Snouts in the Trough

Register of Members’ Interests – Tim Yeo

I choked over my cornflakes the other day when I heard that several MPs had said we must all “work harder” to get Britain out of the economic mess caused by our MPs’ incompetence and profligacy with our money. Do any of our MPs actually know what it’s like to work? They get an incredible 90+ days a year holiday – rather more than you or I. Of course, our lazy thieving MPs claim they work hard representing their constitutents. But if they’re so busy, how come many of them have lucrative second and third jobs? David Miliband, for example, was reported as having earned about £450,000 above his MP’s salary last year. So he can’t have been too busy slaving away for those stupid enough to vote for him. Gordon Brown probably pocketed about £100,000 or more last year from his extra-curricular activities. And one of the MPs who told us to work harder was none other than ‘part-time’ foreign minister William Hague – a man so dedicated to working for his constituents that since becoming an MP he has had time to write a 688-page biography of William Pitt and a 480-page biography of William Wilberforce in addition to giving huge numbers of well-paid after-dinner speeches. And when they’re at Westminster, many MPs’ work consists of long leisurely lunches in the best restaurants (paid for by us), long leisurely dinners in the best restaurants (paid for by us) plus considerable time spent in the heavily subsidised Commons bars. Just look at the enormous bag of self-importance Eric Pickles to see where a lot of our money has gone.

With somewhere between 60% to 80% of our laws coming from Brussels, we don’t need 646 greedy, thieving, idle MPs any more. Just 200 or at most 300 would be quite enough. After all, anything to do with agriculture, fishing, trade, immigration and much more is now decided by unelected eurocrats. So perhaps our lazy, lying, hypocritical, incompetent, arrogant, thieving, useless MPs should refrain from telling the rest of us to “work harder”.

If you, or anybody you know is buying a home, you might find an article I wrote interesting and even useful https://ezinearticles.com/?Buying-a-Home?-Watch-Out-For-These-Estate-Agent-Tricks&id=3609738

And if you are either selling or buying a home, my experience is that one bunch you should be very careful with is the Countrywide Group. Countrywide claim to be “The UK’s largest and most successful estate agency and property services Group” and they seem to be based in the Cayman Islands – I wonder why. They own 47 estate agency chains including: Austin & Wyatt, Faron Sutaria, Palmer Snell, Hamptons, John D Wood and many more. They will offer you all kinds of services like conveyancing, surveys, mortgage advice and much more. I’m not suggesting for a moment that Countrywide would ever use any of the estate agents’ tricks I mention in my article. But in my limited experience, they do seem (I’ll put this politely) rather focused on “getting the sale” and cross-selling (making sure you buy their other services). For legal reasons, I will say no more.

After the flop of the Queen’s Speech yesterday, it has become more than clear that our lying PM David Liar Cameron doesn’t “get it” at all. He doesn’t “get” that most of  the country, especially Tory voters, despise him. We despise him because he has betrayed our trust. After the worst PM in British history, liar Gordon Liar Brown, Cameron had a unique chance to change Britain for the better. But all he did was put his cronies into the House of Lords, grovel to the bankers, make it easier for MPs and lords to carry on fiddling their expenses and protect overpaid underperforming civil service bosses. Meanwhile his government allowed the water, gas and electricity companies to plunder ordinary British people while overpaid useless regulators sit on their hands; allowed the banks to get away with selling £50bn a year of utter garbage (structured products) to us; allowed hundreds of British troops to be killed and maimed in a pointless unwinnable war to force a drug-dealing corrupt government onto Afghanistan; allowed uncontrolled immigration especially from our enemy Pakistan; allowed hugely wasteful Whitehall departments and worthless quangos (e.g. the £70m a year Equality and Human Rights Commission) to squander vast amounts of our money; allowed the EU bureaucrats to use every weasel-worded trick they can come up with to increase their power over us; thrown tens of billions of our money into the bottomless pit of the eurozone crisis; handed over billions in supposed foreign aid to Third World thieves and kleptocrats; been responsible for the aptly-named omnishambles; let his lying chancellor Osborne create havoc with his budget and so on and so forth.

Most people now see Cameron as a spineless, lying, incompetent, shallow, selfish, out-of-touch, PR spiv who should never have become PM. Cameron has become the Prince Charles of British politics – a complete and utter self-absorbed waste of skin. The sooner Cameron resigns and hands over power to someone with some principles, ideas and backbone, the better. Problem is – there probably isn’t anyone in the Tory party with sufficient talent, courage and intelligence to become PM. What a disaster for Britain.

After the local election results, our lying, incompetent PM David Liar Cameron claims he “gets it”. So, is this buffoon now admitting that he wasted the first two years of his time in office? No. Of course not. Because while claiming he “gets it”, Cameron the Incompetent says his government must continue making harsh spending cuts. Only problem is – the government isn’t making harsh spending cuts and continues to waste somewhere in excess of £150bn a year. If you really did “get it” Mr Cameron, this is what you would do:

Support British industry and invest in some infrastructure projects; declare all our water, electircity and gas companies strategic national assets that can only be owned by British companies and can’t make more than 10% a year in profits; cut benefits and only give council housing to people over 25 years old – if they have children earlier, they can live with their parents; stop grovelling to the European Court of Human Rights; do not allow any child to progress to the next year in their schooling until they have reached an adequate level on the three Rs; bring all our troops home from Afghanistan within the next three months and put them to work in our failing schools and gang-ridden council estates; demand the EU cuts its budget by 5% a year for the next five years and that all new legislation from the bureaucrats in Brussels be checked for whether it helps create or destroy jobs; put all public-sector managerial staff on a 4-day week; put all central Whitehall government departments on a 3-day week; admit that global warming may not be man made and remove all green taxes so that companies can afford to manufacture in Britain instead of moving to China; impose a maximum public-sector pension of average earnings (about £26,000 a year); abolish the worthless £70m a year Equality and Human Rights Commission and at least another twenty similarly pointless, job-destroying quangos; cut the Health and Safety budget by 20%; cut the BBC’s budget by 10%; set a maximum public-sector salary of £100,000; downgrade at least thirty supposed “universities” back to polytechnic or technical colleges and insist these colleges offer two-year courses that people can afford; cut off all foreign aid to any country that has more than ten billionaires; stop giving hundreds of millions to our enemy Pakistan.

And if you really did want to boost the economy, you would completely abolish Corporation Tax and replace it by retaining some of the VAT refunded to companies. This would ensure that all companies which operate in Britain paid tax here, would reduce the tax on small companies while making multi-nationals pay their fair share, would dramatically cut down tax avoidance schemes and would create a couple of hundred thousand well-paid jobs as hundreds of companies moved their HQs to Britain.

I bet none of your overpaid, arrogant, self-serving, sycophantic, career- obsessed, brown-nosing advisers have suggested any of the above.