Pigeon

I was beginning to believe our friends in the Pigeon Party has learnt the primer of politics and started to achieve their objective by negotiation.

But I was wrong, from head to toe.

Who in his right mind would show all his cards in a poker game and disclose to the public all details of negotiation with the other side ? (The real question is, who in his right mind would negotiate again with this thick-headed lots, or who - in her right mind - would agree to be the middleman, or really, the middlewoman, next time ?)

Well, on one hand it proves that the Pigeons are not crooks.

But, I am more uneasy than ever to put my vote in the future on some complete idiots. (Well, yes, I never voted for them in the past anyway.)

PS. It is a romantic idea, or the result of reading too much Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn indiscriminately, that people doing politics should record every discussion - be it formal or casual - on paper, so that it could be used as documentation later.

Humphrey Appleby in real life never does.