Ah this ever-so-democratic Labour government, which has gone to war in the interests (in part at least) of "spreading democracy" to the middle-east. While I've never been particularly pro-war or anti-war, I do find the way the government have been acting at home betrays a large dose of hypocrisy.

While they're on this crusade in the name of democracy, let's have a look at what their unelected (should I say unelectable?) Peter Hain has been doing in our own little corner of the United Kingdom.

We have:

• the abolition of our grammar schools and moves to increase the number of private schools, despite a government-sponsored referendum, or household survey (see Appendix 1) to be specific, where two-thirds opposed such a move
• the imposition of water charges to pay, largely, to undo the neglect caused by civil servants over whom we had no control
• and today, confirmation that football will be bullied and blackmailed, by any means necessary, into funding a new stadium in the middle of a field so the government can build a museum to terrorists and yet another bland, soulless retail park

Democracy? What democracy?