If only

These days we tend to forget that ‘social media’ is not the only conduit for false information. It’s quite possible that local buses are another. On the No.10 (naturally) bus to Cayton yesterday afternoon I heard an old geezer telling his mate how MPs are paid a salary for life, even after leaving parliament. If only. It was clear this chap was a Wetherspoons regular—he had an encyclopaedic knowledge of Wetherspoons pubs from Scarborough to Newcastle. I suspect his MPs tale has been recounted many a time into the lugholes of receptive boozers. What’s worse is that this is the kind of ‘fact’ which it is simply  not worth the effort rebutting if you’re sat on a bus hoping for a quiet ride.