MPs Expenses, Euro Elections, Lisbon Treaty, Referendum 

MPs Expenses

Why are we all so surprised that the MPs have been milking the system, of course most of them are and have been for generations.

The media are having a field day and are milking the system in exactly the same way and the bandwagon is really on a role.

I have been holding back from making a comment and hoping that it will hasten change in the political system which has not been working for ages and I have been criticising elsewhere on this website for ages.

For me personally I see these revelations and the public’s reaction as a very good thing and it is well nigh that the public started to wake up.

Although the MPs expenses row is in the UK, much of the same is happening in the states, where bankers are being slammed for big fat bonuses that ordinary people can only dream about.

Equally in the UK, the banker’s bonuses row heralded the beginning of people openly objecting to the fat cat brigade, to which the MPs expenses row inevitably followed in the tide of discontent that is sweeping over all of us.

This discontent was reached its apex when the financial crisis kicked in, without the recession nobody would be bothered about how much the MPs expenses were, but now the general public is suffering we are all going to whine about those still leading an opulent lifestyle, and in particular MPs who we see as responsible in some way for the financial crisis we find ourselves in.

Let’s face it, if house prices were still going up, providing as it has been an income that almost doubled our income (and for some people often exceeded our salary) then we would have sat back contented and assumed that MPs were doing a reasonable job and deserved a reasonable salary.

However, now house process have gone down, wiping away some of that equity we thought we had in the bank (in the form of property) we suddenly object wildly to any discrepancy (fuelled by an opportune media witch-hunt) in our MPs expenses because we blame them for the financial crisis.

Of course MPs are often corrupted, the same as anyone else. Of course the MPs, when they are seen to be doing a bad job, are overpaid.

I am not defending MPs, but explaining the public’s reaction.

However by comparison to some of the city fat cats in the financial sector in particular, MPs are quite reasonably, dare I say it poorly paid, considering the job they should be doing and the responsibility that should go with it.

Some MPs are very good and dedicated and importantly vote according to their moral conscience, and do not over claim on their expenses, but these are in the tiny minority, and this is why the MPs expenses argument is fuelling itself.

We are highly disillusioned, fed up and waking up, which is all good because if we for once demand and push through change then all for the better.

However, how much of a change do the general public believe is required?

The reasons they are waking up and objecting are very fickle, the general public is remarkably ignorant of how bad things really are and by how much they are controlled from the cradle to the grave.

I see that the expenses row gives an opportunity for much wider change.

Hopefully the public’s memory and this current reaction will last long enough for many smaller parties and independent MPs to get into Parliament, but the public’s memory is short lived and is easily swayed by other news that takes their mind away from it, and the current crop of political termites know that.

When things were financially better for most of us with house prices rising 10% a year, who now remembers Prescott and his expenses row and deceit when he was enjoying his particularly opulent lifestyle, which was worse than any current one, but that affair did not last long. If it had lasted the media would have looked at his English Estates affairs more closely which were covered in deep grime, but nobody did as there was no particular mileage in it for the media at that time.

Equally the general public never really reacted or looked at the Blair mortgage fiasco and subsequent speaking costs of the Blair’s, but now in this financial climate the public’s and media reaction would have tarnished his reputation for ever.

The MPs expenses row is fickle, but I am pleased it is happening as it may bring about change, the sort of change I talk about in my Reality Party section, real change that may herald a new beginning in the history of politics, and a real change is the least we should be looking for and not just an amendment in the way MPs claim their expenses.

We need a change, we need new MPs, and the UK general public also need to feet away from the political whips situation that does not allow democracy to function properly.

Let’s be honest, the greed process is deep in our culture, a lot of these MPs are surprised by our reaction, everyone else is doing it, so why should I miss out, that is the feeling of the MPs and the fat city cats.

This attitude has reached a crisis point, the rich get richer and who cares a fig about the rest of them is commonplace, the poor are once again indeed getting poorer.

The double dealing MPs, not least some of Blair’s babes, (I never understood that term or shared his taste), are amongst the worst, a new breed of hungry for power at any cost female, are finally looking less smiley and confident, and it does strike me that it is the most prominent and well heeled politicians that are suffering most of all from the expenses row.

I shed no tears for them and hope that people will remember all the varying discrepancies.

This expenses row may simply disappear into the deep recesses of our memory banks if we are not careful and nothing will come out of it except some accountants will profit from it, and some very good honest MPs, the few there are will throw the towel in and give up because of public hostility towards them, the dishonest ones will brazen it out as they have always done.

The reason this row will continue is because the MPs have handled it astonishingly badly, by behaving so arrogantly and without a hint of being sorry they have further angered an already hostile general public, this is just showing the public how comepletely out of touch with the real world they really are.

Hazel Blear epitomised that reaction by saying that she had done nothing wrong and stuck to the rules, but whose rules are those, who else would get away with it? 

If she had not been found out she would never have repaid the money she swindled, but simply because she repaid it quickly once found out she then has the effrontary to say she stuck to the rules, that is precisely the arrogance that is annoying people, a simple sorry and perhaps it might have gone away.

The political system has been run as a club for too long, all mates together regardless of which political party they are part of, individually they have no voice, and together they have only one voice, the voice they are told to have as demanded from the EU.

If the MPs expenses row does one thing I will be pleased, and that is that the public look more closely at the political system.

The current one is flawed and designed to be that way.

It allows democracy to be seen as active, without actually being a democracy at all.

It gives the people a vote, without that vote having any effect at all.

To finish I will reiterate, MPs are not overpaid for the job they should be doing, but very few are actually doing the job they are voted in to do, therefore let the argument roll on, and let’s hope for change, but not just a fickle change that placates are annoyance over expenses.

Let’s really go for it!

Let’s go for politicians that actually have the integrity to stand up for what they really believe in.

Let’s go for politicians that will stand up against the injustices that we have currently such as agricultural and rat poisons like aspartame and fluoride being pumped into us to suppress us.

Let’s go for politicians that will greatly reduce our utility bills by releasing free energy rights onto the world, instead of allowing large corporations to conceal and keep secret free energy patents.

Lets for once choose politicians who will stand up for the whole population in making the world a more peaceful safer and more environmental place to live in, ones that truly care about the lives of its people and ones that put that foremost and well before any self recompense that they can personally get out of it.

To be an honourable MP, let them be honourable, just for once and get rid of all the rest.

The hour of being in a position that you can help others should be enough for anyone.

That should be reward enough, but yes, I believe we should give them a reasonable salary, so that they can concentrate on getting on with improving others lives.

My one worry behind all this is that the MPs expenses row is now being used as a smokescreen to cover up something else a bit more sinister, perhaps to take our mind off some other bill they are trying to rush through unnoticed possibly concerned with the swine flu pandemic in trying to rush through emergency control measures under the guise of emergency health measures.

There is also a case regarding Guantanamo bay, where a Muslim who was tortured has stated that MI5 were involved.

There is a list of torture treatments used by the Americans on prisoners which MI5 and the government are trying to stop being published because they say it would have long term damage on the relationship between the British and the Americans.

This actually very enlightening bit of information is very much in small print on the inside pages currently when normally it would be front page material.

One thing I have learnt is that you never learn anything from the front pages, the real news is always hidden in the small print hidden on the inside pages with a small headline.

Under the current regime, MPs are as expendable as anyone and if a few good ones go as well because of the expenses row, all the better for them.

Jacqui Smith and the DNA database law slipped through the back door under cover of the MPs expenses row.

It is of great interest to note that while the MPs expenses has taken centre stage in the papers, as usual something more important and newsworthy has slipped through the back door concerning our civil liberty, as has so often happened under Labour.

This is no mistake but a deliberate ploy, it has happened too many times, it is a labour tactic to get contentious issues passed while nobody is noticing, but this one is so insidious it should carry a crime of treason against the main perpetrators, namely Jacqui Smith and Gordon Brown.

On page 34 of the Daily Mail, very near the back of the paper as though it has no interest to anybody was a piece of real news of far more importance than the expenses row, which put into shade the sheer treachery of the expensive MPs, by clearly showing that certain MPs have reached the utter depth of treachery and slime in totally ignoring any shadow of democracy that might have existed.

I will say it loud and clear, while traitors like Jacqui Smith are in government we will never have any semblance of democracy.

Jacqui Smith is trying to bypass Parliament by denying MPs a vote on the DNA database, it means that police will hold innocent peoples genetic fingerprints for up to 12 years.

The police have tried this before but the European Court of Human Rights ruled last year that is was unlawful, so Jacqui Smith produced new laws which bypass the European Court of Human Rights and is now trying to bypass an MPs vote as well, because simply they would vote against it.

Who the hell does she think she is, and why is she pushing this through when she knows it is against the very people who voted her in.

The home office of which she is in charge, a bunch of civil servants she is in charge of, and we pay for, has admitted that it plans to rush through these new reforms through parliament using a ‘statutory instrument’ whatever that is.

This means it can be rubber stamped and approved in 90 minutes of discussion by a small bunch of mainly labour people with no debate or vote by the House of Commons.

They are saying that this needs to be done quickly to comply with the European ruling as soon as possible, and there is no time to go to parliament, however there would have been if Jacqui Smith had not waited and wasted five months, obviously deliberately, since the European judgement knowing full well this is a very contentious issue and one of huge national importance.

The police’s immense powers have already created the world’s largest police database of its kind which now holds approximately five million, of which 850,000 are innocent according to the law.

This surely is a treasonable act, trying to circumnavigate parliamentary process because they would be defeated by the MPs, where has democracy gone, that we allow people like this to completely abandon our wishes?

A spokesperson from the home office confirmed that there would be a consultation, but also confirmed that would not include a debate or vote by MPs in the House of Commons.

So much for the home office!

We must assume that since the Home office are pushing this against parliamentary procedures that the Home office itself is nothing more than an enemy of the people that it is supposed to be representing and looking after.

It should also be noticed that Gordon Brown will be pushing this, before he gets rightfully chucked out, and that he has been in consultation in the last few days with..... yep!  You guessed it, Tony Blair, who also took away as many of our rights as possible and used every occasion he could to shove through unpopular laws while undercover of other headline stories, many with the help of the lovely (European) Mandy Mandelson.

What a traitorous, vile and totally undemocratic bunch they have turned out to be and even in their death throws, they are still wheedling through major law changes behind everybody’s back.

Please vote for change, and not the change that the conservatives are advertising, we need a complete change, MPs with integrity and HONESTY, which is not what we have currently.

Further Comment.

Well at least Jacqui Smith has no gone, or has she?

She is still in the government, having done her good? work, and still being paid for it and will not stay until the next election, so what next, there is no doubt that a job in Brussels will beckon, as it did for Blair and Mandelson in the form of a payoff.

So the spotlight then fell on on dear Hazel, and that supercillious untrustworthy smile, and the spotlight fell when she fell, with all her ambitions to be prime minister.

Then Flint, who nobody actually cared about anyway tried to stick her knofe in Browns back.

Blairs babes did nothing to enhance the progress of women in government simply because they were an obnotious lot.

At the moment of writing, Brown is still surviving, having reshuffled enough of a cabinet, but we still await the European results, which is when another fight for will start again.

But what a sham.

I started this article about MPs expenses in Britain, but that is nothing compared to the scandal of the euro MPs, but nothing is being said about that.

That is the real gravy train and the MPs are milking it, but nothing is said! Curious, or is that still to come or more likely will Brussels keep that quiet.

If I sound angry I am, any credibility we had for MPs has completely gone, which is sad for a few good ones, the few who actually were not around for the wrong reasons, but for the belief that they could improve things.

I am not putting them down out of anger, but to emphasize how bad things are.

New parties are emerging and it is good to hear it.

We still have a long way to go to break the strangleholds of the whips, they will cling together to the last on one sinking ship, trying like mad to stop independants and small parties gaining enough power to create a hung parliament or worse, but it must be done for only then will we have a true democracy.

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