M.P’s in the U.K. regardless of what they may say , and removing expenses from the equation for the moment , have one of the best paid jobs in the country for what they actually do.
This includes gems like –
They have absolutely no obligation what so ever , unlike the rest of us , to actually go to “work” every day ……….think about it ……when your fighting your way through the traffic , struggling to make ends meet in a rubbish 9-5 job , five days a week..!!!.
The best - paid holidays in the country – bar none .
They are seemingly exempt from the laws of the land being goverened by vague voluntary codes, which make them , if it comes down to it, answerable only to themselves .
When they “retire” from political life they are given big pay offs at the expense of the taxpayer , to then slip in to a directors job in a sector which they “strangely “ had dealings with during their political career.
etc …etc…etc…..
With this in mind and moving to the question of expenses –
How ironic that the official lists of M.P’s expenses in the U.K. , which incidentally - they have been forced to publish due to a court order , are so heavily censored they would have never revealed any of the scurrilous claims in the first place………
……….. and hence we’d all be sailing along in ignorant bliss with “our” duck houses and sparkling clean - moats ………………………………….:)
You would have thought after the press had published some of the uncensored expenses details and the following public furore, the subsequent slaughter of the political scape goats !! , and of course the talk of reform and transparency , our intelligence wouldn’t be further insulted by the excuse that they were censored for so
called …………….. ………… “ security reasons “ ………….!!!
…………………… insert scream here …………………………..:) ………………
Politicians have been given chance after chance to clean their act up ,but instead they insist on feeding the public - excuses that children can see through , continue to censor their wrong doing behind a wall of official secrecy , and then of course there’s the empty talk …………………….
The recently announced, police investigation in to the above , rather like the cash for questions - affair will get absolutely nowhere , and to be honest - just smacks of window dressing to me . I reckon the only way you can get this lot to act like decent human beings is at the barrel of a metaphoric gun – think Magna Carta , or a similar type of document which is as legally binding – because the days of voluntary codes ….………………………….have long gone ……………
There is , as others have suggested, another way , and this involves re instating the monarchy as heads of the country , but I’m not really sure how this would work , although a Magna Carta in that particular situation would probably be a good idea
too :)
