Lies!

Bit slow off the mark with this one, but I doff my cap to Mick Bates AM. He was caught giving the finger to fellow Assembly Member Rhodri Glyn Thomas, and came up with the truly magnificent "excuse" that he was: "showing Rhodri Glyn Thomas which finger he should use to operate the Assembly’s modern push-button voting system. "

This leaves my top three shameless politicians' excuses looking like this:

1) Mark Oaten - "trauma of baldness"
2) Ron Davies - "looking for badgers"
3) Mick Bates - "voting system help"