More frivilous usage of the EDM system.

There has been a few occasions recently where I found myself getting increasingly annoyed at the waste of tax payers money that comes with the frivilous use of Early Day Motions by some back bench MPs.

The latest in a serious of EDM's that, quite frankly, take the piss comes from Jeff Ennis, the Labour MP from Barnsley East and Mexborough.

His EDM, no 1261 states "That this House congratulates the Irish cricket team for its outstanding performance in reaching the SuperEights stage of the Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean and wishes it every success in further establishing itself as a world-class cricketing nation."

Sorry, but why the hell should we praise another country's cricket team? Especially when you consider that our own did so dismally in the very same tournament.

Although in saying that, if I was an MP I would by writing an EDM calling for Duncan Fletcher to be sacked.