The parliamentary expenses crisis rumbles onwards. After watching the mealy-mouthed Margaret Beckett patronise the British public last night: “You wouldn’t understand why we need to claim so much money because you are so stupid…it’s because we want to sit on stinking great piles of cash paid for by you.” OK, she didn’t say that, but she might as well have said. And then you had Ming The Merciless Campbell justifying his £10,000 refurbishment bill. Heck, if he needed his love pad tarted up, he should have done the decent thing and met the expenses halfway and gone 50/50. But no, we foot the bill…we always will do.
The worrying thing about this is that I am increasingly agreeing with the fucking Conservatives. I find myself nodding along to Tebbit (spit) who says don’t vote Tory at the Euro elections to punish them. And agreeing with Widdiecombe and last night Theresa May. I think that the world has gone mad or at least I have passed into some sort of alternative Bizarro-world multiverse where everything I believe has become perverted and the opposite of what I know.
Some say that it is only money and we shouldn’t complain. But these are supposedly honourable members of parliament who we have trusted with our electoral power. But if we can’t trust them to do their expenses, then how can we trust them to make decisions on our behalf. Massage chairs and home cinema systems come first in this political world.
These people aren’t fit for purpose and are criminals. I will repeat myself again: they are criminals. They have committed fraud and have stolen our money. The rules are clear if you read them. Expenses are for items that will aid their work in parliament and should not be viewed as extravagent or unnecessary by the public. “But we were only following the rules,” they bleat. No, no you were not. Claiming for mortgages you’ve paid, rent that doesn’t exist and generally using the public’s money as your personal investment account is not sticking to the rules.
So we have a political system that is broken. OK, there are many members of parliament who don’t fiddle their expenses and who are blame free, but one rotten apple spoils the barrel. And if they are blameless, they should be judged by their electorate.
I was thinking about this and realised that the Queen should dissolve parliament and we should start again. Clear out the rubbish naturally, by our own hand and try to regain our political trust.
Thankfully, one guy has already started an online vote. I suggest you add your voice to this. Of course, nothing will actually happen but at least you can expend your impotant rage with a mouse click. It is either that or we join together and reclaim parliament by force.
Who’s got the AK47s????

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