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October 28, 2004
The Gravy Train is out of control
Mr Blair's cronies have certainly made hay! Expenses claims are running at tens of thousands of pounds each, most of them for things that could be (and perhaps should be) perceived as "party political promotion". So now the taxpayer is funding the Political activities of the Labour Party.
Not that this is new. We, the taxpayers of the UK, have been funding them ever since they came to power. Not content with stuffing the Civil Service with their placemen and cronies - all at the top salary bands - they have used "publicity" campaigns to promote their political agendas. The cost of this is more than four times what the previous Conservative government spent. But this is not all - we have also been subsidising them in their magnificent new HQ - a publically owned building in Westminster taken over by them at a peppercorn rent as soon as rthey came to power. Moving out the previous occupants - the Department of the Environment - cost the taxpayer in the order of £30 million.
So now we are also paying the mortgages on multiple homes for members of the Labour Party in Parliament, the publicity campaigns they are running under the guise of "consultation", and every other little perk they can charge to us. No wonder the tax take keeps going up. No wonder pension funds have to be raided to subsidise their bloated salaries and their bloated perks.
I hope the Conservatives do get back in power - and carry out their cull of MP's. A hundred less of these obnoxious freeloaders will be damned good for the country. Now, when can we expect to see someone knock off 2 million or more of the other great drain on the country - the army of Civil Servant managers destroying the institutions mis-manage the economy, and erase everything British.
Trouble is - Mr Howard and his party of losers aren't likely to get anywhere - the Lib Dems offer only even more of Mr Blair's wastage. So perhaps its time to bale out and go somewhere else!
Posted by The Gray Monk at October 28, 2004 08:32 AM