If you put a silk dress on a goat he is a goat still  (Irish proverb)

Queen's Speech goat tradition takes time (Title of article)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18001296 (09-05-2012)

The article learns us the tradition by which the Queens speech is put on parchment. And how that parchment is made. Or to be more precise how the vellum, a fine parchment, is made. By  way of this explanation it is shown to us that recent commentary on the queens speech in which it is said by the opponents of the Lords reform that the government has softened the language of the reform following last week’s electoral, is well unfounded. Simply because the speech was already written before the electoral.

This proverb summarises in part what I think of politics. You can hire a calligrapher to use his best handwriting to put words on vellum created by old-fashioned craftsmen but it still are the words of politicians, and those words do not have much value to me. What I do like about this article is that it does not address the questions about animal cruelty. I think that in some countries, like for instant Holland, this subject would have gotten in the way of what I think, are bigger issues.