Showing posts with label parliament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parliament. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 January 2017

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

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

LEAKED LETTER TORIES MISLEADING PARLIAMENT Update 25 May, 2017

Update 25 May, 2017 --
"Misleading Parliament is the highest constitutional crime" would also apply to the cover-up of the failed Trident test, by PM May, just before the MPs' vote on the Trident's missile programme.

North-east Somerset MP Jacob Rees-Mogg demands an inquiry into the accusation of Prime Minister was plotting with the boss of Serco, Rupert Soames, Churchill's grandson,  for the UK to remain in the EU. It was dated 11 February which was before Mr Cameron had finished his renegotiating campaign.

Mr Rees-Mogg branded it "all outrageous" and "a real scandal". It supposed to have been plotted between Mr Soames and Mr Cameron.

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Apparently if it is true "Parliament was misled". He added further: "Misleading Parliament is the highest constitutional crime.

"So if it can be proved this has happened, of course anyone has to go if they've mislead Parliament. It is a basic principle of the constitution."

Mr Rees-Mogg pointed to the Profuma Affair in the 1963 which brought down the Harold MacMillan's government It was not because Profuma had an affair but he misled Parliament.

"And I think we need an inquiry to find out what whether this was going on, we need to see the emails from David Cameron."

In my opinion that is where the saga ends. David Cameron and Downing Street will do anything to prevent the emails been given. Has the David Cameron not already prevented his emails between Brooks and himself to be included from the phone-hacking inquiry.

Has David Cameron not recently changed the independent inquiry into Anti-Semitism into an inquiry in front of MPs which is pointless because it will influenced by politics.

Has he not also denied being involved in the Panama Scandal but then admitted it when his father was named.

UKip leader said: " I think increasingly in this referendum campaign he is looking like Dishonest Dave.


Prime Minister quoted: "he ruled nothing out in terms of how the renegotiation went, then three months later he tells us that if we leave it will cause World War III.


"He clearly has been less than honest with virtually everybody including the House of Common."


Boris Johnson commented: "This is the biggest stitch-up since Bayeux Tapestry."


Mr Johnson fumed further: "It stinks to high heaven. FTSE100 chiefs are seeing their pay pocket soar while uncontrolled immigration is forcing down wages for British workers.


"Now we learn that some fat cats have been secretly agreeing to campaign for Remain while angling lavish Government contracts.


"It makes us look like a banana republic. Probably it is also now beyond a doubt that the so-called renegotiation was a fiction designed to bamboozle the public.


"It was a meaningless mime, a ritual, a kabuki drama in which the outcome was utterly preordained. This is not the far-reaching and fundamental reform we were promised.


"The only safe way to take back control of our borders and our democracy is to Vote Leave on 23 June."



Source Daily Express


Friday, 26 February 2016

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.

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

CHANCELLOR GEORGE OSBORNE READ WRONG BUDGET



First of all, his opening speech left already a lot of question. Chancellor George Osborne stated that the economy improved substantially and will improve even more.

The economic table in March showed a 0.3 per cent which was down from the forecast of 0.6 per cent and just about avoided a recession.

Furthermore, during the last three month the FTSE shows almost every day a minus and the value of shares have dropped by over £1,300.

Another statement he made was: “We are in this together.”  It was said the last time in 2010 and the result was an introduction of austerity in 2012 which brought the general public into starvation, relying on food banks and with Bedroom Tax people lost their homes. Some live in one room rented accommodation with their family or on the street.

At the same time of austerity the rich got super rich and even The Telegraph which combines the list was shocked.  There are now over 4,000 multi-millionaires and multi-billionaires in the UK and the highest number in the world according to the Telegraph.  
All created in the last three years.

That sentence: ”We are all in this together” was a lie in 2010 and it is a lie today. The gap between rich and poor was never so wide since the Victorian ages. To achieve that within three years; is it something to be proud of?

The austerity to balance the books was nothing but a con beside they added £500billion to the National debts.  Now again, they spoke of balancing the books and quite proudly to finish the job they started. Will there be more debts?

Newspaper The Guardian revealed that £93billion a year is given to businesses in huge subsidies and tax breaks. This fact is never mentioned in any Tory budget.

According to the Guardian it means £3,000 a year every household will lose out on.
Many companies received the largest public grants during the last five years of the Tory-led Coalition.  The same companies pay very little or no tax.

Yet, Chancellor George Osborne and Prime Minister are determined to cut the Welfare again and this time by a massive £12billion. Above all they announced joyfully, last Friday, they found the whole sum to be cut.

The Guardian analysis found that the companies received a £14,5billion in direct subsidies and grants which is more than the Welfare cuts of £12billion.

Although The Guardian is determined to find out where the real trouble lies they had to admit it is hard to trace because the money is channelled through many arms.

It also had been revealed that the incentives included the low corporation tax rate is the lowest anywhere in the G7, tax exemption for research and government support.
It also shows, while companies constantly increase to receive handout from the government their corporation tax is falling at the time.

During the financial year 2012-13 they received £58.2billion of subsidies grants and corporation tax benefits and during the same year they paid £41,3billion corporation tax.

The Prime Minister was talking about the merry-go-round where workers paid tax and then receive benefits because their income is too low. He planned to stop it and demand the companies to pay a higher wages.  Most probably the companies will then receive more incentives.

This budget was all for the rich and cutting even deeper into the poverty and disable people/

The fanfare was about the £9 per hour living wage but it will not be implemented fully till 2020.  I was nothing but put on a false show because people are desperate now to receive a proper wage to live on. Furthermore, by 2020 the cost of living will have risen as well, therefore it will not benefit.

It was noted that Ian Duncan Smith, head of the Department of Work and pensions, cheered and hopped about every time another cut in the Welfare was announced. The man is most disgraceful.

He handed £44millioom bonuses out last year even so he can not get his IT system going for the reform of the Universal credit. He also stopped any benefit he could find. It is estimated that over 1,000 people committed suicide or died of hunger because their benefit was stopped and there he was cheering and jumping at every announcement of a benefit cut.

He also forgot that he was up for fraud in 2006 when he claimed taxes and expenditure for his Wife’s company. The company did not exist. He got away because the MPs’ expenditure scandal broke lose and he somehow slipped through the net.


Sunday, 21 October 2012

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".

Thursday, 4 October 2012

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE -- Update 15 August, 2014



UPDATE 15 AUGUST, 2014 -- All those private companies which David Cameron already introduced made nothing but a mess. They try to work with a minimum staff to reach the highest profit for themselves and the shareholders. It is obvious the staff tries their best but can't cope. It is this breaking up the NHS for gaining shares in these private companies for the fat cats to receive more dividends because otherwise it does not make any other sense. These private companies are definitely show no improvements in service, on the contrary. 




The National Health Service was given to the people as a thank you for their incredible effort they made during World War 2. This government or coalition has no right to touch it. It is the people and for the people of this country.

there is every week a report in the papers that a private health firm is somewhere of the NHS and either can't cope with the amount of work or one sent thousands of medical reports to another private health firm without permission. It is also known that these contracts usually get signed after a contribution is given the Tory Party.

There is no doubt that most of the governments have worked that way to some extent but this Government takes it to the extreme and their coalition partners do not stand up and oppose this scandal. After Margaret Thatcher broken most of the top industries or privatised them like the gas, electricity and railway there is now only the NHS left which Margaret Thatcher tried to do the same but the revolt brought her down and made her resign. Now David Cameron seems to be hell bend to finish her diabolical work.

It is becoming more and more obvious that the Tory Party is not interesting in welfare of this country or its people but themselves. The very fact that there is always a contribution going into the coffers of the Tory Party proved it.

Furthermore, to spent £3million on a management consultancy which decides who to sack or whose wages are to be reduced. This money was spent by the Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust alone which must have been forced by the government to do so. Furthermore, it should have been done by the hospitals directors who get paid high wages and the public ask what are they doing and what are there for? It seems that on top there is directors and management consultants and a great deal of wasted money which could benefit the NHS.

Furthermore, the number of private companies operating there and in other government departments showed quite a number of scandals already. The company employ the minimum of staff and therefore are not able to cope with the jobs. The reason behind this to get the maximum profit for themselves and their share holders. 

I can only repeat what had been written above. The NHS was given to the people and it is the people's and not the government. They have no right to break it up. Are David Cameron and his friends really above the law that they can’t be touch and stopped than this is not a democracy?

Sunday, 19 August 2012

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.
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. 

Sunday, 5 August 2012

COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT CUTS 2012


It is said they are planning to cut the council tax benefits. This would hit around six million households with low-income. These households either have qualified for no paying or reduced paying council tax.  It will hit the poorest or poor,

The infamous Coalition demanded from the councils to reduce the benefit bills by 10 per cent. This will have to be found either be reducing their service or payouts to poor families.

The chief of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, thought it could be done by either taking 10 per cent off the council tax benefit which causes more hardship but it will even cause more problems for families who receive a 100 per cent council tax benefit.

Labour peer Baroness Hollis called it completely unfair.

The Tory MP Bob Neil on the other hand thought it would give the councils a chance to get people back to work.

Which planet does Mr Neil live on?  Apparently he has no idea what it means to live on a low income and therefore shouldn’t put out remarks like that. Furthermore, has he ever look out of his Parliamentary window and noticed there are no jobs available. There is unemployment of 2.5million and they are not all scam and skivers as those sitting in the fat think. The people they are withdrawing any benefits from in order to so-called “get them back to work” is another smokescreen to cut. There has been cases in the paper and quite a number of it where people with all sorts of qualifications and experiences have written and tenth or hundreds of applications to avail.

SO WHERE DOES THE TORY MP BOB NEIL LIVE?

Monday, 23 July 2012

CAMERON'S PLEDGE KEEP EU COSTS DOWN - Updated 8 June, 2015



UPDATED:  8 June, 2015 -- it is still  the same situation and yet the Tories were voted in again and even with a small majority. It does not make sense.  The FTSE is falling ever since therefore th economy has not improved as promised.

UPDATE: 11 Dec., 2013 -- The news came through, Mr Cameron agreed to pay another £10billion every year into the bottomless coffer of the EU because they are financially broke. Never mind about the broken UK economy and the poverty stricken British people who have to make a choice between buying food or heating their home. More money for the MEP who  use taxis to get from one city in Europe to the other right across. Who have higher salaries than the UK MP and more expense fiddles. Again the account was not signed and approved for 2012 because there was a discrepancy £95billion and went on for the tenth year. But gallant knight in shining armour has always money available for the EU, Foreign aid which never reaches the poor for which it is meant for and military conflicts. CAN ANYONE STILL BELIEVE ANY WORD HE SAID OR PROMISED?



There are nothing but unfulfilled pledges from the Prime Minister David Cameron.

This time the pledge was that he would keep the EU cost down.  He did nothing of the sorts and now the UK Taxpayers have to pay out £350million next year. This is an enormous amount for one country alone.

The facts are there will be an overall rise of 2.8 per cent in spending. This will mean that the amount the EU costs the countries is £108.7bilion. This is an incredible amount of money for the administration of the European Union. It is unbelievable that such vast amount of money has to be spending on it. There must be something more than meets the eye. It is well know that the EU members are living in top quality champagne, luxurious lunches and taxi rides no matter where. But surely it wouldn’t even add up to that amount.

Many of the Prime Minister's own Ministers of Parliament are livid that he could have missed and finally failed to cut the budget.

 Now there is where austerity should be applied and it would bring in more than cutting the benefits of pensioners, police or armed forces. Cutting Police and Armed Forces will only create unemployment which means social benefits’ payment. This is surely no saving.

A source remarked: “A Europe policy that this year sees an increase in EU spending is a sign of the Prime Minister’s weakness.”