If you were an MP

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politician

  • noun 1 a person who is professionally involved in politics, especially as a holder of an elected office. 2 chiefly US a person who acts in a manipulative and devious way, typically to gain advancement.

looks like they are all real politicians

Originally posted by The Moo Justification? The rules didn't say that I couldn't.... apparently

Yeh, it's quite handy for them that they made the rules up themselves.

What a bunch of freeloading lowlifes they are and yet they have the temerity to tell the population to exercise pay restraint! They really make my blood boil, I would love to kick them all out of Parliament, personally, with my booted size 10s up their collective @rses. The useless bunch of thieving, lying toerags! 

Ah, that's better. Rant over.

edited for lack of anger

Don't forget to go on youtube (make sure you claim for the top Mac with the really nice wide screen monitor) to annouce how it's all really our fault and how your saving us from ourselves, before getting your driver to exceed the speed limit to get you to your country house to play your afternoon game of croquet, before getting him to speed back into town (tell your pet Chief constable to waive any speeding tickets) so you can take in a show paid for by the cultrual commision before retiring to your union funded grace and favour flat and relaxing with a BJ off your secretary whilst sipping a nice glass of Brandy! BUNCH OF A**!

What a load of reactionary rubbish.

I would have hoped  for the ability to see beyond the nonsense stirred up by the very poor reporting of this whole story, although on reflection I dont see why sailors should be any more perceptive than any other bunch of easily led idiots.

Yes some of the claims do look bad with retrospective scrutiny. Do any of you file a tax return? What do you claim for? Do any of you have an expense account at work? Are you sure all of your claims would stand up if examined? Are you really sure you would behave any differently in the same circumstances?

What you need to remember if that the main function of a newspaper is to make money by selling newspapers. They do this by hysterically reporting things in a way that stirs up an easily led public into a lather about things that really don't matter that much.

Most MPs are decent hard working people. If you don't like the system then get involved and change it, if you're not prepared to do that then you really have little cause to complain. How many of you don't even vote?

Storm in a teacup. If you're going to get irate, at least try and do it over something important.