They Work for You

[Grafenwalder]

This shows the opposite.

[Guest]

Bollocks! They work for themselves

[Text]

This shows the opposite.

Graffs, what Kwarteng & Hancock did was not illegal as such, MP's are allowed to take on extra work from overseas firms - in fact there's no limit on how much extracurricular work they can take on, from as many firms they like, for a fat fee.

But legal does not automatically mean ethical or moral !

That prank video made them look so sleazy & greedy. Which they certainly are.

If they had any decency they should have both quietly resigned.

[Text]

Bollocks! They work for themselves

This.

[ArchieG]

If only it wete just the tories, then we could vote the bastards out. But so many MPs have no morals, we’re a bit stuck. Are they like that before they’re elected, or is it just the temptation?

[Stooo]

If only it wete just the tories, then we could vote the bastards out. But so many MPs have no morals, we’re a bit stuck. Are they like that before they’re elected, or is it just the temptation?

They're like it before that and manage to hide it from the people who vote for them. I've been lucky to meet and talk to a few MPs (and even a former PM) over the years and most of them have been very nice and decent apart from our incumbent MP who fits the frame IMO.

[ArchieG]

I’ve met my MP, and actually know several members of his family. Don’t think he's been caught being dishonest, but still the only thing I agree with him on is Russia. The family are more amenable, he seemed to have little time to talk to non cronies.

[Grafenwalder]

If only it wete just the tories, then we could vote the bastards out. But so many MPs have no morals, we’re a bit stuck. Are they like that before they’re elected, or is it just the temptation?

The vast majority are Tories so remember to vote them out come election day. It's their brazen greed I find sickening and casual manner in which they arrive at a figure.

The vast majority of the £17.2m earned from second jobs since the last general election in December 2019 – £15.2m – went to Tory MPs, analysis found, “dwarfing the combined income of politicians who represent other parties”, said The Guardian. It means that while just 54% of MPs are Conservatives, they account for 89% of external income over the last three years.

By comparison, Labour MPs earned a combined £1.2m from outside work, while Liberal Democrat MPs took an additional £171,000 and SNP MPs banked £149,000.

https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/uk-news/ ... econd-jobs

[Stooo]

If only it wete just the tories, then we could vote the bastards out. But so many MPs have no morals, we’re a bit stuck. Are they like that before they’re elected, or is it just the temptation?

The vast majority are Tories so remember to vote them out come election day. It's their brazen greed I find sickening and casual manner in which they arrive at a figure.

The vast majority of the £17.2m earned from second jobs since the last general election in December 2019 – £15.2m – went to Tory MPs, analysis found, “dwarfing the combined income of politicians who represent other parties”, said The Guardian. It means that while just 54% of MPs are Conservatives, they account for 89% of external income over the last three years.

By comparison, Labour MPs earned a combined £1.2m from outside work, while Liberal Democrat MPs took an additional £171,000 and SNP MPs banked £149,000.

https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/uk-news/ ... econd-jobs

Wasn't a lot of the private income attributed to David Lammy and his three hours at a weekend on LBC?

How much has Dr Rosena Allin-Khan declared as earnings from her lucrative work as a junior doctor in A&E let alone the cash rich Ukrainian field hospitals? We should be outraged!

[Winnie Bago]

If only it wete just the tories, then we could vote the bastards out. But so many MPs have no morals, we’re a bit stuck. Are they like that before they’re elected, or is it just the temptation?

600 bags of sand and a luxury motor home are very tempting though aren’t they?

Money, the root of all evil.

[ArchieG]

If only it wete just the tories, then we could vote the bastards out. But so many MPs have no morals, we’re a bit stuck. Are they like that before they’re elected, or is it just the temptation?

600 bags of sand and a luxury motor home are very tempting though aren’t they?

Money, the root of all evil.

Don’t all 92 year old widows have motorhomes? And Murrell is innocent until proven guilty, so not suspended. Even the Tories suspend people who are investigated for financial shenanigans on that scale. Though obviously not for other serious criminal matters The SNP aren’t exactly covering themselves with glory here are they. Humza didn’t know the auditors had jacked it in, he says. I suppose Nicola didn’t know either.

[Guest]

If only it wete just the tories, then we could vote the bastards out. But so many MPs have no morals, we’re a bit stuck. Are they like that before they’re elected, or is it just the temptation?

600 bags of sand and a luxury motor home are very tempting though aren’t they?

Money, the root of all evil.

Don’t all 92 year old widows have motorhomes? And Murrell is innocent until proven guilty, so not suspended. Even the Tories suspend people who are investigated for financial shenanigans on that scale. Though obviously not for other serious criminal matters The SNP aren’t exactly covering themselves with glory here are they. Humza didn’t know the auditors had jacked it in, he says. I suppose Nicola didn’t know either.

I’m a bit suspicious now, one minute Nicola was being her usual confident self about the independence and self identification issues, then all of a sudden, right out of the blue, she decided to step down.
The auditor issue too would suggest there’s a lot of things, perhaps, yet to be discovered.
Allegations only for now, and innocent until proven guilty.
It’s a matter for police and we mustn’t judge until they’ve conducted their investigations.

[Guest]

If only it wete just the tories, then we could vote the bastards out. But so many MPs have no morals, we’re a bit stuck. Are they like that before they’re elected, or is it just the temptation?

600 bags of sand and a luxury motor home are very tempting though aren’t they?

Money, the root of all evil.

Don’t all 92 year old widows have motorhomes? And Murrell is innocent until proven guilty, so not suspended. Even the Tories suspend people who are investigated for financial shenanigans on that scale. Though obviously not for other serious criminal matters The SNP aren’t exactly covering themselves with glory here are they. Humza didn’t know the auditors had jacked it in, he says. I suppose Nicola didn’t know either.

I’m a bit suspicious now, one minute Nicola was being her usual confident self about the independence and self identification issues, then all of a sudden, right out of the blue, she decided to step down.
The auditor issue too would suggest there’s a lot of things, perhaps, yet to be discovered.
Allegations only for now, and innocent until proven guilty.
It’s a matter for police and we mustn’t judge until they’ve conducted their investigations.

What a scandalous waste of public money, it’s not at all good for the SNP…

“Ferguson Marine: Calls for public enquiry over £500m ferries bill
16th February”

“As news of Ms Sturgeon stepping down emerged, Jim Sillars, former deputy leader of the SNP said that she had presided over a "catalogue of failures" including that of the lifeline ferry fleet.

The amount of money pumped into the nationalised ferry delivery firm now exceeds the soaring costs of the Scottish Parliament building.

Early estimates before the referendum of 1997, that the Holyrood building would cost between £10m and £40m would become an embarrassment, as the iconic building ended up costing £414m.

READ MORE: 'Beyond scandalous': Ferry fiasco firm costs taxpayer nearly £500m...so far

Ministers have now overspent against the budget of Ferguson Marine to the tune of over £120m over the last three years alone in the wake of continuing delays in the production of the ferries being built to serve island communities. Their delivery has been put back been over five years in the wake of the soaring costs. It spent double the budget for Ferguson Marine in 2021/22 alone.

“The ferries fiasco is not just the biggest scandal of Nicola Sturgeon’s time in office – latest estimates show it’s set to trump the Scottish Parliament building as the most wasteful public spending project in the history of devolution.

“But this abject failure is about so much more than taxpayers’ money being squandered on an industrial scale.



https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/hom ... ries-bill/


The people of the Scottish islands are suffering because of this scandal.

[Grafenwalder]

If only it wete just the tories, then we could vote the bastards out. But so many MPs have no morals, we’re a bit stuck. Are they like that before they’re elected, or is it just the temptation?

600 bags of sand and a luxury motor home are very tempting though aren’t they?

Money, the root of all evil.

Don’t all 92 year old widows have motorhomes? And Murrell is innocent until proven guilty, so not suspended. Even the Tories suspend people who are investigated for financial shenanigans on that scale. Though obviously not for other serious criminal matters The SNP aren’t exactly covering themselves with glory here are they. Humza didn’t know the auditors had jacked it in, he says. I suppose Nicola didn’t know either.

I’m a bit suspicious now, one minute Nicola was being her usual confident self about the independence and self identification issues, then all of a sudden, right out of the blue, she decided to step down.
The auditor issue too would suggest there’s a lot of things, perhaps, yet to be discovered.
Allegations only for now, and innocent until proven guilty.
It’s a matter for police and we mustn’t judge until they’ve conducted their investigations.

What a scandalous waste of public money, it’s not at all good for the SNP…

“Ferguson Marine: Calls for public enquiry over £500m ferries bill
16th February”

“As news of Ms Sturgeon stepping down emerged, Jim Sillars, former deputy leader of the SNP said that she had presided over a "catalogue of failures" including that of the lifeline ferry fleet.

The amount of money pumped into the nationalised ferry delivery firm now exceeds the soaring costs of the Scottish Parliament building.

Early estimates before the referendum of 1997, that the Holyrood building would cost between £10m and £40m would become an embarrassment, as the iconic building ended up costing £414m.

READ MORE: 'Beyond scandalous': Ferry fiasco firm costs taxpayer nearly £500m...so far

Ministers have now overspent against the budget of Ferguson Marine to the tune of over £120m over the last three years alone in the wake of continuing delays in the production of the ferries being built to serve island communities. Their delivery has been put back been over five years in the wake of the soaring costs. It spent double the budget for Ferguson Marine in 2021/22 alone.

“The ferries fiasco is not just the biggest scandal of Nicola Sturgeon’s time in office – latest estimates show it’s set to trump the Scottish Parliament building as the most wasteful public spending project in the history of devolution.

“But this abject failure is about so much more than taxpayers’ money being squandered on an industrial scale.



https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/hom ... ries-bill/


The people of the Scottish islands are suffering because of this scandal.

Oooh, a ferry company with actual ferries. Thats different.

Failing Grayling squandered £2.7 BILLION of taxpayers money on crackpot failures including a non-existent ferry company with no ferries.....and he got promoted!!

[Guest]

Graf, you seem surprised that all of them, no matter what party they represent, all firstly get voted in with noble intentions to do right by their constituents.
Weirdly, they all seem to then become infected with greed once in power, it's amazing how they all lose their wanting to do good for many and turn to lining their own nest instead.
Mr £1 Meals is a classic example, what a cunt he is! His expenses claims are a complete and utter joke, and yet it is allowed
Personally, I think MP's should be paid more money and all expenses should be done away with because the current system is ridiculous and it panders to personal greed and is open to abuse.
Nicola's husband seems to have been infected with greed, the auditors are clearly in the crap, and it's the end of an illustrious career for Nicola, probably from no fault of her own, but I can't understand how she saw a £110,000 luxury motor home suddenly appearing on her mum in law's drive, and then sat there for over a year, as a bit suspicious. What would you think Graf?