Most MPs look after their own interests first.
In what can only be described as Justice, the dodgy MPs are being found out playing the Mortgage Interest “win win” lottery.
I have been keeping very quiet about this subject as I initally thought that the MP expenses story was just sensationalism, and that more relevant issues needed addressing. But reading some of the recent reports, I now feel it has gone so far that our political system is now broken. No guilty MP can look their constituents in the eye when they have been manipulating the system for personal gain, and now coming out and saying that they wont capitalise going forward is just an admission of guilt and acknowledgement that they havent acted with honour in the past.
I would love to see the report of the good guys and girls, and they should be the ones taking the country forward, not the bumbling fools trying to wiggle out of what is blatant abuse of a system which is supposed to rely on trust. Those that have abused that trust deserve what they get.
I think that what sticks in the throat of the general public, is that whilst people are losing their jobs, and many in financial services are, the MP’s gobsmackingly try and defend their actions, it’s a complete media car crash for those MP’s that have attempted to justify their actions.
I think the Telegraph deserve huge praise for the release of the information, it is definitiely in the public interest that the sleazy tories and slippery labour hypocrites get named and shamed. If those who have blatantly abused the system, sit in either the cabinet or shadow cabinet, they should stand down if they have a shred of decency left, and the party leaders should bring in those MP’s who have been blatantly acting as honourable people.
Only when we have a clean cabinet and shadow cabinet, is their any chance of rebuilding trust and credibility of our democratic system.
Your concerned Trumpo.
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May 15th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Let’s face it, there’s been no accountability for this whole mess we’re in at the moment…
A lot of MP’s screw the taxpayer for everything they can get, and where’s the accountability – NOWHERE!
The FSA’s primary duty is to uphold confidence in the financial sector for the public – DID THEY DO THAT, NO. HAS ANYONE FALLEN ON THEIR SWORD OR BEEN SACKED, NO.
The Banks’ screwed up and where were the FSA asking the right questions – NOWHERE!
The FSA screwed up, and where were the Governement – NOWHERE!
The Government won’t get involved in commercial decisions made by the Banks now (as they didn’t before this damned mess!), but expect a different result this time….WHY!?!?!!
The Banks are full of people lining their own pockets; Parliament seems to be full of people lining their own pockets (not all of them of course, but…); the FSA are allegedly a bunch of incompetent clowns who clearly don’t fully understand what they’re supposed to be regulating…and let’s face it, it could be suggested that most of them work for the FSA because they can’t get a proper job in the financial sector and this is the next best option (I wouldn’t suggest that personally, but hey…).
The problem seems to lie with the fact that these people, instead of being selfless and helping people, are in it for their own benefit and no regard for the impact on other people, and many, many people are now quite rightly sick of it.
I’m afraid that Politics and all the quangos such as the FSA are all tarred with the same brush, and it smells pretty disgusting from where I am.
May 15th, 2009 at 11:53 am
I read somewhere that Tony Bliar had claimed £296,000 in interest on a £30,000 mortgage, is he too going to repay this? or will he get his wife to defend his actions in court for not repaying it?
May 15th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
How could the Blairites a few years ago afford several London properties and 2 Bath Buy To Let properties on their income? Do we report suspected mortgage fraud or what? Didn’t C & G advance the main mortgage?
May 15th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Why are we so suprised? And why are we only looking at them returning the over draw on expenses, why are we not looking at reclaiming the assets to which the claims are attached?
Mr Blair afterall had built up a significant property portfolio on the merger salary of a Prime Minister!!
Why stop at just their expenses,MP’s and all public sector workers receive “guaranteed” retirement packages funded again by the tax payer, why havent they switched schemes to defined contribution/money purchase schemes in line with the rest of the country? This in turn will help fund the huge debt that the tax payer now has to face as yet another price to pay in bailing out the greed and avrice of the banking world.
The only public sector employees deserving of guarnted retirement packages in my view are the Armed Forces, Nurses/health workers , Fireman and Police.
Enough is enough!
May 16th, 2009 at 8:25 am
I just Googled Bliar & £296k, it reveals a lot about C&Gs lending policy! Apparently he bought a Connaught Square property with a 5% deposit and a £3,467,500 mortgage, which was more than 18 times his salary at the time, and has always been surrounded in mystery. The house took the couple’s mortgage commitments to £4 million, which included the Durham property, and two flats in Bristol, one of which has since been sold.
He must have known what kind of income he was going to get when he escaped the PM role before the shite hit the fan.
I expect we paid through his expenses for his “gurus” too!
I just wish the propeties had crashed in price while he had them! although if C&G had foreclosed, we as taxpayers would have had an even bigger bill for irresponsible lending wouldn’t we?