Very un-Common

Chessman


Joined: 13/05/2008
Posts: 486

Message Posted:
10/10/2008 13:00

This has just been emailed to me!



Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following employee statistics:

29 have been accused of spouse abuse

7 have been arrested for fraud

9 have been accused of writing bad cheques

17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses

3 have done time for assault

71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit

14 have been arrested on drug-related charges

8 have been arrested for shoplifting

21 are currently defendants in lawsuits

84 have been arrested for drink-driving Which organisation is this ?

It's the 635 members of the House of Commons!

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
10/10/2008 13:09

yea but does that make them bad people...........

ilovecyprus


Joined: 08/05/2007
Posts: 2880

Message Posted:
10/10/2008 13:17

I don't think so jock. Besides the majority probably all suffered some terrible childhood abuse. Poor little mites



To cut a long story short.....had a local Conservative candidate try to allign himself to a cause I was involved in. One minute he was there, next he was gone. He had been expunged for having an extensive, elaborate and expensive gun collection for which he didn't have a licence.

That didn't make him a bad person

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
10/10/2008 14:02

He should set his sight's higher.............

wynyardman



Joined: 15/12/2007
Posts: 4580

Message Posted:
10/10/2008 16:12

Pays good, pensions brilliant, expences unbelievable.



Where can I get an application form, I think I may qualify.



wyn

Chessman


Joined: 13/05/2008
Posts: 486

Message Posted:
10/10/2008 16:50

Wyn



You would fail in your quest to be in such 'illustrious' company. You could not possibly sink this low, it's way too far to fall!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
10/10/2008 17:09

Wyn, Don't do it - it's not worth risking it all!

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
11/10/2008 09:07

wasn't it a couple of year back, when a member of the uk gov got caught for not paying his council tax on a few houses he owned?

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
11/10/2008 09:15

Chessman,



Whilst I find the post amusing I feel that it is somewhat misleading... At anyone time there are 635 MPs but these "crimes" refer to a moving feast...



Over what period of time were these statistics collected? And how many MPs passed through on their way to the humiliation of being cast aside at the ballot box?

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
11/10/2008 09:35

In fact it's bollocks as this list refers to the USA Congress....



http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/congress.asp

Chessman


Joined: 13/05/2008
Posts: 486

Message Posted:
11/10/2008 11:04

Groucho.



It was posted as it was sent to me. It was funny, regardless. I can't believe you researched it. Who cares, just laugh!

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
11/10/2008 22:59

It took me thirty seconds to find it.... hardly research!



As for finding it funny... I already said it seemed amusing but when you think about it it's not because it's just wrong....



It's not a joke it's meant to be an amazing fact but turns out to be just made up nonsense and hardly worth the effort... sorry. 2/10