Freebies? Yes, just knock my door....

     More and more are we all aware that somehow we vote into Office people who are basically dishonest, have the idea ‘I take out whatever I can because I only have four or five years’ amongst other interesting ideas about how to enrich themselves. Again, it must be said it is not all who do, but unfortunately it is still too many who do. More so, when caught out they invariably say things like, “My mother-in-law hated me, and ‘I couldn’t cope so I wasn’t sure what I was doing’, ‘My mental health suffered because my son started masturbating’ or interesting other excuses. But of course, when you become the CEO of a political party with loads of lolly coming in freely and mostly without much of a record, it is pretty easy to start thinking, ‘Hey, I’ll put this 1000 quid in petty cash’. Forgetting of course the petty cash tin is in the drawer of the desk at home. It is a fact that those in Office do get approached with gifts, disguised as a ‘Thank you’ but in reality a ‘payment’ for something the lobbyist wants done. The ubiquitous bottle of wine at Christmas I know personally as well and hereby thank all past donors. In fact expensive meals were and still are very popular. At the end it is basically all the same, these things are designed to curry favour. Now a bottle of some drink sounds innocuous, most people would agree but when £250,000 mobile campers start appearing on the lawn at home? No questions? No? Oh, I see it was a thank you for saving us from those tyrants and shysters at Westminster. OK, that’s great, well done, enjoy. The wife will never notice it anyway, she never mows the lawn.

    Anyone noticed the helicopter on my front yet? No? A gift from my very good friend Elon, he can afford it, you know and he thought as it was my birthday to surprise me. My wife never noticed it, she doesn’t know a helicopter from a Fiat 500, so we’re OK Elon. Well done, I am taking lessons when I can have more Pension Credit. I’ll ask my 25 year old neighbour how to complete the form, he’s good at that. Hasn’t worked since he left school. Wonderful chap, wants to travel the world. Yes, friends, welcome to the Freebee world we live in today. The problem as always is who in the end pays the bills? I am afraid to say here in this blog it is you, me and everyone else who still has a job. Even pensioners who have paid their exorbitant state demands, taxation and so on, even on their works pensions or state pensions, are held to ransom. HMRC are seemingly an office of over a million people scrutinising every bank deposit, every withdrawal and it fit doesn’t fit their projections of how much it should be, officers will appear at your door to carry you away handcuffed and pistols pointing at your head. Sounds over the top? Is it? Really? Friends, it is high time we start looking at how our systems should be working. Are we over taxed, do we allow too much freeway in office. What about plans to offset calamities, plans to control misuse of the Internet. In other words proper government. Proper taxation, proper budgeting. Getting rid of vague woolly ideas, fuzzy thinking. Ensuring people elected are fit to lead and have the right qualifications insofar necessary for the task. Surely, that is just the minimum? Someone tell Starmer, please.