Last night I did a Tom Harris and phoned in to chat with Iain Dale during his shift on Talk Radio (likewise I was taken aback when Iain answered himself and was disorientated by the poor line). The issue (surprise surprise), was on MP's expenses and I pointed out the fallacy of the Tories calling a general election now, as some of the MP's who have misbehaved have yet to be disciplined and, given some of the safe seats they are in, those MP's could easily be returned with comfortable majorities in our first-past-the-post system. Obviously the same goes for all MP's and I could be wrong, but I do feel its better, at least where Labour is concerned, for the activists to punish their MP's and we have just as much cause to be angry as they have not only misused our taxpayers money, they have besmirched the reputation of the Party of which we are proud members.
Anyways you can find the Podcast of last nights Talk Radio show here. I'm about 37 mins in.
2 comments:
Just listened to your podcast. Not always easy to find the right words when on the spot eh?
You made it sound like Cameron is doing a good job over expenses - Cameron is playing the game - he is picking and choosing which MPs he punishes. A few old Tory grandees near retirement are being sacrificed, while defending others like Tory Michael Gove who have 'flipped' to gain £8,000 of taxpayers money - the same as what Blears has done.
What also of Tory Julie Kirkbride who has done the same as her husband who has been sacrificed? There is no consistency in Cameron at all, it is all a con. Why also should he be billed as Mr Clean when he expects us taxpayers to pay £20,000 towards his mortgage on his gigantic country house? And thats on top of the £140,000 salary we taxpayers pay him. Cameron is just as guilty of ripping us off.
But all these cretins reside in safe seats under our system and lifetime Tory voters are just not capable of abandoning their party no matter what. Which is why we need a system that does put their necks on the line. One or two independents and that is all that might get elected, won't make any difference to the 100s of Tories and new Labour MPs on the take. Currently 30% of Tory MPs have been implicated in exorbitant expenses claims by the Telegraph and 15% of Labour MPs. To make any difference Cameron would have to sack 50-60 Tory MPs, will he do that, will he heck?
I simply said that Cameron is making strong moves, BUT I also said thatn he was inconsistent in calling for an immediate general election which would reward bad behaviour. Thanks though for pointing out Cameron's further inconsistency on this issue
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