http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/02/william-hague-michael-white-political-briefing
Sometimes even I have trouble comprehending the full depth and extent of the rank hypocrisy that exists in British public life.
It has just dawned on me that only in this gay friendly country is it a career-damaging move for a male politician to share a hotel room with another man.
No doubt in countries where homosexuality acts are outlawed, nobody would bat an eyelid about one man sharing a room with another man.
And only in this country is one gay man not allowed to pay another gay man rent for staying in his flat without being made to pay it back out of his own pocket after this particular expense was disallowed under the rules of MPs' expenses.
Shocking, but true.
THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
Showing posts with label David Laws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Laws. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Friday, 4 June 2010
David Laws and his £40,000 fuck
Interesting how many MP-hating people cannot see their hypocrisy and small-minded vindictiveness when they proclaim the villainy of Laws for daring to claim £40K for his London accommodation.
This seems to arise from a number of unspoken and questionable assumptions here.
1. What is legitimately claimable as an expense becomes "theft", "corruption" and "fraud" if you have sex with your landlord or your landlady.
2. Your fuck buddy is obliged to give you stuff for free. (However, if that were so then no one would be anyone's fuck buddy, would they?)
3. MPs do not have a right to any privacy.
4. All are obliged to given an up to date list of their sex partners, especially MPs.
5. It is quite in order for an MP to suffer the loss of £40K for the foul crime of having sex with his landlord or landlady.
6. £40K is a reasonable sum to pay for a fuck.
This is when the MP concerned should ask: "Is it cos I is an MP?"
The answer would be: "Of course it is! The fact that you exist, let alone are paid and are allowed to claim any expenses paid at all is an affront to civilised values."
Bit extreme, but many educated liberals and libertarians take this view.
Hypocrisy and small-minded vindictiveness go hand in hand with MP-hating libertarians and liberals.
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-finance-office/greenbook0907.pdf
Page 66 states:
If I don't tell friends and family that my landlord or landlady is my sex partner, then I am not treating him or her like a spouse, am I?
Stupidity, cowardice, hypocrisy and vindictiveness rule OK in the UK.
This seems to arise from a number of unspoken and questionable assumptions here.
1. What is legitimately claimable as an expense becomes "theft", "corruption" and "fraud" if you have sex with your landlord or your landlady.
2. Your fuck buddy is obliged to give you stuff for free. (However, if that were so then no one would be anyone's fuck buddy, would they?)
3. MPs do not have a right to any privacy.
4. All are obliged to given an up to date list of their sex partners, especially MPs.
5. It is quite in order for an MP to suffer the loss of £40K for the foul crime of having sex with his landlord or landlady.
6. £40K is a reasonable sum to pay for a fuck.
This is when the MP concerned should ask: "Is it cos I is an MP?"
The answer would be: "Of course it is! The fact that you exist, let alone are paid and are allowed to claim any expenses paid at all is an affront to civilised values."
Bit extreme, but many educated liberals and libertarians take this view.
Hypocrisy and small-minded vindictiveness go hand in hand with MP-hating libertarians and liberals.
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-finance-office/greenbook0907.pdf
Page 66 states:
"Partner means one of a couple, whether of the same sex or of the opposite sex (the other being a Member) who although not married to each other or civil partners are living together and treat each other as spouses."
If I don't tell friends and family that my landlord or landlady is my sex partner, then I am not treating him or her like a spouse, am I?
Stupidity, cowardice, hypocrisy and vindictiveness rule OK in the UK.
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
David Laws and his landlord lover
Supposing you are an MP, live in Yeovil and have to travel to London frequently on parliamentary business.
You rent a flat or stay at a B&B. This is an allowable expense for which you can claim.
You fuck your landlord or landlady from time to time over time. You certainly don't go around telling your friends and family that you and your landlord (or landlady) are an item.
Suddenly an allowable expense is no longer an allowable expense.
Is this quite right? Or a gross invasion of your privacy as well as that of your landlord's (or your landlady's)?
Only in Britain, eh?
You rent a flat or stay at a B&B. This is an allowable expense for which you can claim.
You fuck your landlord or landlady from time to time over time. You certainly don't go around telling your friends and family that you and your landlord (or landlady) are an item.
Suddenly an allowable expense is no longer an allowable expense.
Is this quite right? Or a gross invasion of your privacy as well as that of your landlord's (or your landlady's)?
Only in Britain, eh?
Monday, 31 May 2010
David Laws resignation and how to solve the problem of accommmodation for out-of-town MPs
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282489/David-Laws-resigns-paying-40-000-gay-lover.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/31/david-laws-resignation-naivety-privacy
Laws paid £40,000 to his landlord and lover James Lundie for renting accommodation through him in London. Laws needed to do this because his home is in Yeovil in Somerset.
If he hadn't had sex with Lundie it would have been within the rules, apparently.
So if you are an MP you are not allowed to have sex with your landlord or the landlady whose B&B it is you are staying at, or it would cost you? Where is the logic of that, I wonder. But then logic is not this nation's strong suit.
Crazy rules, which no one thinks to revise, and which brings the law into general contempt generally. A dangerous state of affairs, I would have thought, but our political classes are too thick to see this or if they are, too cowardly to say or do anything.
If you are a London MP then you aren't entitled to claim for your accommodation because you already live in London, which is fair enough.
Why doesn't the government provide accommodation for these out-of-town MPs then?
The Japanese do this for their MPs so why can't we?
So he goes because the British political establishment is full of gutless little wimps afraid of envious little sheeple baaing over MPs' expenses claims.
These sheeple will soon forget what they are baaing about and start baaing about something else. It is well-known that sheeple have the memory of goldfish, but our political classes are afraid even of goldfish, as well as of slut and slapper verminous single mums breeding the next generation of vermin.
How about MPs' accommodation near the House courtesy of the taxpayer for out-of-town MPs then ? This seems obvious to me.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5384031/MPs-expenses-and-you-thought-British-MPs-were-bad-.-.-..html
Are they really that gutless and thick they can't even organise a piss-up in a brewery?
If this is the case they shouldn't be running the country then, should they?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/31/david-laws-resignation-naivety-privacy
Laws paid £40,000 to his landlord and lover James Lundie for renting accommodation through him in London. Laws needed to do this because his home is in Yeovil in Somerset.
If he hadn't had sex with Lundie it would have been within the rules, apparently.
So if you are an MP you are not allowed to have sex with your landlord or the landlady whose B&B it is you are staying at, or it would cost you? Where is the logic of that, I wonder. But then logic is not this nation's strong suit.
Crazy rules, which no one thinks to revise, and which brings the law into general contempt generally. A dangerous state of affairs, I would have thought, but our political classes are too thick to see this or if they are, too cowardly to say or do anything.
If you are a London MP then you aren't entitled to claim for your accommodation because you already live in London, which is fair enough.
Why doesn't the government provide accommodation for these out-of-town MPs then?
The Japanese do this for their MPs so why can't we?
So he goes because the British political establishment is full of gutless little wimps afraid of envious little sheeple baaing over MPs' expenses claims.
These sheeple will soon forget what they are baaing about and start baaing about something else. It is well-known that sheeple have the memory of goldfish, but our political classes are afraid even of goldfish, as well as of slut and slapper verminous single mums breeding the next generation of vermin.
How about MPs' accommodation near the House courtesy of the taxpayer for out-of-town MPs then ? This seems obvious to me.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5384031/MPs-expenses-and-you-thought-British-MPs-were-bad-.-.-..html
Are they really that gutless and thick they can't even organise a piss-up in a brewery?
If this is the case they shouldn't be running the country then, should they?
Sunday, 30 May 2010
"Homophobic" means saying anything that might offend homosexuals?
Iain Daile said on Facebook today:
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2010/05/ben-bradshaw-hang-your-head-in-shame.html
And then I was defriended.
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2010/05/ben-bradshaw-hang-your-head-in-shame.html
David Laws goes, mown down by collective cowardice and hypocrisy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/27/david-laws-profile
Gosh, we're so clever, aren't we? Obviously, our government is already so STUFFED with talent that we can afford to cut MPs down like grass over some petty rule about whom one may pay rent to if we hire their premises, especially if they show a bit of talent.
The best people (and I include Peter Mandelson because he is loved, hated and feared in equal measure) are now out of office and staying out, while fools and knaves increase in number.
The media as expected are pompously prating about integrity and the reputation of MPs.
Anyone earning less than an MP - and you have to be something of a loser, don't you, to be prepared to settle for the paltry basic salary of just under £65K per annum an MP gets these days while being spat and sneered at by members of the public - seem to be gloating obscenely, pissing and shitting themselves with delight at yet another opportunity to kick a member of the political classes in the teeth.
Cameron and Clegg are very obviously not defending him but managing to make a few weak squeaks of regret and support.
Two metrosexual men in charge, but still no balls in British government.
People deserve the government they get, and boy, do we deserve the government we are going to get.
Gosh, we're so clever, aren't we? Obviously, our government is already so STUFFED with talent that we can afford to cut MPs down like grass over some petty rule about whom one may pay rent to if we hire their premises, especially if they show a bit of talent.
There are so many petty rules that even the politicians who made them can't keep up. That is the long and short of it.
The best people (and I include Peter Mandelson because he is loved, hated and feared in equal measure) are now out of office and staying out, while fools and knaves increase in number.
The media as expected are pompously prating about integrity and the reputation of MPs.
Anyone earning less than an MP - and you have to be something of a loser, don't you, to be prepared to settle for the paltry basic salary of just under £65K per annum an MP gets these days while being spat and sneered at by members of the public - seem to be gloating obscenely, pissing and shitting themselves with delight at yet another opportunity to kick a member of the political classes in the teeth.
Cameron and Clegg are very obviously not defending him but managing to make a few weak squeaks of regret and support.
Two metrosexual men in charge, but still no balls in British government.
People deserve the government they get, and boy, do we deserve the government we are going to get.
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