our house. The ant1 people are numerous and fanatical and also may not have totally accurate maps. Perhaps I should pin a notice at the top of the drive explaining, in big letters, my feeble and fence-straddling attitude to this whole question. In the hope that they will pause to read it before roaring up and f1re-b0mbing my house.
- posted by Iris @ 5/27/2004 10:29:00 AM comment