Afternoon,
We were promised a shit-storm in regards of MPs expenses, and so far we are not being disappointed.
With the millionaire minister, Barbara Follett being revealed to having claimed some £25,000 for ‘security’ and that’s not even scratching the surface – the government are being hit time after time after time, without having time to recover from the unrelenting blows raining on it. The Prime Minister himself has not got away from this lightly himself, having to explain to officials why he felt that he needed to claim some £6,000 off expenses for a cleaner. The same £6,000 which found its way into the hands of brother, Andrew – whom himself is a senior executive of EDF Energy, so surely he himself would not be short of a few quid. And this is from a Prime Minister who is wanting to punish benefit scroungers…
What we are seeing this morning is the complete and utter guttering of the political classes in this country – and not before time. For way too long the government of the day of whatever hue has taken stupendous amounts of money from the electorate and has splurged out on ridiculous things, yet at the same time they have been telling people that to do such things in everyday life is not just wrong, but criminal. Yet the only thing MPs saw as criminal yesterday morning was the whistle blowing which has seen these revelations come out. I suggest that says more about the morals of members of parliament or lack there of…
If our cabinet ministers worked for a private company or public corporation half of them would be out of a job yesterday morning. They would have been shown the door and instructed not to return. Moreover than not, their employers might then call in the police – MPs are the last people who should be calling in the police…The MP for Harrow might be rather worried this morning…
Of course there is a pattern to this – these scandals of shamelessness or which there are many on both sides of the house. The politicians will of course claim, as they always do, that they acted within the rules – rules that they decided upon and they police. But the common thread is an expedient switching from one residence to another of the property that they designate as their second home. So Hazel Blears allegedly uses taxpayers' money to help furnish no fewer than three separate homes. Other home-switchers do the same to maximise the profit. But then other home-owners do not have the privilege of wasting tax-payers money…
As I have previously said, the sleaze spreads across all the benches - but as much as Chairman Brown would wish otherwise, it is always going to look worse for the government because Labour came to office in 1997 on a promise to clean up public life. On entering parliament its MPs, like all the rest, were required to sign on to Lord Nolan's seven principles of public life. These include leadership, selflessness and integrity. Those principles have as much worth as a Didier Drogba apology. These expenses claims have eroded public trust in public life to a point where it stands lower than it did during the worst of the Tory scandals in the 1990s. Remember the Tory MP, found dead with a orange gagged to his mouth…now that was entertainment, this is criminality…
What we are discovering is widespread corruption and fraud at the heart of the Mother of All Parliaments. Whether they are Red, Blue or Yellow, they are at it – and it going to have to come to the point when the people decide enough is enough. Direct Action is probably the only way that those in power will listen, whether the people of this country like it or not. I remember the early part of this decade when the fuel protests paralysed this country for a few days, the government was close to breaking point back then. It would only need to take a few days of non co-operation by people, to bring the bastards to their knees, before they would have no choice but to come to the table…
The government has already been getting its attack dogs ready for the ‘Summer Of Rage’ with ACPO and various other right-wing bodies sharing the fears for the coming few months. Better not disappoint the fuckers now…
Keep your money safe, you don’t want it going to an undeserving shit!
Rob :)
Edit: A Video from Tory Politico....I really do wonder why they are getting so excited, they are next in the cross-fire...
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