MPS CLAIM SHORT OF PARLIAMENT WORK

This is an incredible but true statement that MPs have not enough work. There was never so many problems and the Tory Government’s constant cuts would surely amount to a huge workload yet the MPs complained they have not enough to do. The workload at their constituency is a  different matter.

They are at Parliament only 152 days a year as it is. Yet they got a 10 per cent pay rise. All the expenses are paid by the hard-up taxpayers and it costs £4million for catering. Two or Three years ago it was suggest that the House of Lords' catering should join the House of Commons' catering but the Lords refused with the reason the champagne is not as good as in their catering. Talking about spitting the hard-up, starving and homeless people in the face.   

During the Cameron’s coalition, they had already ‘light work’ but now under PM May they have even less to do. David Cameron was known for domination and centralisation around him and his Cabinet.

Accordingly, the report in the Daily Express the Theresa May administration is so busy with Brexit that there is very little else done.  Apparently, all Parliamentary Bills are help back. At the same times they point out that there is plenty of constituency work still on.

Their ‘lazy days’ might be soon over when the Supreme Court decides the legal challenge to the PM May’s power to formally start Brexit. It has already been planned an all-night sitting to rush Brexit through the House of Common and Lords.

It will be the most historical sitting and debates of centuries.

However, it is feared it could also amount to a lot of mischief-making by MPs who have very little else to do or some who are too powerful.

Downing Street aides stated “The Prime Minister does have radical policy ideas that will mean substantial measures coming before Parliament”.

PM May plans are to build a country that works for everyone and will require ambitious reforms to promise greater social mobility and break down class barriers.  Haven’t we heard these words before but hopefully it will come true this time.

The Parliament will re-open with a major speech about social reforms on Monday, 9 January, 2017. However, her team is nervous about the narrow Tory majority in the Commons. Now there is an admission! The team fears they would make it impossible to pass controversial measures through.

In view of the total financial crisis in the NHS and Labour Leader Jeremy Corby demanding from Mrs May definite plans which stops the break-up of the NHS it does not look to be a dull, boring Parliament sitting.

Surely, to put the NHS back on its feet again and not just batch it up for a couple of months would give the MPs enough work to get their teeth in. Then there are the starving and homeless people.

This country is so run-down by Cameron and the Tories that it is hard to understand the MPs mourn about not having enough work even if he Cabinet shuts down but if they receive bulks of letters eventually they will and must react.

DAILY EXPRESS

AFTERMATH HIGH COURT DECISION ON BREXIT Udate 24 Jan., 2017

Update 24 Jan., 2017 -- The Court decided that Parliament has to vote on it but PM May said that they had the Brexit papers already prepared just in case. Therefore it will not be delayed and Article 50 will be triggered on 1 April. The majority of Conservative MPs will vote on it and so will Labour. Some of the smaller parties said they will vote against and delay it but it will not have any impact. Then it goes up to the House of Lords and they want some amendments but they too promise not to delay it.

Update 19 Jan., 2017 --
The High Court of Justice will announced, next Tuesday 24 Jan., 2017, whether the Government's Brexit will be stopped or not or MPs will vote on it. PM May stated that she can evoke Article 50 any way. Labour Party already announced that it will not vote against Government Brexit. 

UPDATE:  PM May put an appeal in and the next hearing is on 5 December, 2016. It is the Remain campaigners which cause the trouble and it is a further hold-up and more money wasted. They are hoping to change public's mind to remain in EU.

The aftermath of the High Court of Justice's decision on Brexit has only began.  The High Court decided that MPs should have a vote on it.

However, it is doubtful the campaigners, who took it to the High Court, did not think the implication fully through . No doubt they must have realised it will have an impact but now the Pound has increased and the FTSE is falling.

Before the referendum vote the Pound was $1.5 and the FTSE 5,500 and minus daily.

After the majority of people voted for Brexit the Pound was falling which was good for export and the FTSE was increasing to over 7000.

Although the continuing falling Pound started to worry the City but surely it would have levelled out soon.

The increase of the FTSE started to improve the economy and would have encourage manufacturing which meant more jobs.

In view of that these campaigners who took it to the High Court did not the UK a great favour.

Although PM May tries to calm the explosive situation the  danger is that MPs would vote for Bremain since there was already a drum beating for changing people's mind after the referendum.

If that would be the case, it not only goes against the people's will but also the EU, as promised, will send a tsunami of new restrictive rules.

The £19billion a year membership and a number of other demanded extras will continue. Money which could bring the highest deficit since 67 years down and also benefit the NHS and Welfare.

For whatever reasons these campaigners took it to the High Court ; it unsettled the UK again and is not encouraging foreign investors.

POLITICIANS NOT SAFE IN DEMOCRACY NOT TODAY

It is a very sad day when MP Jo Cox died because she believed in democracy and was also fighting for migrants. RIP. It is very sad if a 41 year old lady gets gunned down and stabbed several times. What has this society come to?

This event raises a string of question about the safety of politicians. At the House of Parliament they are safe without a doubt because of security checks and armed police.

One fact weighs heavily against democracy at the present. If you have democracy you got to have a strict and just Justice. At the moment it does not exists. Drug dealers, burglars, rapists and paedophiles get mostly a warning after umpteenth convictions and if they get a prison sentence it will be halved to a few months. Murderers get life but life means 15, 20 or 25 years and on good behaviour will be reduced.

If they can claim a mental health problem, some do have and some claim they did not know what they were doing in that moment, they go into a mental secure hospital like most probably this murderer will. But his action of building a gun does not show he did not know what he was doing. Therefore the Justice needs a real wake-up and the Government to stop closing down prisons especially with a situation we have at moment. People seem to kill for the least reason.

The danger lurks when they are in their own constituencies. A survey revealed that 43 MPs out of 239 were victims of actual or attempted attacks.

This is an unacceptable situation when a MP cannot voice their opinion and fight for other people without being attack by somebody who does not agree with it.

The question is how to protect them? In short it is impossible. MPs are constantly exposed at the street or when they keep surgeries. They have to meet the public constantly.

The only idea which the Common authorities could come up with to have an aide with them when they have the surgery meeting. A Panic button which connects them direct to the Police and MI5 would also give them some protection.

All in all it has come to a terrible state in having a democracy and not being able to protect its politicians totally. Due to a number of movements the freedom which the previous generation knew is going to disappear slowly but definitely. It is exactly what these various groups want to strike fear and rule by fear.

Finally, the conclusion is that British democracy means MPs will not be safe anymore. Even democracy itself becoming doubtful the ways the Government is overruling all the time and Brussels is ruling more and more the UK.

Source Evening Standard

GREAT EXPENSE SCANDAL FROM 2008 STILL EXISTS - Update 4 Feb., 2018

No cutting back there!? !? !? But cuts in the NHS and Welfare.  PM May show your "Equal Society!!!!!! She even granted the MPs a 10 pc rise for 2017.

Update 4 Feb., 2018 -- It shows only one of the Tories and the others are no different. It shows and proves the Expense Scandal still exists. It is also the reason for them to stick together because if Labour comes in their gravy train would grind to a standstill immediately. The same goes for all the fatcats.  NO CUTS -- NO AUSTERITY THERE.

In 2008 a great expense scandal broke lose where MPs claimed either excessive sums of money or for work like a duck house in their garden or cleaning out a moat. The claims were so outrages or ludicrous that it shook the foundation of the House of Commons. 

Voters could not belief their MPs would rip them off to such an extent and at the same time voted themselves a payrise of 10 per cent every year.

A promise was made after the explosive discovery that such grant fiddle will never happen and books will stay open and transparent.

However, looking back nothing has changed. MPs are still claiming incredible sums for dining and entertaining MPs or foreign visitors like the Speaker of the House, Mr Bercow or MPs using chauffeur driven limousine for a trip just down the road or one MP to be taken to the theatre making it wait for four hours while she watch an opera.

MPs voted to abandon the practice for the Speaker naming a MP who has been arrested for fraud or other crimes.

It seems that the cover is being drawn across again and the promise of transparency conveniently forgotten. Despite of several scandals of high expense claims made headlines in the press.

Expense Scandal seems like a volcano. At the moment it is quietly retreating into the murky dark corner of Westminster. Now and then a little blob occurs of some MP overspends again while it starts building up the pressure. Then there will be another explosion. 

Yet at the time of the explosion it is revealed that the Expense Scandal had been going on for years despite of the Audit Department going through every year. There are other departments there purely to watch that the expenses are not getting out of hand and we still hear of Expense Scandals like a dinner costing £2,000 for Mr Bercow; £250 for a chauffeur driven limousine to the Opera House; £250 for a chauffeur driven limousine to be taken to a dinner at Buckingham Palace, waiting and taken back home..

There seems be no moral of spending taxpayers’ money while over 1,000 food banks are across the country to keep people from starvation.

ENDLESS GREED OF UK MINISTERS -- Updated: 20 June, 2015

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT 

UPDATED: 20 June, 2015 --
The latest news: MPs stand for a further pay rise of 10 per cent. Yet, the Prime Minister David Cameron turned down the 1 per cent pay rise for nurses.

Ian Duncan Smith, head of the Dept of Work and Pensions will cut Welfare by £12billlion.

UPDATE: 8 September, 2014 -- A year on it had been agreed that the MPs should get 9 per cent increase. Yet, it is the MPs who vote for freezing the wages, cutting benefits, budgets of councils and NHS but when it is about their pocket not a vote against their own salary increase. There goes another promise of PM David Cameron to reduce the cost of the Parliament. Has he ever fulfilled one of his promises?

It is barely a month ago when the Ministers of Parliament (MPs) insisted on a £7,500 pay rise to their more than adequate yearly salaries of £65,000 plus their various form of expenses. Expenses for which ordinary people have to pay out of their wages.

Now they demand a £20,000 expense perk.  This means a flat rate, tax-free allowances for food and second home costs.  Furthermore, they want the payment without any receipts or filling out an expense form.  They must be living on another plant to demand a £20,000 expense allowance, tax-free and no receipts to prove it. This sneaky, not so clever idea came about because a number were caught out putting down expenses which had nothing to do with their work and were heavily fined or even imprisoned.  Do they know that £20,000 is a high wage these days for ordinary people, in spite of having to pay quite a large sum of National Insurance and Tax?

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The rise of salaries were agreed to compensate for the loss of expenses. Therefore, it shows their full audacity and attitude at a time of austerity supposed on ordinary people and living now in great poverty, to demand now after it was all set and done a £20,000 flat-rate for expenses.

Aren’t we all pleased to read the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow suggested the change over from the present expense system to a single allowance?  He also forwarded a letter to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority who regulates the MPs’ pay.  Mr Bercow pointed out further that 17 out of 20 do not claim expenses purely to avoid the hassle of filling in forms and provide receipts.  Unbelievable!

Matthews Sinclair, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “It would be completely unacceptable for MPs to enjoy a tax-free allowance with no scrutiny whether the money is spent on legitimate expenses and not transparency over if it amounts to anything more than a top-up for their already substantial pay.”

He points out further that it would undermine Parliament while there is a freeze on public wages.  Many taxpayers would see it as a stitch-up.

Wouldn’t it be a shock for the MPs having to pay for their own ‘sandwiches’ and the Lords who get £300 a day when they are sitting. In spite of it all the taxpayers have to pay for their ‘lunches’ which amounts to a staggering £65,000 per week. We can reveal it is not beans of toast or fish fingers and there after all over 750 Lords.  On all these extra costs not a word of cutting back and about austerity.  There again a Lord who is a multi-millionaire anyway and still receives a £300 a day surely could and should pay for his own lunch. If it would be implemented it would rock the foundation of the House of Parliament more than Guy Fawkes could have ever achieved.

Although the proposed pay rise of £7,500 agreed on but it would only come into effect after the 2015 election.  All three party leaders have rejected it which is most surprisingly.

It wouldn’t be a surprise if they get it granted after all. So far we have never seen a proposal of that kind turned down.

At the moment the Government is ruling beyond any belief.

CAMERON'S IN/OUT REFERENDUM ON EU -- Updated 1 June, 2016

PM DAVID CAMERON

UPDATED: 1 June, 2016 --
Vote for the IN/OUT of EU is on 23 June, 2016 and already scandals appear that non-British people have received voting cards. Is it a slip-up or not. Can we have one guess?

UPDATED: 22 May, 2015 -- Well, the voters fell for it again and hopefully for all our sake Cameron will deliver this time. Time will tell.

UPDATE: 16 February, 2015 - - There are definitely great changes on the way. PM David Cameron promised now to bring the referendum forward to 2016, Ian Duncan Smith, head of the Department of work and Pensions, found all the right keys on his I.T. to set up the promised Universal Credit and is able to pay the people their due money in only a few months' time. Banks and Corporations start paying their taxes and the Treasury already received hundreds of thousands of pounds. Will the voters fall for this again? Hopefully not. Remember 2010!

UPDATE: 22 December 2014 -- The referendum on IN/OUT of the EU being amended and the Labour Party demands more amendments. Details are not given to the public. The major issue is, in the public eye, that David Cameron promised in his election manifesto in 2010 he would give the people of Britain a referendum if he won the election. It could have been a major point for people putting their mark in the wrong box. As you can see his promises were never met. 

Now it is 2017 by which he is hoping to be elected again. Would the public fall for another promise which might or most probably might not be kept again?  In General the public had the worst austerity and nothing but false promises. It might change now because the election is coming closer.

UPDATE:  22 June 2013 --  David Cameron put now an IN/OUT referendum to the vote of House of Commons MPs. The many stages are called reading and the first reading of IN/OUT was almost unanimously voted for OUT. The second reading for 2017 was turn down by the majority. Everybody demands it now and had been demanding it for long time. David Cameron dragged it out and now it is too late for passing it through the various stages to be effective before the general election in 2015. It was nothing but a election stunt and Cameron thought he could get away with it.Now he will sign another treaty for seven years throwing tens of billions of pounds to an EU which nothing but squanders money by the millions and billions. Well done Mr Cameron.

UPDATE:  4 April 2013 -- Does David Cameron really still believes he can retrieve the power from Brussels or is he only trying to blind the public to stretch the time till he can sign for another seven years? The public is up in arms and wants out because of the money wasted in 

At long last David Cameron announced his true intention of not having an in/out referendum on EU. It was revealed during the PRIME MINISTER QUESTION TIME.

The House of Commons has a rule of having a Prime Minister Question time in Parliament where he has a duty to be accountable to the British People when he is questioned by MPs. The Speaker of Commons points at the MP who had raised his/her hand and is then allowed to put his/her question forward.  Prime Ministers can be evasive but still have to answer the question.

Mr Cameron did not comply with this rule when asked by the Labour MP Chris Bryant about the links between Downing Street and Mr Murdoch. Mr Cameron’s answer was that until he receives an apology for accusation he will not answer the question. This was against the rules of the Parliament but Mr Cameron, not so surprisingly, got away with it because the Speaker John Bercow did not call David Cameron out of order and made him answer the question. 

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It was totally out of order because the very name Prime Minister Question Time says it all and is part of democracy.

Then Labour MP Natasha Engel put the question to Mr Cameron that Education Secretary Michael Gove stated if there would be a referendum on in/out of EU, he would vote to leave.  She asked the Prime Minister how he would vote.

This time Mr Cameron answer was that he does not want an in/out referendum because he is not happy to leave the EU. At long last Mr Cameron speaks his true intention as before he was hedging all the time.  No wonder the press calls him ‘Dodgy Dave’.  A Prime Minister is there to state openly his intention and inform the public. And not dodging and diving, thinking the public does not see it.

He has done the same with signing papers granting Scotland the right for an in/out referendum of the United Kingdom. Soon after that he stated that he does not want Scotland to leave which is completely contradictory.  Deep down he does want Scotland to leave because there is the majority of Labour voters which would or could dip the scale in the next general election.

Regarding the EU Mr Cameron stated further that he thinks the majority of the public wants a new settlement with the EU. The new settlement will be in a referendum put to the people to vote on. It will also be put into his next manifesto. Mr Cameron safe yourself for both, the time and paper. As he so arrogantly put it that the ‘majority’of people will not vote on either of it.

Mr Cameron also enlightened the public that he intends to put it into his manifesto which is  a pledge to seek  to negotiate the repatriation of significant powers from Brussels. This will be followed by a new referendum to choose between the “new deal” and the status quo. However, there will be no mentioning of in/out of the EU on the pallet papers.

Doubtfully these pledges and promises would stop the Tories’ MPs migrating to the UKip who are determined about the in/out vote.  Mr Cameron still thinks that he can smokescreen with fine words and pledges. The public never seen one pledge fulfilled from the last election manifesto. Also the words to pledge to seek negotiation to repatriate powers from Brussels are to thin to be believed.  Mr Cameron seems to be turning more and more into a man who convinces himself during his speeches and feels full of pride about having delivered a great speech but as they say "action speaks louder than words".

UK MPS IN LANDLORDS' RACKET - UPDATED 22 May, 2015

UPDATED: 22 May, 2015  --  In my opinion nothing had been done to stop this racket which cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds. Most of them are friends of Cameron and therefore a blind eye is turned towards it

UPDATE:  23 July 2014 -- As always when one scandal gets overtaken by other news the first one dies a natural death and sure enough nothing had been done apart from promises that they will stop renting. This again Mr Cameron and his Cabinet failed in their leadership to see the matter effectively through.
  

UPDATE 20 OCTOBER 2012  --- The latest news on the subject is that the MPs could (please note the word - could) be banned from renting homes from each other. The Parliamentary Watchdog promised to look into it and closing the loophole. It is amazing when their is a scandal there is always a Labour MP being pointed at. Although being Labour and for what it should stand for it is twice as wrong.


Already the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority indicated that MPs will still be allowed to claim rent at the same time as they letting their property to other tenants. So far 27 MPs had been found out to claim rent and letting their property to others. Apparently they also moved out of their homes into rented accommodation when the rules changed and they were not being able to claim for mortgage interest. 

A new revelation of MPs furthering their income is they are renting out their property to their own colleagues. Herewith they have a guaranteed income, the MPs who renting the property claiming it on their expenses and the taxpayer pays for it. This method ensures that the owners eventually ends with a well provided nest-egg not to say that these properties are most properly top of the list.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is planning to expose the MPs Owners of the properties.  To be sure nothing was done so far and most probably nothing will be done.
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The Common Speaker John Bercow was totally against the disclosure for the reason of security and privacy of the MPs. Good story. In his letter to the IPSA chairman Sir Ian Kennedy he warned that the MPs have great concern to disclose the details under the freedom of information laws. He pointed out further that this could lead to a great security risk.

On the other hand the Security minister Mr Brokenshire voiced his opinion that if there is any wrong doing it should definitely be investigated.

Labour MP John Mann added that he has no problem with MPs renting out properties but the public is entitled to know.

Another revelation of which most of the people didn’t know or think about it. For the MPs it is not a bad little scheme to built-up a property empire through claiming it on expenses which again comes out of the taxpayers’ pocket.  The MPs certainly never miss a trick to fill their pockets. 

David Cameron should stop their expenses' claim as a measure of austerity. Especially now since they have a  great salary's increase besides they so many other incomes from non-executive directors to untold shares in various companies. Nobody can claim their rent, energy expenses and petrol on taxes yet everybody does their job so why the MPs are an exception?  When they go to meetings all expenses are paid for anyway by the people who organised it.

IF YOU THINK  ABOUT IT, IT IS A LEGAL SWINDLE AND THE TAXPAYERS HAVE TO PAY.

PM CAMERON CUTS DISABLED BENEFITS WATCHING PARALYMPICS

Referring back to the plan of cutting disability benefits which is already quietly in action brings it even more into focus during the Paralympics. Disabled people, even if they don’t compete in the Paralympics, deserve nothing but admirations. How they are cope in the very ordinary life to get through the day being handicapped in one way or another. Therefore, they should get best benefits which is available and it must available because money is not cut but increased for Foreign aids, sending army into another civil war which has nothing to do with the UK, bail-outs every year on top of EU contributions and wrong expenses paid to MPs and ex-Prime Ministers.  The worst and it is the highest, is the £500,000 paid for expenses to Margaret Thatcher. She doesn’t attend any meeting because she got dementia.  How dare the government be so callous with the taxpayers’ money and at the same time cut benefits to disabled people and pensioners?

THAT IS WHERE AUSTERITY SHOULD START AT CUTTING FOREIGN AID, BAIL-OUTS, EX-PM PENSIONS AND EXPENSES.

Now I am coming to my main point. The Paralympic with the Opening Ceremony was even better than the Olympics. It was heartbreaking to see these athletes with their various disabilities and yet they looked so eager and smiling all the way. Already what they achieved in the Opening Ceremony was fantastic leave alone the following competitions in various sports aiming for gold, silver or bronze.

It went to every one heart how great these athletes are to overcome such tremendous difficulties.

Yet, how can David Cameron sit there plus other government official and watch these people knowing very well what they done to them? It is beyond any understanding. David Cameron and his friends live in greatest luxuries from a start. Never have any money problems or worries but making out they know what it is like furthermore trying to convince the public. How can David Cameron be so unscrupulous and even state: “The Olympics made us proud but this will make us even prouder?” It is certainly beyond any ordinary people’s understanding and unforgivable.

UK's MPs INSULTED WORKERS -- Updated: 6 June,2015

UPDATED: 6 June, 2015 -- The Tories had been re-elected despite their terrible track records and as a majority, only 12 seats. Now they have the full power and it most probably will be worse. Already plans for anti-strikes laws, selling the Royal Mail's properties, cutting Welfare by £12billion, Public servicing by £16billion, introducing fracking and the most probably sold off like British Petroleum to foreign bidders and so on.

It most probably be worse now since they have the full power and wore will come to the public. The Elite will increase by numbers and wealth.

Again MPs  pointed the fingers at unemployed people stating too many people prefer to stay in bed rather than get a job. On which planet are these MPs living?

The Tory-led Coalition for ever cutting work forces and there is a 2.5million unemployment. Admittedly there is always a certain number of unemployable but not all of the 2.5million.

Furthermore, to compare British workers with Asia is not very clever because it is a complete different way of life and working there.

The only good thing might come out of these offensive and inaccurate accusations are that the pressure might bring David Cameron away from playing computer games as it was revealed and make him kick-start the economy.

Apparently the root of all these talks lays with Lord Mayor of London Boris Johnson. He advised David Cameron to stop “pussyfooting around” and bring a big infrastructure projects, de-regulation and tax cuts.

 This advice makes sense, does it?.

They further accused Labour and yet Labour had about 1.5million at the time of the credit crunch where really the bottom fell out of the economy but by the time the Coalition took over Mr Brown got the GDB up to 1 per cent which quickly sank and by now has a double-dip recession with the mismanagement of the Coalition.

To cut constantly the Armed forced, Nurses and Civil servants while at the same time increasing taxes does not work in any economy.

Furthermore, David Cameron gave three or four major contracts to European Countries and therefore companies had to cut workforce. The Union was fighting hard to prevent it but the government in their arrogant way took no notice. 

The MPs should look at themselves when they call the British workers the idlers of the world. They themselves don’t look over-worked and underpaid. Especially with adding more expenses which should not be added or don’t exists.  A 33 weeks a year working in Parliament is not exactly killing themselves for the country.

Have they got legislation through about regulating the banks again? NO.  They talk about it all the time of the high bonuses and David Cameron promised in his election manifesto, he promised March 2011, he promised for September 2011, he promised twice this year to get it through. Of course, he would not dare because they are all the boys who donate to the Conservative party and his friend who get invited to garden party in Downing Street.

Has David Cameron made any attempt to retrieve the taxes from £39trillion in tax havens? He himself talks about it but does nothing again because they are the boys who donate.

These are hypocritical standards by the Tory-led Coalition.  Yet, to call hard working Britons to be the idlers of the world is so ludicrous and if it were not so insulting and hurtful one could laugh. These people are going through hell and high water to keep going.  Something a MP would know nothing about it.  The unemployed are trying more than their best to get employment but if the government can't provide enough jobs what can the ordinary workers do? There are student coming out of Universities with a string of top qualification and they applying to every place they can think off but can't get a job. It is so bad that many don't bother any more to go to the University they don't see the point to get into debts and can't get employment.

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Therefore it is no good pointing at Indian children aiming to be doctors or lawyers when the government cutting the NHS to pieces.

Get your facts right first before you open your mouth just to be noticed because that is really what you are after to further your career.

Instead of criticising the workers it would more appropriate if the Coalition would work harder to bring back economic grows. It can be done with job creation and not with austerity. 

UK PARLIAMENT BREAKS EVEN LONGER

The Members of Parliament (MPs) have even a longer holiday than the Queen. They are now on break till the 3 September. Then they come back for two weeks and go on a party conference season which will last till 15 October. Admittedly many work at home in their constituency

Not to mention about the special long break for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

The House of Commons will sit only for 151 days this year. This will be down from the previous year of 157. David Cameron sends MPs even one day earlier this year and it is assumed that he tried to avoid a revolt.

To rub salt into the wounds Home Secretary Theresa May told the public to stop moaning and work harder after this government produced a double-dip recession. Coming from her is even worse after all the plunders she made and still keeps her job.

William Hague also joined the insulting remarks by repeating Norman Tebbit’s infamous advice to the jobless “Get on their bikes.” In other words he told the jobless people to tour the globe. You couldn’t get more insulting, could you? Of course, somebody sitting all their life in a fat pot they wouldn’t know what it means not having a job or money.

The Foreign Secretary added further “It’s getting on a plane, go and sell overseas, go and study overseas. It is much more than getting on a bike. A bike won’t get that far. There is only one growth strategy – work hard.”

The Community Secretary Eric Pickles said: “Government can’t create growth, only the condition for growth. We are only to do this if we all work harder.”

Referring to this last ‘advice’ the government knows how to cut and reduced growth. Therefore it must know, or should know, how to create it.

Furthermore to the useless advice from William Hague; he should know because he was selling weapons to Argentina till April and only stopped because Argentina threatened to take the oil companies to court if they start drilling in the Falklands. To get on a plane takes money. To sell successfully abroad you have to have good contacts and with every country in the recession nobody wants to know about buying from abroad.

With all due respect but when you are in the government and represent the people which are from a different class and life you should know what’s it all about before you give advice. All these pathetic remarks and shallow advices people can do without. It also doesn’t show a great leadership of the government.

DEPORTING FOREIGN CRIMINALS

Since every country has its own fair share of criminals it doesn’t want foreign criminals as well. So why is a country like Britain not allowed to deport them?

According to the statistics around 4,000 foreigners who committed crimes in this country can’t be deported. This high number not only is a danger to the country in committing crimes again but also very costly because they mostly live on benefit including their families.

Further information was revealed that about 1,500 foreigners are imprisoned every month. This again puts a strain on the prison service as well as cost on benefit. Out of the 1,500 only 375 are deported when they finished their sentences. It is also reported that one criminal escaped nine times and cost and effort were spent to catch him again.

Everybody, including MPs, wants a foreign criminal deported the moment the sentence is served. As a matter of fact it would even safe a lot of time and money to deport the person the moment he/she is convicted of a crime. The moment the person commits a crime all the appeals and privileges should be taken away. That person does not acknowledge or appreciate the better life style in this country. Why should a person have to right to appeal against deportation? The abused the law in this country. They know fully well that they are in a foreign country and therefore should abide by the law.

The worst interfering body is the Human Rights Court. Yet, France and Italy are deporting them and defying the decision of HRC why doesn’t Britain? When they defy the decision they have to pay a few hundred pounds which would justify it by saving benefits.

The government is forever calling for austerity but they will not safe money where it should be saved.