...another spectator sport?..

Now and again in these rambling pages I have touched on the Member of Parliament for Maidstone and the Weald, one Helen Grant.   Mrs. Grant succeeded the equally underwhelming Ann Widdecombe as the elected representative of the good folk of that part of Kent.   She was one of those chosen as a Conservative parliamentary candidate via the discredited A-list, drawn up so as to ensure more female, gay and ethnic minority candidates in what were supposed to be winnable seats.   I`m sure the aforementioned good folk were over the moon about it.

As a result of the last ministerial reshuffle, Mrs. Grant was appointed to the equalities brief in the Culture Department and with it the unenviable task of getting the government`s gay marriage policies onto the statute book.   Now it`s suggested that the nervous and unconvincing performances put in by Mrs. Grant in the Commons have led to responsibility for this controversial legislation being taken away from her and the baton passed instead to Hugh Robertson, the Minister for Sport, another Kent MP but whose Faversham constituents were not victims of the A-list.  Seems somehow appropriate for the Minister for Sport to take on the gay marriage challenge.   Oh what fun we have.

Seems to me that sometimes the antics in Parliament, at all levels and on all issues, are becoming as much a spectator sport as any other `entertainment.`  Thank goodness there`s not a B-list.