Outing our overt overspending ocracy...

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Once again the Tax Payers' Alliance is doing a sterling service by highlighting the overt overspending of our Members of Parliament, those sent to represent the people, no really, stop sniggering at the back, that is what they are meant to do. 

This is not new, MPs and their hangers-on seem to be consumed with self-entitlement,  to claim back what most 'normal' people have to spend out of their own pockets (2nd mortgage, furniture, utility bills, TVs, donations to charities [i.e. poppies FFS!], and remember this has been going on for decades:  "ice cube tray, a fluffy duster, a toilet roll holder and tealights" [DT] and even porn!!!). What does your MP claim?  

The TPA have "revealed the average cost of an MP has increased by 29 per cent over the covid pandemic, from £157,747 in 2019-20 to £203,880 in 2020-21." 

Among the highlights is the astounding fact that the "average cost of an MP was £203,880". Remember this DOES NOT include their salary. [Full Report PDF] 

Britain’s most expensive MP was the member for Broxtowe, Darren Henry, with total spending of £280,936. Now, to not prejudge - oops too late - maybe he had set-up expenses, being a fairly new MP (2019) but Broxtowe is by Nottingham - not even half way up the country, and the M1 motorway runs through the constituency; it is between Derby and Nottingham mainline stations i.e. it is effing easy to get to London. In fact it is just a few stops up the same line as Kettering, the constituency of the least expensive MP, Philip Hollobone (£80,709. A full 200K less). Philip has CONSTANTLY been the lowest spender - or amongst the lowest - for as long as he has been an MP. 

Just as a reminder that MPs taking advantage of the pandemic and lockdown with a total spend of £132.5 million (up 4.6 per cent on previous years) is peanuts compared to - revealed last month - the [sadly unsurprising] news that there is " £17 billion estimated to be lost from unpaid business loans as any losses were guaranteed to be covered by taxpayers - that's 36 per cent of the entire scheme." [Bounce Back Loan Scheme PDF update].

Outing our overt overspending ocracy...

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Once again the Tax Payers' Alliance is doing a sterling service by highlighting the overt overspending of our Members of Parliament, those sent to represent the people, no really, stop sniggering at the back, that is what they are meant to do. 

This is not new, MPs and their hangers-on seem to be consumed with self-entitlement,  to claim back what most 'normal' people have to spend out of their own pockets (2nd mortgage, furniture, utility bills, TVs, donations to charities [i.e. poppies FFS!], and remember this has been going on for decades:  "ice cube tray, a fluffy duster, a toilet roll holder and tealights" [DT] and even porn!!!). What does your MP claim?  

The TPA have "revealed the average cost of an MP has increased by 29 per cent over the covid pandemic, from £157,747 in 2019-20 to £203,880 in 2020-21." 

Among the highlights is the astounding fact that the "average cost of an MP was £203,880". Remember this DOES NOT include their salary. [Full Report PDF] 

Britain’s most expensive MP was the member for Broxtowe, Darren Henry, with total spending of £280,936. Now, to not prejudge - oops too late - maybe he had set-up expenses, being a fairly new MP (2019) but Broxtowe is by Nottingham - not even half way up the country, and the M1 motorway runs through the constituency; it is between Derby and Nottingham mainline stations i.e. it is effing easy to get to London. In fact it is just a few stops up the same line as Kettering, the constituency of the least expensive MP, Philip Hollobone (£80,709. A full 200K less). Philip has CONSTANTLY been the lowest spender - or amongst the lowest - for as long as he has been an MP. 

Just as a reminder that MPs taking advantage of the pandemic and lockdown with a total spend of £132.5 million (up 4.6 per cent on previous years) is peanuts compared to - revealed last month - the [sadly unsurprising] news that there is " £17 billion estimated to be lost from unpaid business loans as any losses were guaranteed to be covered by taxpayers - that's 36 per cent of the entire scheme." [Bounce Back Loan Scheme PDF update].

Ordure! Ordure...

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With thanks to BOB for the perfectly appropriate cartoon.

Ordure! Ordure...

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With thanks to BOB for the perfectly appropriate cartoon.

Order out of oppressive oligarchic ordure II...

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Follow up to "Order must be maintained: Becow must be restrained" [LINK].



David Starkey: "the elite is guilty of treason...". We Know! [YouTube link] "Historian and broadcaster David Starkey speaks to Brendan O’Neill about the ‘lying, deceiving shits’ in the establishment." Please listen to it all.

Order out of oppressive oligarchic ordure II...

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Follow up to "Order must be maintained: Becow must be restrained" [LINK].

David Starkey: "the elite is guilty of treason...". We Know! [YouTube link] "Historian and broadcaster David Starkey speaks to Brendan O’Neill about the ‘lying, deceiving shits’ in the establishment." Please listen to it all.

Order out of oppressive oligarchic ordure...

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Order must be maintained: Becow must be restrained. He believes himself to be democratic and correct; he is wrong and he is a tyrant. "The only form of Brexit which we will have, whenever that might be,
will be a Brexit that the House of Commons has explicitly endorsed" he says, forgetting that both the referendum result and the overwhelming vote by MPs for the European Union Bill to implement Article 50 (by a massive 81% in favour) is that explicit endorsement, i.e. LEAVE.



Martin Sewell, writing on the blog of His Grace, on the button again: "The Legislature has become the Executive, and there is no mechanism to call them to account"



"The UK Constitution defines and defends the ‘separation of powers‘. When Labour introduced the Human Rights Act in 1998, strict adherence to that doctrine made us alter the ancient role of the Lord Chancellor..."



Now, the Bercow-led Evil Alliance (really in league with the Sith Order) of corrupt, partisan, pompous egotisical shysters have "stepped over an important line".

'The intent of separation of powers is to prevent the concentration of unchecked power by providing for “checks” and “balances” to avoid autocracy, over-reaching by one branch over another, and the attending efficiency of governing by one actor without need for negotiation and compromise with any other (Wikipedia).'

"That matters.

"What they did not do was pause to reflect on the full implications of such a constitutional shift. It has indeed brought in an autocracy, for those intent on having their own way cannot be required to submit to the people’s judgement even though a majority of parliamentarians voted for it. There are currently no checks and no balances. The Legislature has become the Executive and there is no mechanism to call them to account; they have blocked a general election. We have become an autocracy..."

 A General Election refused. A vote of no confidence refused.



"MPs ought to be reliable servants of the people. Currently they are not. A man cannot serve two masters. Members of Parliament cannot simultaneously be taking instructions on how they should act from the electorate and from their EU allies in Brussels."

"The risk to the country by shortsightedly trashing our constitutional settlement is infinitely more serious, and the prorogation period – however long it lasts – might usefully be spent considering whether this is wise and in the public interest".

This most definitely is Parliament vs. The People: the 2015 European Union Referendum Act gave the Leave/Remain
decision to the people; Parliament is stopping the government doing what it promised...we know where you live.



[my emphasis throughout]

Order out of oppressive oligarchic ordure...

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Order must be maintained: Becow must be restrained. He believes himself to be democratic and correct; he is wrong and he is a tyrant. "The only form of Brexit which we will have, whenever that might be, will be a Brexit that the House of Commons has explicitly endorsed" he says, forgetting that both the referendum result and the overwhelming vote by MPs for the European Union Bill to implement Article 50 (by a massive 81% in favour) is that explicit endorsement, i.e. LEAVE.

Martin Sewell, writing on the blog of His Grace, on the button again: "The Legislature has become the Executive, and there is no mechanism to call them to account"

"The UK Constitution defines and defends the ‘separation of powers‘. When Labour introduced the Human Rights Act in 1998, strict adherence to that doctrine made us alter the ancient role of the Lord Chancellor..."

Now, the Bercow-led Evil Alliance (really in league with the Sith Order) of corrupt, partisan, pompous egotisical shysters have "stepped over an important line".

'The intent of separation of powers is to prevent the concentration of unchecked power by providing for “checks” and “balances” to avoid autocracy, over-reaching by one branch over another, and the attending efficiency of governing by one actor without need for negotiation and compromise with any other (Wikipedia).'

"That matters.

"What they did not do was pause to reflect on the full implications of such a constitutional shift. It has indeed brought in an autocracy, for those intent on having their own way cannot be required to submit to the people’s judgement even though a majority of parliamentarians voted for it. There are currently no checks and no balances. The Legislature has become the Executive and there is no mechanism to call them to account; they have blocked a general election. We have become an autocracy..."

 A General Election refused. A vote of no confidence refused.

"MPs ought to be reliable servants of the people. Currently they are not. A man cannot serve two masters. Members of Parliament cannot simultaneously be taking instructions on how they should act from the electorate and from their EU allies in Brussels."

"The risk to the country by shortsightedly trashing our constitutional settlement is infinitely more serious, and the prorogation period – however long it lasts – might usefully be spent considering whether this is wise and in the public interest".

This most definitely is Parliament vs. The People: the 2015 European Union Referendum Act gave the Leave/Remain decision to the people; Parliament is stopping the government doing what it promised...we know where you live.

[my emphasis throughout]

Obvious oblectation; ominous obloquy

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Prorogation of parliament is entirely NORMAL!

"Prorogation... marks the end of a
parliamentary session. It is the formal name given to the period between the end of a session of Parliament and the State Opening of Parliament that begins the next session. The parliamentary session may also be prorogued before Parliament is dissolved."

[Added] Also, back in May 2019, well over a 100 days ago, "the current parliamentary session reached a striking landmark. It
became the longest session by sitting days since the English Civil War
(1642-51)" [House of Commons Library] !!



Obvious oblectation: 'She’s not "just a figurehead''. "Her Majesty The Queen is Britain’s final constitutional backstop... 



...Such authority is historically sound.

  

"A.V. Dicey wrote in 'The Law of the Constitution' (1885): "The House can in accordance with the constitution be deprived of power [when] there is fair reason to suppose that the opinion of the House is not the opinion of the electors."" 



"Edmund Burke noted: "The virtue, spirit, and essence of an House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a controul upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a controul for the people."" [Raheem Kassam]



It stuns me how ignorant and thick many of the UK's MPs are. You can understand the waily, shrieky, undemocratic, pathetic, sinister Remain shouty tossers not understanding, but our duly elected officials you would think understood. Nope. Dumb fucks of ALL parties shouldn't be anywhere near power.



Ominous obloquy: Intersetingly, on Raheem's own website, I found out for the first time that the recent G7 summit agreed a "hate speech charter" as if the current draconian thought crimes aren't enough. Was this reported in the UK?

Obvious oblectation; ominous obloquy

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Prorogation of parliament is entirely NORMAL!

"Prorogation... marks the end of a parliamentary session. It is the formal name given to the period between the end of a session of Parliament and the State Opening of Parliament that begins the next session. The parliamentary session may also be prorogued before Parliament is dissolved."

[Added] Also, back in May 2019, well over a 100 days ago, "the current parliamentary session reached a striking landmark. It became the longest session by sitting days since the English Civil War (1642-51)" [House of Commons Library] !!

Obvious oblectation: 'She’s not "just a figurehead''. "Her Majesty The Queen is Britain’s final constitutional backstop... 

...Such authority is historically sound.
  
"A.V. Dicey wrote in 'The Law of the Constitution' (1885): "The House can in accordance with the constitution be deprived of power [when] there is fair reason to suppose that the opinion of the House is not the opinion of the electors."" 

"Edmund Burke noted: "The virtue, spirit, and essence of an House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a controul upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a controul for the people."" [Raheem Kassam]

It stuns me how ignorant and thick many of the UK's MPs are. You can understand the waily, shrieky, undemocratic, pathetic, sinister Remain shouty tossers not understanding, but our duly elected officials you would think understood. Nope. Dumb fucks of ALL parties shouldn't be anywhere near power.

Ominous obloquy: Intersetingly, on Raheem's own website, I found out for the first time that the recent G7 summit agreed a "hate speech charter" as if the current draconian thought crimes aren't enough. Was this reported in the UK?

Outstanding observation...

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Funny from almost three weeks ago. Thanks and hat-tip to Craig at Is the BBC biased? Haggard Hawks' eagle eye spotted 'The Houses of Parliament' is an anagram of 'loonies far up the Thames'. [LINK] 



Anagrams of another building in the news: one dreamt, omen rated, tread on me, doner meat, men orated, monde tear... :-(

Outstanding observation...

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Funny from almost three weeks ago. Thanks and hat-tip to Craig at Is the BBC biased? Haggard Hawks' eagle eye spotted 'The Houses of Parliament' is an anagram of 'loonies far up the Thames'. [LINK] 

Anagrams of another building in the news: one dreamt, omen rated, tread on me, doner meat, men orated, monde tear... :-(