PARLIAMENTARY ALLOWANCES.
“Allowances reimburse MPs for expenditure wholly exclusively and necessarily incurred by MPs in the performance of their duties as MPs.” This is more or less a quote, as heard on BBC radio.
MPs have been described as being furious, annoyed, shocked by the injustice of it all. The shock of MPs is irrelevant. They will have to comply with the Legg demands, or resign. It could be argued, but not by me, that MPs are getting their just deserts. I would not waste my time with pointless unkindness.
And MPs are to some extent blameless. They have merely decided to come to terms with the situation as they have found it. But that is hardly an indication of political ambition, political competence, wanting to make a difference, or whatever.
Possibly for centuries MPs have organised injustices, perpetuated injustices and dreamt up new injustices. This has arguably been done to deal with problems associated with Christian perceptions of human nature. However the various injustices have encouraged and perpetuated a particularly European culture of bullying based on property, a particular culture of middle class parasitism.
The various injustices are too numerous to go into, at the moment. However I will list four to indicate the sort of thing I have in mind.
FIRSTLY, middle class parasites have been swanning around Africa, acting the Bwana White Man and subsidising phenomenally corrupt governments. And of course that sort of thing has established easy access to the natural resources needed to perpetuate Western Consumerism.
SECONDLY, middle class parasites have been encouraged to get the benefits of ever increasing house prices, based on phenomenal asset values inflation. The ever increasing house prices have amounted to little more than a pyramid selling scam, based on the misery of children, the misery of immigrants and the misery of people who have been so oppressed by social conditions that they have been unable to organise themselves financially. This requires a fair bit of explanation, but it is obvious enough that pyramid selling scams require a theoretically never ending flow of losers.
THIRDLY, middle class parasites have encouraged the promotion of never ending immigration because, although never ending immigration prevents the revaluing upwards of basic jobs, apparently the ignorant peasantry has to be made aware of the theoretical benefits of multiculturalism, or something. The situation is collective insanity.
FOURTHLY, prisons don’t work. They are universities of crime for the mentally ill. At least fifty per cent of serious crimes are committed by people, who have made conscious decisions to become institutionalised. But prisons are necessary to cattle prod the ignorant peasantry into tolerating social conditions of gross overcrowding, social conditions based on gross overpopulation.
These social conditions of gross overcrowding are clearly directly and consciously organised by middle class parasites. Lets kick start the housing market, and so on. Lets keep the economy growing. IN FACT THE ALLOWANCES CONTROVERSYCOULD BE SEEN AS A LAW AND ORDER PROBLEM.
Westminster MPs have been obsessed with establishing for themselves substantial middle class incomes, so they can distance themselves physically and socially from the ignorant peasantry. I ask the rhetorical question, why should MPs not have their London second homes on the Peckham council housing estates? Their second homes would then be only a half hours walk from Westminster.
The answer to the rhetorical question is simple obvious and very unpleasant. There prevails on the Peckham housing estates, the social conditions which are a direct consequence of the organised injustices and incompetence of Westminster MPs.
The sense of injustice and the shocked hopelessness felt by Westminster MPs at the moment because of the allowances controversy, are directly comparable to the present sullen hopelessness of most of the British electorate. NOW WESTMINSTER MPs KNOW HOW MOST OF THE BRITISH ELECTORATE FEEL.
We are living through political economic and ecological disasters and our MPs, self styled experts, are simply not addressing the problems. Indeed they seem to be organising the problems and benefiting financially from the problems.
ALL THIS, AS PRESENTED, MAY SEEM LIKE AN APPALLING NO WAY OUT SITUATION. I don’t see it that way. We need radical changes, basic changes. Not revolutionary changes.
Three Year Parliaments would be a good start. All we need for increased collective happiness is a drift in the right direction, instead of the present clear drift in the wrong direction. The phrases ‘middle class parasites’ and ‘middle class parasitism’ should become be phrases of the coming decades.
It is not a matter of weeding people out, of blaming people. If politicians won’t change, if they want to continue to promote middle class parasitism, they should be voted out of office. And political and social conditions should be changed, so that middle class parasitism becomes impossible.
What I am suggesting certainly is not socialism. It is a matter of making capitalism function well. Money as a medium of exchange. People encouraged to produce and retain wealth for themselves. Libertarianism, environmentalism and so on.
Tom Smith, Monday, 26th October 2009.
“Allowances reimburse MPs for expenditure wholly exclusively and necessarily incurred by MPs in the performance of their duties as MPs.” This is more or less a quote, as heard on BBC radio.
MPs have been described as being furious, annoyed, shocked by the injustice of it all. The shock of MPs is irrelevant. They will have to comply with the Legg demands, or resign. It could be argued, but not by me, that MPs are getting their just deserts. I would not waste my time with pointless unkindness.
And MPs are to some extent blameless. They have merely decided to come to terms with the situation as they have found it. But that is hardly an indication of political ambition, political competence, wanting to make a difference, or whatever.
Possibly for centuries MPs have organised injustices, perpetuated injustices and dreamt up new injustices. This has arguably been done to deal with problems associated with Christian perceptions of human nature. However the various injustices have encouraged and perpetuated a particularly European culture of bullying based on property, a particular culture of middle class parasitism.
The various injustices are too numerous to go into, at the moment. However I will list four to indicate the sort of thing I have in mind.
FIRSTLY, middle class parasites have been swanning around Africa, acting the Bwana White Man and subsidising phenomenally corrupt governments. And of course that sort of thing has established easy access to the natural resources needed to perpetuate Western Consumerism.
SECONDLY, middle class parasites have been encouraged to get the benefits of ever increasing house prices, based on phenomenal asset values inflation. The ever increasing house prices have amounted to little more than a pyramid selling scam, based on the misery of children, the misery of immigrants and the misery of people who have been so oppressed by social conditions that they have been unable to organise themselves financially. This requires a fair bit of explanation, but it is obvious enough that pyramid selling scams require a theoretically never ending flow of losers.
THIRDLY, middle class parasites have encouraged the promotion of never ending immigration because, although never ending immigration prevents the revaluing upwards of basic jobs, apparently the ignorant peasantry has to be made aware of the theoretical benefits of multiculturalism, or something. The situation is collective insanity.
FOURTHLY, prisons don’t work. They are universities of crime for the mentally ill. At least fifty per cent of serious crimes are committed by people, who have made conscious decisions to become institutionalised. But prisons are necessary to cattle prod the ignorant peasantry into tolerating social conditions of gross overcrowding, social conditions based on gross overpopulation.
These social conditions of gross overcrowding are clearly directly and consciously organised by middle class parasites. Lets kick start the housing market, and so on. Lets keep the economy growing. IN FACT THE ALLOWANCES CONTROVERSYCOULD BE SEEN AS A LAW AND ORDER PROBLEM.
Westminster MPs have been obsessed with establishing for themselves substantial middle class incomes, so they can distance themselves physically and socially from the ignorant peasantry. I ask the rhetorical question, why should MPs not have their London second homes on the Peckham council housing estates? Their second homes would then be only a half hours walk from Westminster.
The answer to the rhetorical question is simple obvious and very unpleasant. There prevails on the Peckham housing estates, the social conditions which are a direct consequence of the organised injustices and incompetence of Westminster MPs.
The sense of injustice and the shocked hopelessness felt by Westminster MPs at the moment because of the allowances controversy, are directly comparable to the present sullen hopelessness of most of the British electorate. NOW WESTMINSTER MPs KNOW HOW MOST OF THE BRITISH ELECTORATE FEEL.
We are living through political economic and ecological disasters and our MPs, self styled experts, are simply not addressing the problems. Indeed they seem to be organising the problems and benefiting financially from the problems.
ALL THIS, AS PRESENTED, MAY SEEM LIKE AN APPALLING NO WAY OUT SITUATION. I don’t see it that way. We need radical changes, basic changes. Not revolutionary changes.
Three Year Parliaments would be a good start. All we need for increased collective happiness is a drift in the right direction, instead of the present clear drift in the wrong direction. The phrases ‘middle class parasites’ and ‘middle class parasitism’ should become be phrases of the coming decades.
It is not a matter of weeding people out, of blaming people. If politicians won’t change, if they want to continue to promote middle class parasitism, they should be voted out of office. And political and social conditions should be changed, so that middle class parasitism becomes impossible.
What I am suggesting certainly is not socialism. It is a matter of making capitalism function well. Money as a medium of exchange. People encouraged to produce and retain wealth for themselves. Libertarianism, environmentalism and so on.
Tom Smith, Monday, 26th October 2009.
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