Alan Duncan and others we can do without

The fact that we have a prime minister that we didn't vote for and a significant number of ministers that nobody voted for does question just how democratic our parliamentary system is. Given the choice a few weeks ago the population would as one would have said "sack the lot of them", but of course we weren't given the choice to say that so the Right Honourable and the dishonourable just kept their heads down knowing that either an unusual summer weather pattern, test cricket or some other item would come along to take the public's mind off their expenses scams. All that is except Alan Duncan who complained that the poor MPs were being unjustly chastised by the public at large. There were many, like me that were thinking of voting for this Cameron chap next year but were uneasy about voting for anyone who would give Alan Duncan a job in a future Government. Well the same has obviously crossed the mind of young Dave as well since we now hear that AD is to be replaced. As yet we don't know by whom. We do, however, know who will be replacing Sir Terry of Woganshire when he steps down from his "job" on BBC2. He will, I understand, be replaced by Chris Evans. Sir Tel has been reported as saying that retiring from his breakfast show was the hardest thing he had ever done. Well, yes, it is difficult to give up a cushy little number like that. By cushy little number i am not referring to the reportedly £800K he is paid but the fact that he seems to be able to take a week off whenever he wants and has delivered the same show for the past 3 or 4 decades. Or at least it seems that way. many a day since he used to deliver the morning show on his tod, and a pretty neat little job he made of it. We all remember the motorway cones and the Northampton lighthouse, don't we, and he managed to talk to the listeners. But over recent years he has had to be accompanied by a crowd of gabbling hangers on. And i don't expect that Mr W was meeting the bill out these out of his fat wallet. the whole lot of them now spend most of the programme talking to each other, the listener just providing a few lines of the script. But as tired as the format had become, I do not think that i will be tuning in to listen to the new lad. Chris Evans is certainly one I can do without. Now, whenever BBC finds its self in trouble for swearing before nineoclock or something of that ilk, the spokesperson will come out with the excuse that of course the BBc must be at the cutting edge, challenging something or other, or some other lame excuse. Well moving Chris Evans onto the breakfast slot for BBC2 is as challenging as two weetabix. He will be loud, squeeky and rude and the music will be dire, and not straits. Just how much we are to pay him for spoiling our breakfast is not yet leaked but no doubt will be. Now if the BBC chiefs had asked me who should replace Wogan, which of course they wouldn't as I would have told them for nothing and left them with a huge surplus in their expenses budget, but if they had, I would have said Jamie lee grace. Now there's a presenter to put some life back into the beeb.