Led by donkeys - enough is enough

[Thisisvenus]

Bloody hell, I’ve just watched the new “led by donkeys” video. People like Matt Hancock wanting to work for a fake consultancy firm for obscene amounts of cash.

I cannot tell You how angry MPs make me right now.

I have a relative that is an NHS dr on £14 an hour. She pays for her own travel and parking. All her study… she pays for. She is so busy she sometimes doesn’t eat.

then these idiots earn loads, and then claim back loads of expenses. Disgusting in my opinion. They then get second jobs that pay them £10k a day. Without even checking if company is real first.

In my opinion an mp should only take a second job if it’s in the nhs, army etc or a volunteer job for a registered charity. That’s it. No other reason.

I can’t even process this. I’ve had enough. What on earth can we do to change this? And yes I’ll not be voting Tory at the next election. They are a bunch of posh rich boys that want to just look after themselves. Politics should be more diverse. what on earth can we do?

Having come back from almost a couple of years in Copenhagen, the differences are stark . Everywhere has had issues due to Covid and the Ukraine situation- we have however compounded that with Brexit. No one else has that issue. We have basically handed over our best multi national business both commercial and NGO type organisations to our competitors in the EU on a plate because the UK now isn't a number one port of call for investment unless it's a strong enough pure UK market or it's dodgy business trying to get round EU rules. We are not like the USA, the USA is it's own 'EU' , it has a big enough market for manufacturing business just to service the US. There was never going to be massive investment into run down areas etc because of Brexit , because whilst you can tart a town up a bit or improve its infrastructure , it's not that simple to create well skilled and well paid jobs without outside involvement. We have also created massive problems in the housing market by a lack of controls and this makes moving around difficult too for many

In this country any support for the war was on the back of Blair's lies about the imaginary WMD

Regardless of the other rights and wrongs of that war I honestly never understood this

I don't doubt for an instant that the threat was exaggerated, but it's known that Iraq used chemical gases at al Faw and others, so unless they're not considered WMD I'm not sure how they could be said to be imaginary?

It wasn’t. Howard said it was justified on the grounds of regime change and he’d have done the same as Blair.

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/howard-under-fire-over-iraq-7247839.html

Thank you, Blossom; that's interesting and something I'd not seen before

Yes. Little known fact, isn’t it? I can see that link coming in handy for a long time.

^ This.

Luckily there is a party leader who seems to agree, so perhaps we should vote for their party next time around?

I don't think Keir Starmer agrees at all.

https://news.sky.com/story/sir-keir-starmer-defends-shadow-foreign-secretary-david-lammy-earning-200-000-from-second-jobs-12782220

"But I still want the House of Commons to agree new rules which are stricter than the rules that we've got - the sooner we can do that, the better."
So he agrees there should be stricter rules with exceptions for those that need to top up professional qualifications, writing political books and media work.

Tory MPs have received £15.2m from second jobs since the last general election, dwarfing the combined income of politicians who represent other parties

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/08/tory-mps-receive-152m-second-jobs-since-2019-election

This entirely 🙌🏻

There literally is nobody to vote for. The whole system needs a complete overhaul….

Conservative MPs have received £15 million in seconds jobs.
Labour MPs have received £2 million.

While 54% of MPs are Conservatives, they account for 89% of external income over the last three years

But yeah, they are all the same

In the name of all that is holy... that is just awful

Pigs at a trough

My mistake Labour MPs received 1.2 million.

And that 15.2 million to Tory MPs only includes £1 for Johnson - so you can add £4 million to that total.

All since 2019.

amp.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/08/tory-mps-receive-152m-second-jobs-since-2019-election

£1 million not £1!

Well this just demonstrates how much more talented Tory MPs are. I for one will continue to doff my cap to them.

Kwarteng charges £1,000+ to be interviewed on TV.
And TalkTV and GBNews have paid him

"People should be compensated for their time when they have left office....When you’re a backbencher, you don’t even have a driver..."

Oh dear. His diamond shoes really pinch, don’t they? Poor lamb doesn’t even have a driver, it really is shit.

The trouble may be that like the Prime Minister he does not know how to fill a car up with fuel.

I reckon the voters should revolt on mass next GE and only vote for independents / tiny little less money grabbing parties.

#dontvote4adikdikdikdik
(Dikdikdikdik = 2 deer (too)

Well, the answer is that if you don't like it stand yourself as an independent - problem solved.🙂

He's going to learn the hard way that people who have left office have very little value for TV and radio companies. Even TalkTV and GBNews are going to work out that there are enough backbenchers desperate to get their mugs on TV without charging to mean they can tell KK to take a running jump.

I hope nobody would vote for corbyn 🤢🤮 . Politics the world over stunk.

I know...he wanted us all to have free broadband...the bastard.
A friend of mine lives in his constituency and loves him.