Sir Stuart Bell was rolled out yesterday in an attempt to douse the public flames of anger around MPs' expenses.
David Cameron yesterday apologised to the public for his MPs' behaviour and called it a bad day for Parliament and the Conservative party. Mr Cameron, every day has been a bad day for taxpayers for decades it seems. Gordon Brown has been on radio this morning saying the past few days have been dreadful for Parliament and if you listened carefully the word 'sorry' tripped from his lips. Truthfully Mr Brown I'm not interested in how your thieving colleagues feel and to send labour MPs an email telling them they're blameless is deplorable.
Now I understand senior labour MPs want to privatise the Fees Office which would exempt receipts from publication under Freedom of Information rules. We have responsible accountants within the civil service and they're called the Inland Revenue and the Customs and Excise. Let either one of these department handle MPs' expenses in the future. We must not allow another quango or a private company to deal with this matter.
Have I missed even one MP on radio or television this morning saying 'sorry'? Has even one MP offered publicly pay back anything to the public purse? Of course not, the guilty majority are all scurrying around heads down, mobiles off and the few who have behaved honourably are being feted as some kind of heroes just for doing their job efficiently.
How did this all come about? Have a read of OldHolborn's post as he has one of the answers. The man's not even an elected official. How many more civil servants are milking us for all we're worth? The whole Westminster village is corrupt. The UK system of government is rotten to the core and now we have the chance to ensure it's changed. It's time we had people of integrity representing us and not thieves. Any MP who has made questionable claims ought to be sacked before they can grab more money from the public purse. Time we the public made the rules.
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Westminster is indeed rotten to the core, Subrosa.
Sorry for going slightly off subject but can someone (preferrably Crazy Daisy) explain to me why Alex Salmond takes only one salary?
I'm genuinely keen to ken.
Naldo I'm not sure on this subject and others will know far more than me but have a look at this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6284740.stm
Time for a GE to restore peoples confidence in the system. But will Broon call one? I doubt it. They're all hoping this story will fall off the radar and then it will be back to business as usual.
SR,
I predict a riot, many of them!
Naldo dinnae be lazy ma loon, Google it if yi wunt tae ken at much!
I'm nae defending him, but he and his team put a damn sicht mair elba grease in tae workin fur Scotland than ony budy ilse sae far.
Crazy D
I sent Margaret Moran and Kitty Ussher an email as well asking why I, as a tax-payer, had to pay for Moran's lover's dry rot and Ussher's Artex ceiling.
No reply, of course.
Purely out of interest, aren't Moran and Ussher Scottish names?
Madame,
The Daily Mash has an excellent dit on this - please enjoy you'll be laughing heartily!
CD
Sir, I shall do it immediately I've had dinner.
John, I think Moran is an Irish name and I'm not sure about Usher. Some other reader may know hopefully.
subrosa,
Moran is the Gaelic for "lots" or "plenty". "Mor" is big and moran is "bigger than big" - seems quite appropriate somehow.
Strong stuff Subrosa, but I agree with every word. These people are thieves. They knew it was wrong; they knew it was immoral, even if by stretching it every which way, it could be said to be in the rules. I don't think for a second it will go away. I don't know anyone who isn't completely and uttery sickened; people from all parties and from a wide variety of age ranges and backgrounds.
I've written to MPs in the past (most recently the Wintertons over their housing scandal, and the Edinburgh guy, whose name escapes me, but, you know, the one who thought that he would pay respect on Remembrance Day by having sex with a tart in his office, and take photographs of it and then lie his teeth off about it.
Sir Nicholas and Lady Anne decided not to bother answering me (possibly a bit beneath people of their station to respond to the likes of me), and the Edinburgh manslut replied asking me to support his campaign for a nuclear weapons free world, like I'd never called him a dirty little git!
I guess at least he will lose his seat at the next election. I hope he has to go to Jobcentre Plus and get treated like shite!
Subrosa, thanks for that link. Think i get it now. Eck only earns about £150k per year for doing 3 jobs (FM, MSP and MP).
I think that's more than anybody should earn while there is still poverty in this world. But that's my class envy for ya.
And i still say he should resign the Westminster seat, concentrate on Scotland and pave the way for a famous SNP Westminster bye election win. The last hopefully.
the thing that pisses me off is that any MP thinks that as long as they say sorry, everything will be ok..i mean, do they really think after stealing all our money, a piddly appology will make things alright again..absolute tossers, one and all.
Sir the Daily Mash was superb. I always forget to read it daily so now I'm having it sent weekly by email. Clever this technology.
John, did you see Brownlie's excellent definition of names?
Tris, as I've said in the past, I have an excellent MP and also MSP. They answer emails (usually by snail mail for some reason) but they are always answered.
When Brown seized the Icelandic banks I emailed him a few times and also Alistair Darling. Not even an automated reply.
Brown was possibly too busy practising putting his make-up on and Darling too busy speaking to his solicitor who was moving his homes around.
They should all be sacked, with the few exceptions, then made to reapply for their jobs. I bet most would have the nerve to try too even though they insist they could earn a great deal more money in business. That's nonsense of course.
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