"Out Brown, out!"

On another day of frenzied activity at Westminster:

A national opinion poll put Liebour in third place for the first time since 1987.
kamikaze Brown promised a 'major and surgical' overhaul of the political system. A Constitutional Renewal Bill, including a legally-binding code of conduct for MP's, will be brought before Parliament in the autumn. Chancellor Alistair Darling, already facing LibDem demands to step down, was accused of claiming expenses on a flat he was letting out. David Cameron came under scrutiny for paying off a loan on his London home shortly after taking out a £350,000 taxpayer-funded mortgage on his constituency property. Michael Howard denied charging more than £ 17,000 for 'gardening services' at his second home in Kent. Veteran Labour MP Frank Cook was forced to apologise after he tried to claim back £5 donated during a church service to commemorate the Battle of Britain. The Labour plotters are putting together a plan to force kamikaze Brown out by destabilising him with a steady drip, drip of interventions, starting at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party tonight.
kamikaze Brown must NOT be allowed to bring in a Constitutional Renewal Bill, unless he pledges that it will not become effective until the country has voted on.
The entire country cannot stand anymore bile from this man and his rotten government.
I am not happy with anything these politicians are saying now that they have all been caught out with there greed. Its time for us the ordinary working class people to rise up and run this once "Great Britain" ourselves. Over the years we have fought wars, kept the economy working and tried to be good class citizens but we have been stabbed in the back by this pariah of rabble, now is the time for a peoples "REVOLUTION" !

Every man and his dog.

This week saw the unveiling of a major speech by UK opposition leader, conservative David Cameron, on proposed electoral reform to protect voters coming in the wake of the seemingly never ending stream of stories revealed in the media about members of parliament abusing taxpayer’s money to pad their expenses.
It was a predictable political path to tread.
Politicians ripping off the taxpayer was always going to be a red hot issue especially in the midst of a recession, and the across the board feeling of anger amongst the voters was inevitably ripe for both political main parties to opportunistically try to capitalise upon.
David Cameron appears to be leading the way on this so far although it would surely be difficult for the governing Labour Party under Prime Minister Gordon Brown to do, as the incumbent party who have been in power for the last three elections in a row.
Suddenly every man and his dog, who wants to seek public office, is peddling the ticket of how they are the ones who are going to right all the long-standing wrongs and injustices within the system.
In truth, virtually no one banging his drum in the UK right now is offering the public very much real change at all. Even more strange again is that the version of this that David Cameron wants the public to buy into is in reality little more than the same message of smaller government/more local and individual authority that conservatives have always put forward for decades. His conservative cohorts in the US right now are using exactly the same philosophy to try to derail Barack Obama, even though with his 65% approval rating in the polls there it seems to be gaining little traction so far.
Notwithstanding that, the con behind Cameron’s rhetoric of supposed electoral reform lies in the unpleasant reality that historically less government, with ensuing greater power for the individual (in theory at least), commonly translates into the little more than whatever power the government gives up then being shipped directly into the hands of yet another powerful minority – only this time it’s the wealthy, equally elite classes, who under no circumstances are ever going to mirror the needs of ordinary individuals or local communities around the country.
Even if we assume that he is right and what the left have created in Britain is a power grab for a centralised government run by the elite few, then we surely should also suspect that what he is offering in it’s place is little more than the very same thing only this time with the power shifting into the hands of his cronies instead of theirs. For their part, the left under Gordon Brown and the Labour Party appear to be offering even less with so far no more than vague promises to change things and listen to anyone who can help.Where exactly then is this real change going to come from that will put power back into the hands of ordinary folks? It seems that only the relatively small third-wheel in British politics offers an answer to this, with the Liberal Party once again proposing that a fundamental change away from the long enshrined first past the post voting method over to proportional representation system could actually bring this about. As a voting system already in use widely within the European Union, it appears to be the only real tangible alternative anyone has put on the table so far. And with governments often being formed in the UK with as little as 20-30% of the vote cast, then it seems like potentially a real step forward. Astonishingly enough though, when confronted about supporting the introduction of proportional representation into Britain, David Cameron immediately shot it down and made it clear that the Conservative Party would never support this. Little wonder indeed! There’s nothing like a bit of electoral reform just as long as long as we don’t actually put too much power in the hands of the people. Cameron’s bright new era of change to give everyone more say is ultimately little more than telling the voters that they can choose any colour they wish as long as it’s blue.The saddest part of this of course is that the one political party who is actually proposing any real change is the one with the least support amongst the British electorate. In their anger at the large sums of money their elected officials have essentially picked from their pockets dishonestly with every imaginable bogus expense claim every thought up, the voters are seemingly paying the least attention to the one group there who could actually help them make sure this does not happen again. To resolve this, the issue of how people vote in the UK and have their voices heard has to become a non-party issue completely, much akin to how the Green issue did with the environment. That will help add weight and credence to it as something that the public will not simply sweep under the carpet merely because it will never happen anyway due to being pushed by a party no one will ever put it in power. Outside of that however the ball is very much in their court. The British public can get mad now and do little about it ultimately or they can get mad now and put that entirely understandable feeling of resentment to good use by supporting a change in the way things get done that has probably been long overdue anyway.

Humilation for a proud United.

A superb Barcelona performance tonight proved to be a humilation for the English champions. Only for the first nine minutes did United perform with superiority but then on ten minutes and the first Barcelona attack they scored and that was that. From then on it was all Barca.
One night, one knight, another crusade across Europe at an end. A frustrated end this time but keep smiling, Sir Alex. There are more and better nights to come next season.

Reform becomes the flavour of the month.

A new politics: We need a massive, radical redistribution of power

Adding his voice to the Guardian debate, the Conservative leader argues today that public fury at the MP's expenses scandal points to deep problems in the British political system, and calls for restoring local control in the spirit of glasnost.

Even as a conservative, I have my doubts about how much power any government ever gives away - but I agree 100% with his analysis of the problem.
But I don't underestimate how radical some of these changes could be, or how hard he will be pushed from within his own party.
For example, freeing schools from central control will benefit us all in the long run, but in the short term some schools will become even more of a sink. Similarly, when a Tory talks about personal responsibility, it means taking away benefits from people who won't look for work.Yes we are oppressed by petty bureaucracy, but that is partly our own fault, as we expect the state to solve all our problems.
I like Mr. Cameron's thinking but when he's ironed out the kinks of how these things will be done what we the people would like to see is a hand written letter from Mr Cameron signed and dated with all of his election manifesto promises.

At one o'clock there was Jack in the box Straw telling all on radio 4's World At One programme how he supports fixed term parliaments but what Jack Straw needs to recognise that we, the electorate, are all set to use our people power and boot out the current government. Including Jack Straw.
Just as Ken Livingstone ended his last days preaching to an ever wider audience; fewer and fewer of them were listening.
Does Jack Straw not realise it's too little and too late from the party who promised root and branch reform thirteen years ago and then sat on their hands - this is such an easy one for Cameron to defeat.
In the name of God, go.
Call an election you cowards.

Good news, two more leeches out.

"Sir Nicholas and Lady Winterton said they could no longer 'maintain the hectic pace' of political life and wanted to step down in order to spend more time with their family." ...AND our MONEY!
The old saying 'rats leaving sinking ship' seem to apply here, the soon they go the better why wait until the next election, a resignation today from them both would be acceptable and welcomed.
Cameron must act decisively now, not only to sack all offending MP's but to insist on the return of all monies.
If Cameron and the Tories wish to retain public confidence he needs to act now, otherwise a golden opportunity will be missed. Everybody is watching you Dave!
Now let's have resignations or sackings from the Liebour lot.
The Brown Balls, Blears, Smith, McNulty, Hoon, Purnell, Darling (the Chancellor who cannot fill in a tax return and passes the accountant's bill to the taxpayer) all spring very quickly to mind. I think that its time for a general election don't you?

We need an election and now , this corrupt bunch of fiddlers need to be kicked out.

This doesn't get any easier, almost every day another story about blatant abuse of trust, a system to assist them and constant lies. It shows that few if any in the whole of the House of Commons are worthy as MP's, if they weren't in on the scams, then they at least must have known what was going on.
There is no excuse for not holding an election as soon as possible, even Balls and Cooper are up to their necks in it, so come on Brown enough is enough, we have suffered long enough under your misrule, give us the election we want and demand now, you coward.
The only possible recourse is to suspend parliament immediately, those MP's who are not being investigated could not possibly carry out their duties in any case, the electorate have had enough, also the fact that since having been unmasked as the scoundrels that the majority of them undoubtedly are, they appear to be incapable of stringing a sentence together,obviously preoccupied with the repercussions that their utter greed will have on them personally.
The complete lack of moral fibre being shown by these miscreants, makes one wonder how they were elected in the first place.


But what is more worrying than the travel expenses scam is the fact that our dumbledorf Chancellor has claimed on expenses for an accountant to do his tax returns! So the Chancellor cannot even do a tax return yet is in charge of the countries purse strings managing billions of pounds; my mind boggles!
I have never understood why somebody who has no financial skills, experience or talent is given the job in charge of finance for the country. He was given this job simply because he is a yes man for Brown.
The same goes for Defence and Home secretary posts. Why do they not employ somebody who has the skills needed to do these very important jobs and not to career politicians who in most cases have never had a proper job in their lives.
I think the whole process needs to be overhauled from top to bottom!
Come on Brown and call a general election.

Wick is the real man of destiny.

The man behind the sale of MP's expenses claims broke his silence last night to reveal he wanted to expose the system to its 'rotten core'. John Wick, a former SAS officer, said he was proud of his role as a whistleblower.
Apart from politicians who have blatantly abused the system, how on earth can anyone not be pleased with the efforts of Mr. Wick.
No matter how he obtained the information a sin is a sin and the guilty Members of Parliament should be punished more severely than so called tax cheats who merely endeavour to hold on to money they've earned, unlike MP's filching money they haven't earned.
Good on you Mr Wick, you have quite rightly exposed certain MP's and the cosy club they belong to which ever party they belong to as a thieves and liars with a selfishness beyond belief for those in public office.
We always suspected that the Commons was a self regulated club with no accountability to the public and you have proven us correct.
What right do these MP's have to squander our hard earned money on their 2nd homes,apartments etc etc...Let's get one thing straight,they have claimed allowances from public money for their second homes,duck houses,new kitchens and whatever else they wanted all at tax payers expense...Mr Wick deserves a medal for his expose of their greed.
This Parliament is no better than the most corrupt regimes in Asia, Africa and S America. Perhaps this will change but not under a Liebour administration - they are just old fashioned Socialists who just want our money and I doubt this will change.
Brown call an election now.