I just read the most worthless piece of shit the times has ever reported and of course, being the “Honest, well mannered, professional person that I am”. I decided to tear it to pieces in a public forum whilst using copious amounts of swearing.
The article is here: The Times – Making Expenses
From the start, you can see where the article is going, nowhere, largely because whoever wrote it (it has no attributed name, just the name of the paper) must be one of those who looks on with envy, not the hatred that we all use to look at this issue. In paragraph 5, it says:
To begin with, it is hypocritical. There is not one person who has, say, bought lunch for a potential client who would not look absurd and slightly dodgy if it were printed in the newspaper that they charged their employer for a mango sorbet. There is not a single commercial expenses scheme that, if exposed to scrutiny, would not appear to have ambiguous rules or poor policing. Nor are there many who, if offered a cost allowance as part of their remuneration, would not spend it as the rules allowed.
Right, first of all, it’s not hypocritical at all. What they are trying to say is that if YOUR expenses were published and you entertained clients, etc. It would look ridiculous as well. Well, lets all come together and explain to these collective geniuses the differences.
Firstly, it cannot be hypocritcal, because we are complaining about MP’s spending thousands of pounds of OUR MONEY on redecorating their houses, not on whether they took a wealthy Oil Baron to the mini-bar and got him to sign a 4Billion pound contract for jobs and work. I think most of the people in this country would be fine if the money was spent in this way, but no, the problem is that this money just went to line the pockets of the MP’s, at OUR EXPENSE.
Just occured to me now, that any and all of the MP’s expenses, are actually, our expenses. Cause we implicitly pay it through our taxes. It’s the piggy bank they all seem to love so much.
Second snippet, whoever this was must be a comedian, because he doesnt realise the irony of what they just said:
But becoming a British MP in order to get rich is a scheme that only an idiot would devise.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Third snippet, more super genius logic:
Providing parliamentarians with an allowance so that they can have a second home and the means to maintain and decorate it comfortably is entirely reasonable.
Let me just reiterate something here. The allowance they are given, is to keep their life comfortable whilst they serve the country, it’s a means to pay them the means in order to do their service to us, without being the loser and costing them so much money that nobody would BECOME an MP. It is, to basically make life acceptable. So they continue to do their job.
However, the painfully obvious truth, which this super mega genius has forgotten, is that the idea of the allowances, is not to spend every penny of it, but to use it, when you so require because you need something in order to continue your service. The idea isnt to spend every penny because it’s there. But thats human nature I guess, give them the chance and of course they would spend it. So I guess nobody can complain much, it’s the rules which allow the bad behaviour, so I reckon that should be the first to change.
Secondly. I don’t know many people who would spend 400 pounds on a habitat stone sink for the kitchen, when across the town in the council estate, there are people who have to live with a plain aluminium one which is rank with tea bag stains, discolouring from years of use and the taps don’t work properly. I mean, how can you justify it? Just try it, what, you are performing service to your country, so you deserve to have things that your poorest constituents can never have? Thats a hard trick to pull off. It’s why there are so many people who are baying for blood right now, because we can’t understand why someone would think that is acceptable, especially when the money for that sink came from my pocket. What was wrong with the 50 pound one from B&Q, doesnt it work properly?? Does the water not come through the taps JUST LIKE THE EXPENSIVE ONE? It’s bloody obvious that it’s a luxury item. Are MP’s allowances for buying items needed to live modestly whilst in the service of your country, or to buy luxury items nobody else can, because the money was made available. Multiply it by however many expenses and then justify that nurses and doctors cannot be given a payrise. Oh, wait, you can’t justify it, because it’s utter bullshit and nobody will believe your lies.
If the guy bought a 50 pound one from B&Q I doubt anyone would raise an eyebrow, but 400 pounds from habitat??? Now people want your ass because you are plainly exceeding what we have and it’s like kings and peasants, you get elected as an MP and you get to live like a king, or relatively as one.
What do we do? goto B&Q of course, one of those sinks is in my flat, I’m sure of it.
The next nugget of stupidity comes forth:
Who wants to be a politician if you are going to be treated, when you make a claim against allowances and the claim is granted, almost as if you were a crook?
Well, lets analyse what is being said here, it’s said that if you use the allowance made available to you, people will see you as a crook, who wants that? therefore nobody will want to be an MP because nobody wants to be seen as a crook.
What a complete and utter load of bullshit, I mean, WTF, seriously? where did you learn to rationalise this bollocks??
First point, if you have modest expenses, like, 5 pounds per roll of wallpaper and 20 of them, 10 buckets of paint, 10 pounds each, 2 men to do it, probably about 500 pounds to redecorate some rooms (or get off your fat lazy MP backside, stop drinking that expensive sherry and do it yourself like my father does). The carpets of course, what, 500 pounds a room more or less. The list goes on, but as you can see, they aren’t huge expensive items, surely they are what most people can pay and reasonable do so.
The only item I can think which would bring a redecoration bill to 5 figures might be double glazing? thats about 20,000 for the entire house. But thats an expense you only do every 20 something years, not every year, like redecorating your living room. So whilst it’s expensive, I doubt many people will need to do it now.
ok, so basically, if you did this and put it on the allowance, most people would be like, hmm, ok, thats fine, it’s just NORMAL REDECORATING, nobody would brand you as a crook. People see you as a crook, when you are buying 400 pound habitat sinks and thats just the park we know about, what about the things you bought which we don’t know anything, how much was the carpet? 4000 pounds? The wallpaper was 400 pounds per roll? People start to think, if you are buying luxury items for the kitchen, then surely the rest of it is the same and we don’t like to be cheated, so therefore, we think you’re a crook. It’s not difficult to understand or comprehend. If you live like the rest of us and do like the rest of us, you are one of the rest of us. If you do things we can never do or buy things we can never buy, then if our money was used to buy it, we want to know why you think it’s acceptable when nurses, teachers and everyone else paid the taxes to enable you to buy it and they can’t have a payrise, because there is no money. Maybe they should ask for habitat sinks, apparently there is no problem in buying those on taxpayers money, it’s just the payrise they can’t have.
Actually, why not, ok, your nurse want a new living room, she needs a payrise to buy all that furniture, so lets just put in an expenses claim for it, so instead of needing more money, she just orders what she wants and the taxpayer will buy it. Works for the MP’s
Obviously there are some brain cells at work here which are bucking the trend, because at the bottom, you can see they are fighting to escape the grasp of the stupid brain cells. Listen to this:
Who wants to work for an institution – Parliament – that allows all your correspondence to be sold to the press? What sort of people will enter public life? What sort of Parliament will we have?
Honest people will never have a problem in working for this sort of Parliament, thats for sure, because they will stand by their words and deeds, all your correspondence sold to the press? If it was freely available, there would be nothing to sell and nothing to hide, isn’t it what the police always say, if you didn’t do anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide, so it’s so that they intrude on your privacy.
But listen, you are entering public life, to service US, not YOU, if you don’t understand that, then go back to working in wherever you came from. If you truely want to service the UK and believe that you have something to give, we will always pay for it, but in return, we want to know what you are doing and who whom you are saying it. OF COURSE, for some instances of national defence, or perhaps for client negotiations, some things are kept secret, but there are somethings which are not, like what kind of sink you bought to put in your kitchen. It’s the small things which show us and give us intuition about the large things. If you are happy to smile and buy 400 pound habitat sinks, and send smear emails about the Conservatives, then that tells us something about how the big issues work, how you view the world and how you conduct your business. So the small things are important.
Would you be happy for someone to do business on your behalf, who goes back to their office to write smear emails? It’s YOUR signature on all the paperwork that this slimey backstabbing creature is using to do deals with, do you really want someone standing on a podium saying to us all how the recession will be hard, but we have to come together in order to overcome it, the tax increases will help us all by giving the country money in order to do business and those people who are poor enough to be concerned about every pound in their pocket, will have to pay it like the “rest” of us, that, employers cannot pay the other company taxes, or red tape which strangles their balance sheets, so makes redundant all of those workers. THEN you find out they took your tax payer money and spent 400 pounds of it on a sink? 400 pounds on a roll of wallpaper.
Does any of this make anymore sense now?