Is there anything Gordon Brown hasn’t given away?
Gordon Brown has spent the last 13 years, both as chancellor and now prime minister, giving away everything we have of value.
I'm not just talking about blindly throwing money at the banks recently ( £1.3 trillion in the last 2 years ), I'm also talking about our rights as individuals and members of the United Kingdom. We've lost our cultural identity ( partly through the poor to non-existent immigration policies of the Labour government and the HUGE influx of both legal and illegal visitors in the last 10 years ); the ability to wave the British flag with pride without fear of persecution from others, the ability to wear the mark of your faith without supposedly offending others, the ability to speak your mind and tell the truth without fear of being instantly branded a racist or Nazi by the political correctness crowd - where will it all end?
He's given our rights over self-governance and justice away to the EU; thousands of laws and regulations that we now have to abide by from Europe ( over 85% of UK legislation is now driven by Europe ).
He gave away the Bank of Englands responsibility for banking regulation in 1997 to the FSA ( the Financial Services Authority - a powerless puppet that stood by and did nothing in the following years to curb the financial disasters of the last 2 years ). Did no-one learn anything from the Nick Leeson fiasco that brought down Barings Bank ( £827 million losses discovered in 1995 )?
The Financial Services and Markets Act imposed four statutory objectives upon the FSA:
- market confidence: maintaining confidence in the financial system
- public awareness: promoting public understanding of the financial system;
- consumer protection: securing the appropriate degree of protection for consumers; and
- reduction of financial crime: reducing the extent to which it is possible for a business carried on by a regulated person to be used for a purpose connected with financial crime
I would personally say that the FSA has failed on all four of it's statutory objectives and should be disbanded immediately with all regulatory power being passed back to the bank of England and Mervyn King?
It wasn't that long ago that Gordon Brown was talking about the lack of restrictive financial regulations being good for business and growth in the UK economy - look where it's got us now Gordon!
He sold our gold reserves at the bottom of the market.
He raided the pensions funds of people that worked hard and saved for retirement all their lives, to leave them with little or nothing.
The list goes on and on and I'm afraid that he is the man who is SOLELY RESPONSIBLE for the dreadful state were in.
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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 ...Jacqui Smith still doesn’t think she’s done anything wrong?
Poor old Jacqui Smith having been forced to apologise to the House of Commons for her outrageous expenses claims makes a half hearted effort and " really doesn't think she's done anything wrong anyway! ".
That's right . . . next time I'm working away and staying in a hotel, I must remember to claim for a few porn flicks!
It's very sad that after everything that has happened this year, she still thinks she's in the right . . . . . really?
I can see her being a sacrificial goat for Gordon Brown in the coming months unless she plays her cards right!!
(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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