[Finance] Snouts in the bloody trough..

[abc]

How many do you want?
Gordon Brown
Tony Blair
James Callaghan
Harold Wilson
Clement Atlee
Ramsay MacDonald

Take your pick.

I meant now!

 

[abc]

He asked name one labour MP that has made it to No.10
Which is what TB did.

You really are the most inflexible poster on nsc! Why try and win every point rather than just go with the flow sometimes?!

 

[abc]

Why? What have current Labour MPs got to do with snouts in the trough?
Since 2016, there have been 4 Tory MPs who are all entitled to top pension rights.
At least the Labour Prime Minsters I named managed to keep their job for a few years.

I was just being a little light hearted but hey ho!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I meant now!

That's whataboutery. I was talking about Prime Ministers getting a massive pension for life, and Truss is getting that just for 44 days 'work'. A snout in the trough.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I was just being a little light hearted but hey ho!

Of course, you were.

 

[The Clamp]

You really are the most inflexible poster on nsc! Why try and win every point rather than just go with the flow sometimes?!

I’ll post how I want to post, thank you so much. I tend not to treat the facts as flexible. Unlike your mob.

If you’re too f***ing stupid to answer questions, that’s not my problem.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Well, hard to argue to a point.

My point was, the elite, be it Labour, Tory, corporate, or the monarchy are taking us for mugs.

For the record though, all being equal, I would rather have a Labour government that the Tory government we have now.

In fact, I’d rather have a fentanyl addicted Tasmanian devil in charge right now.

But perhaps that’s more suited to the Tory/labour threads.

Proportional Representation is the answer, more people working for their constituency and not beholding to paymasters. Most of the problem is the specialist and technical teams behind big polotics and protecting MPs, PR gives the power nearer to the people.

 

[The Clamp]

Fat little piggies doing us up the wrongle…

MPs paid £10m for second jobs and freelance work over past year

Boris Johnson’s extra income accounts for almost half of figure, of which vast majority was made by Tory MPs

www.theguardian.com

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Fat little piggies doing us up the wrongle…

MPs paid £10m for second jobs and freelance work over past year

Boris Johnson’s extra income accounts for almost half of figure, of which vast majority was made by Tory MPs

www.theguardian.com

Yes but whatabout......hang on....I'll get back to you.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

That’s fine. He was sacked for no good reason.

MPs getting payments for RESIGNING IN DISGRACE plus GETTING PM legacy expenses (£100k+ PA) and an honours list made up of their biggest sycophants is utterly disgusting. And those who think ‘they are all the same’ are ignorant gaslight-gammon playing into the hands of the likes of Putin and the foreign owned or non-dom right wing press.

Liz Truss has an honours list of 14 people not counting the two people who refused an honour from her, as they are too embarrassed to accept one. 1 person for every 4 days of her disastrous tenure.
Your mortgages have gone up for this.

At least two people said to have declined resignation honours from Liz Truss

Ex-prime minister seeking to hand out peerages and other honours but one person reportedly felt too ‘humiliated’ to accept anything

www.theguardian.com

 

[The Clamp]

‘tis a pity we don’t have a dishonours list. Probably not enough time on the planet to work through that back-log.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

‘tis a pity we don’t have a dishonours list. Probably not enough time on the planet to work through that back-log.

It's the lefty lawyers stopping them from getting arrested for misconduct in public office.

Oh, wait!

 

[Dave the OAP]

How come the huge pay rises and salaries of the mega-rich are never blamed for fuelling inflation, or pricing themselves out of work?

Be cause we spend our money overseas or at Waitrose.

and we buy German cars ….vorsprung Durch teknic plebs

 

[jackanada]

The is thing is that rishi doesn't seem to be getting pelters for his high level trough snoutery.
Family linked hedge funds made hundreds of millions when he was chancellor because they seemed to know in advance about vaccine approvals and contracts and now he's PM the family have repeated the trick on an even bigger scale when he abandoned all climate commitments and approved new gas and oil exploration. It's impressive in some ways, all those tory MPs swindling hundreds of millions for them and theirs must be green with envy as he shows them how the real elite do it.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Be cause we spend our money overseas or at Waitrose.

and we buy German cars ….vorsprung Durch teknic plebs

Buying foreign/imported goods depresses the value of the pound and thus increases inflation.

 

[Badger]

‘tis a pity we don’t have a dishonours list. Probably not enough time on the planet to work through that back-log.

I assume those are like honours except King Charles slips with sword?

 

[The Clamp]

UK spends £13m on private schooling for diplomats’ children

Foreign Office staff subsidies bill for boarding school education rises by nearly a third in a year

www.theguardian.com

 

[The Clamp]

Oink oink

Theresa Villiers had £70,000 in Shell shares while environment secretary

MP failed to reveal shares in oil company for more than five years despite disclosure rules

www.theguardian.com

 

[maltaseagull]

Proportional Representation is the answer, more people working for their constituency and not beholding to paymasters. Most of the problem is the specialist and technical teams behind big polotics and protecting MPs, PR gives the power nearer to the people.

Agreed but unlikely to happen.
Too many vested interests involved.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

UK spends £13m on private schooling for diplomats’ children

Foreign Office staff subsidies bill for boarding school education rises by nearly a third in a year

www.theguardian.com

That also applies to officers’s children in the armed forces.