There’s Nothing British about Nothing British is there?
I guess from my point of view, there's nothing more desperate ( and pathetically funny ) than a political party creating a splinter organisation to brow beat their competition ( the BNP ), rather than deal with their own serious problems! Welcome aboard the Nothing British about the BNP bus!
A a time when the public ( including me ) what to see action over MPs greed, corruption, fraud, tax evasion and amoral and unjust expense claims - the Tory party would rather focus on having a go at the BNP.
Please David Cameron, get your own house fully in order before you get a few of your " tory boys " on the BNP's case!
You're actually doing nothing to help your cause and moving the focus fully onto the BNP, and giving them far more media attention than they deserve. Wouldn't you rather tackle them head on in a debate with a battle of the minds? OBVIOUSLY NOT...!
I personally believe that the major parties are running scared. They've been in their ivory towers for too long, developing their property portfolios on the back of taxpayers money, squeezing every last penny they can each year from their expense accounts, avoiding Capital Gains Tax by consistently swapping their primary residence designation at every opportunity and relaxing on their ever increasing holidays ( now they have 144 days holiday a hear - nearly 5 months!!!!! WOW ).
They have COMPLETELY forgotten and abandoned the working man in the street, and that is what has driven him into the arms of the BNP, and they know it. They are SOLEY responsible for the rise of the BNP and if they'd done their jobs properly instead of focusing on personal gain, the country would be in a much better state and there would be far less unemployment and discontent.
On their website they say that " We believe in addressing the concerns of those people who feel alienated from their society by government failures on issues like immigration, Europe, religious extremism and job insecurity. This means campaigning for policies that work. "
Yet they mention nothing about honesty, integrity, accountability, professionalism - the key attributes that it seems most MPs are lacking! They don't mention the current government that's drowning in it's own quagmire of sleaze, greed, corruption and scandal.
I'd like to know how they're going to " address the concerns of those people who feel alienated from their society by government failures " by focusing on the BNP? They way they're going about things makes them no better than the BNP I'm afraid!!!
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Loading ...Labour MPs whinging about their Parliamentary Rights.
MPs are attempting to legally block a police probe into their expenses. Scotland Yard have been warned that a police probe would breach their " right of parliamentary privilege ". ( Is that the privilege that specifies expense fraud, tax evasion and " flipping " to avoid paying Capital Gains Tax? )
Once again, it's Labour MPs attempting to avoid paying back money from amoral and excessive expense claims, by trying to utilise a potentially ancient loophole in parliamentary legislation. WHEN WILL THEY LEARN?
Gordon Brown and David Cameron should make it clear right now - if any MP refuses to pay back money for excessive expense claims after the Thomas Legg investigation, they should be removed as an MP and removed from that political party altogether!
This isn't about what the " rules and regulations " stated; this is about what is morally right and just for the tax payer and the public coffers. An independent inquiry has found that the expense system ( self-administered and self-regulated by the same corrupt MPs of course ) was fundamentally flawed and not " fit for purpose " - so just pay up and shut up!
Trying to use the same system that let you abuse public money and trust, is not going to allow you to wriggle your way out of paying back what you should never have been allowed in the first place.
All this comes on the same day that Sir Paul Stephenson ( head of Scotland Yard ) has warned that MORE MPs will face scrutiny over their expenses and that a number of MPs can expect to end up in court - that number may rise yet as investigations are still ongoing.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...David Wilshire to stand down at the next election.
Tory MP David Wilshire has announced that he will stand down at the next election after a meeting with Tory chief whip Patrick McLoughlin.
He still maintains he's " done nothing wrong " and is confident that the Commissioner will clear his name.
In a a statement he said " In the circumstances I have reluctantly concluded that it is sensible for me not to seek re-election next year. " Could it be that he's been given his marching orders by David Cameron who doesn't want the bad smell and scandal of the MPs expenses following him through the upcoming election next year??
Gordon Brown talking about David Wilshire is seen in the video below stating that " there has got to be an inquiry into this " and " we've got to end the discredited old system " ( the discredited old system that was self-implemented, self-monitored and self-maintained by MPs! )
All the time you've got 50 Labour MPs meeting up with Harriet Harman to seek advice about their own expenses claims being investigated by Thomas Legg - how are you going to end the discredited system?? Gordon Brown needs to get his own house in order before he starts demanding investigations into other MPs expenses.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Brown and Cameron united over expenses repayments.
Another day and the expenses saga gets even more farcical!
This morning saw Cameron on GMTV saying that Conservative MPs would have to pay back what was asked by Legg or they wouldn't be allowed to stand again as Conservative MPs ( I'd like to see him enforce that one! ).
Brown on the other hand showed his inability to actually make a firm decision by stating that " he was prepared to consider taking disciplinary action ". Surely he could say that he would definitely take action against those Labour MPs that refused to pay back money?
50 Labour MPs met up with Harriet Harman ( it was only a couple of months ago she was saying that " MPs who fiddle expenses in the future could face jail " ) and Nick Brown for expenses advice.
Is it me or are MPs so sheltered from the real world and normal working life ( Eric Pickles is - see his hilarious interview on Question Time below ) that they STILL don't understand why the public are angry at them. It's not the fact that their flawed expense claims system, setup and administered by themselves, allowed them to rack up huge expenses that most people and businesses would not be able to justify. It's the fact that they can't see they were morally wrong in what they did!
People expect MPs to have a high moral standard and behave in a professional and acceptable manner whilst representing the public, NOT like a bunch of greedy pigs with their noses stuck right into the trough.
Their claims may have been within the " rules and regulations " of what they could acceptably ' get away with '. That doesn't mean they're acceptable to a third party ( as is now being proven ) or even the public. Making up your own rules and regulations and exploiting the system is morally wrong, unjust, unfair and completely unacceptable.
They all need to be big, stand up and apologise for their actions and pay back the money. Trying to block Legg in court, appealing to the parliamentary commissioner for standards or trying to force a vote in the House of Commons only does more damage and makes them look VERY GUILTY!
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