EXPENSES-MORE LIKE EXPENSIVE

Yes, I know, boring, everyone is talking about it and we are all angry. BBC NEWS

But the “expenses” fiasco hides a deeper problem in politics, Jacqui Smith is an MP, she has been elected by the people, she has a salary of £60,000 per annum, and claimed £157,631 in total in 2007/08.

Bugger the ten quid claimed for a couple of porn movies, it was wrong and is probably more of an embarrassment to her regarding her relationship with her husband, the problem is the “second home allowance” mind set of MPs, it is the let’s screw as much as we can out of the country while we are in power policy.

The Prime Minister has backed the Home Secretary, because “this was a "personal matter", which ought not to "detract" from her "great" work.” Sorry Gord you are wrong, this isn’t a personal matter this is a matter for the people who elected labour into Government, because if we can’t trust MPs to be honest over expenses, why should we trust them to run the country for our benefit?

The answer is that we can’t, we have seen the economy destroyed, our boys being killed because of lack of equipment in a war which we didn’t want, the NHS crumbling, because of piss poor management, and lack of common sense and endless admin, the eviction of thousands of people from their homes because they have lost their jobs and can’t afford to pay their mortgages while Billions are poured into banks, unemployment at its highest for years, mental illness at its highest for years, while the government carries on ripping us off.

The word ethical comes to mind, is it ethical of MPs to believe they have the right to claim our money to fund their second homes, what is the problem with these people?

We all commute to work, whether it’s 10 miles or 100 miles, we pay for the fuel, and road tax and insurance, or for train tickets from our salaries, if we need to stay away for a night we put in a claim form, MPs don’t, they have a second home so that they can go to “work” without having to commute, and we are expected to finance those homes.

The Government is amoral at the moment it doesn’t give a rats’ arse about the millions of struggling families, maybe it says it does on the surface, and in the spin that vomits from the press office, but deep down it doesn’t care, the “ME” culture spawned by the Thatcher Government has dragged on into a Government that doesn’t know if it’s labour, Conservative or Monster Raving Loony, personally I would go for the last.

When Labour can prove to us that it is trustworthy then perhaps Gordon Brown will have the respect of the people who mistakenly voted labour into power.

When.


"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." Thomas Jefferson



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