As regular visitors to this site will know, your news team has been highlighting what we consider to be one of the many abuses of Parliament (the so-called “Privileges of Parliament“) for some two years now. When we began our criticism of the cavalier attitude of many “Honourable Members” towards the claiming of our tax money, it was something of a lonely experience - as similar stories in the national media were few and far between. How times have changed! Today we note yet another airing of this issue in one of the country’s leading newspapers - one which has become, quite rightly, party-politically blind on this issue - in response to the growing national revulsion over what many consider to be the theft of their money by our elected representatives. This morning, in the Sunday Telegraph, a Parliamentarian is quoted as saying:
“To use the ACA in this way is incredible. It may be within the law, but it’s like people doing dodgy tax deals which are just about legal but go against the spirit of the tax legislation. MPs should not just play within the letter of the law but also within the spirit of the law. The people opposing reform of this system are bringing democracy and Parliament into disrepute.”
“Bringing democracy and Parliament into disrepute” is exactly what they are doing and consequently, one of the many Herculean tasks of the BNP must be to cleanse the Westminster Augean Stables of the accumulated corruption that so befouls it. However, the claiming of our tax money in “iffy” allowances and expenses claims is but one manifestation of the cancer gnawing away at the very heart of our democracy - another is the willingness of Establishment MPs to enact legislation that is clearly contrary to the wishes of the electorate - legislation detrimental both to the well being of the people of these British Isles and to their ancient rights and liberties. But that’s another issue.
Returning to the subject of ACA, we wonder why it is that so many MPs choose not to live in the constituencies for which they were elected. Indeed, we wonder, how such people can truly claim to represent their constituents when they aren’t even prepared to live amongst them? There are many examples of this - David Cameron, for instance, was elected for Witney in Oxfordshire - yet his main home is in London - as is that of Boris Johnson, formerly Tory MP for Henley! As we say, there are many examples of what we call “absentee landlordism”.
Additionally, we wonder, how many of the dozens of MPs who represent constituencies within easy commuting distance of The House actually stated their intention to use taxpayers’ money to fund second-homes in their election addresses when standing for election? How many will mention it when they stand for re-election? Few - if any - we suspect!
Such is the moral abyss into which the Mother of Parliaments continues to sink.
This morning’s Sunday Telegraph article, to which we refer, begins:
“Taxpayers are funding MPs to run two homes even when they only need one for their parliamentary duties. .”
The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered four cases where MPs are receiving up to £24,000-a-year in “second home allowance” despite one of their two homes being nowhere near either Westminster or their constituency.
Although the arrangement is permitted by House of Commons rules, other MPs called it “incredible” and claimed that it was bringing politicians into disrepute
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BNP = Leading the way, as USUAL. I well remember the silence from the media was deafening. Yet again, good salt-of-the-earth British Nationalists exposing this legal theft from public taxes. As an afterthought, don’t parts of Oxford suffer from floods? Maybe that’s why CAMERON would rather spend time in Africa, rather than with his flooded constituents. Who gives a toss, eh Dave? The BNP,THAT’S who! March on the BNP.
It’s difficult to think of something different or printable to say about these Hoinks of Parliament. I hope the stories keep coming though because every now and again, a brilliant new pig picture appears with the BNP article and I always save them to pass around and email. I particularly liked the one with the three little pigs, each with their coloured Lib/Lab/Con hats on their respective ‘laughing all the way to the bank’ pig heads.
I like the one with this article but think the bucket should have TAXPAYER on it. Also, as the Lib/Lab/Con MONEYVORES are actually one and the same pig with three different heads (or four with EUKIP’s Sponk), can we rubber stamp the pig in this article with the respective party logos, so that impressionable voters can see this ‘one party with three (or four) names SHAM’ for what it really is?
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Um… I’ll have to ask someone. - Ed.
Your allusion to absentee landlords is spot on. Pluralist holdings of Church benefices, absenteeism and the holding of sinecures with easy workloads and munificent salaries led to the Reformation and revolutionary wars such as that of John Hus in Bohemia, and we can easily find parallels to the way in which modern political officials and appointees appear to be acting in just the same way. The BNP is having to act in much the same way as Wyclif and his followers the Lollards were forced to act to expose the full extent of corruption in the medieval Church. They often had to work sub rosa and were vilified and persecuted by the Powers-That-Were. Instead of the ministrations of the Inquisition, the BNP today can look forward to the 42-day detention bill and Eurogendfor, with the MSM providing the defamation.
In the end the corruption in the Church was tackled, but only to transpose itself to the political sphere. Another struggle ensued and seemed to have worked itself out, as well as fallible humans could manage, but now another crisis seems at hand. We will have to see how the public responds to this one. Do they care enough to do something about it like their ancestors did, or will they sink back into apathy and follow the path of least resistance? If you do care, join the British Resistance against Venal Politicians!
The mind boggles at what our illustrious MPs get up to. Still, they may need the money after the next General Election.
We will have to do some serious work in the next 10 months to get a BNP MEP. If nothing else, this will be a major move forward.
Sorry for wasting your time with that earlier post, Ed.
I’ve only just twigged that it’s the Home Secretary, JS, without her clothes on. Yikes!
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:-) - Ed