Readers from outside Great Britain will be forgiven for thinking that the headline is a typographical error. Many will look on the idea of a Prime Minister appointing legislators as something that only happens in corruptocrat African dictatorships or the plethora of socialist tyrannies that infest our planet.
Unfortunately its a sad fact of life for the disenfranchised British people that the Mother of Parliaments is rotten to the core and is reduced to government by Executive decree and cronyism.
Those of the British people who are still capable of independent thought are aware that the second chamber of the British Parliament known as the House of Lords is such a cesspit of corruption, cronyism and thievery that its little wonder their country is in the mess it is in.
They are also aware that their Prime Minister, the vacuous PR man known as David 'Call Me Dave' Cameron, made a promise before the last election that he will reform the House of Lords as part of a package to reform the whole of Parliament.
This reform package included a plan to equalise the size of each constituency, to reduce the number of MP's that currently foul the benches of the House of Commons from 650 to 600 and to reduce the number of crooks in the House of Lords from 800 or so to 450.
He also promised that he would ban political appointments to the second chamber and not indulge in cronyism.
It didn't happen of course but he is a politician after all.
Anyone taking a detailed look at these shocking numbers will realise that British democracy is a sham and that the British people are powerless to alter it. In effect they have been disenfranchised.
The population of the United States of America is approximately 315 million souls. Their lower House, the House of Representatives, consists of 435 directly elected voting members.
Its second chamber, the US Senate consists of 100 directly elected Senators.
The population of Great Britain is approximately one fifth of America at 63 million. The lower House, the House of Commons, consists of 650 directly elected members, 215 more than our American cousins.
The second chamber, the House of Lords consists of a staggering 800 or so members. That is 700 more than the US Senate.
Of these members, 26 are ecclesiastics representing the Church of England, 92 are hereditary Peers and the rest are appointed.
It sounds unbelievable but regrettably it is true that not a single member of the second chamber of the British legislature is elected and worse still they are appointed for life therefore they cannot be removed.
To translate that into easily digestible figures it means that approximately 708 (seven hundred and eight) legislators are appointed, mostly by the political hierarchy of the day.
The appointment system itself is wide open to corruption as the competing political parties attempt to fill the second chamber with their own supporters.
Corruptocrats like Phony Tony Blair killed two birds with one stone by selling seats in the House of Lords to his own supporters in exchange for party donations.
The Bill to reform these two Houses of Corruption failed to pass a referendum due to infantile wrangling between the two political parties that make up the current coalition, therefore, and much to the relief of the politicians, both Houses remain unreformed.
One would think that the government would leave the numbers as they are until another opportunity arises for reform but the chance to exercise patronage and to reward cronies, donors and party apparatchiks proved to be too tempting to pass up.
The vacuous PR man 'Call Me Dave' Cameron has just announced that he, and the rest of the political class, are going to appoint a further 50 new legislators to the House of Lords including 15 Liberal Democrats some of whom are financial donors to the party. He has also announced that he intends to appoint another 100 over the next two years.
Assuming that none of the current lot will kick the bucket in the next two years that will take the number of freeloaders in the second chamber to approximately 950!!
I think that 'Call Me Dave' should go the whole way and make it a nice round 1000, after all whats another 50 when it's the taxpayer that is picking up the tab?
The reason given to justify this corruption and misuse of public money is that the current House of Lords does not reflect the House of Commons or result of the last election.
This is the type of lying and deceit that these crooks subject the British people to on a daily basis and then they wonder why their reputation stinks to high Heaven.
There's nothing to say that the House of Lords must mirror the House of Commons or reflect the results of the previous election.
If that's the case, and bearing in mind that these are appointments for life, then there will be a requirement for hundreds more of these shysters if the results are reversed after the next general election.
The truth is that 'Call Me Dave' and the rest of the political class that misrules Great Britain are corruptocrats of the very highest order and these appointments are to reward their political friends, their party apparatchiks and their party donors.
Despite the never ending promises to the contrary the British political class have no intention of reform or of returning political power to the people.
I hope and pray that the British people will wake up and take the necessary action to throw these charlatans out on their ears or better still into a jail cell.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
John Bercow And The Den Of Thieves
As I reflect upon the appalling behavior of the political elite and the public's reaction to it, I am reminded of an interview from the 70's with a lady from a battered womens' refuge in Chiswick, West London.
The husband of the lady in question would beat the living daylights out of her every day on his return from work before calmly sitting down to his evening meal.
The reason this lady gave for not running away was that her father regularly beat her mother, so she presumed this kind behavior was normal in a marriage plus, she added, it happened so often she came to expect it.
The shocking part was that she claimed she still loved her husband and that he loved her.
The conclusion of this sad story was that the lady was given counselling and educated to the fact that there is no love in an abusive relationship, her husband had no respect for her, he beat her because he could and he knew he would get away with it.
With her newly acquired self respect she exposed her husband to the media, she then had him prosecuted and thrown in the slammer.
The happy conclusion to this sad story was that the lady met up with a new partner and was in the process of a divorce with a plan to remarry.
Whenever I read about the behavior of our political elite my mind goes back to that interview all those years ago. Although there is no violence involved, the relationship between politicians and those they govern is, none the less, an abusive one but without the happy ending.
Politicians from both Houses of Parliament were helping themselves to shed loads of taxpayers money by exploiting an expenses system that was so corrupt it would make an African dictator blush. The public knew their representatives were cheating but were blissfully unaware of the extent of it.
When the Honourable Members of the House of Commons fought tooth and nail against a Freedom Of Information request to make their expense claims public, the peoples suspicions were aroused.
This suppression of transparency was successful and the public would have been none the wiser but for a whistleblower who made the information available to the Daily Telegraph who subsequently published it.
The reaction was volcanic, the public were appalled by the scale of the thievery but more importantly by the utter contempt and disrespect that these venal low life's had for the people they claimed to be representing.
Members from all parties were involved including millionaires and senior Members of the government.
The complete sorry details are too numerous to list here but they are available elsewhere on the Internet. The most notorious claims such duck houses and moat clearing have now entered into British political folklore.
MP's were indignant that they were exposed and went into a damage limitation mode as a matter of urgency. Some of the thieves were prosecuted and served time in the slammer, others lost their seats in the next election but by far the majority got away with it unpunished and with their loot intact.
To the disgust of these so called Honourable Members the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority was set up to monitor their activities and end the abuses. There's been a war of attrition between them ever since.
Despite the efforts of IPSA, MP's are still finding ways to help themselves to taxpayers money.
Recently there was the hard left champion of the poor and downtrodden, Ms Linda Riordan, renting out her taxpayer funded house to a fellow socialist, who then charged that rent to the taxpayer. Riordan then billed the taxpayer again for accommodation for herself. She makes some money and taxpayer gets screwed. As it turns out there were several other MP's pulling the same scam.
The public were outraged at this scam but only for the duration of the 24 hour news cycle, nothing surprises them anymore, like the battered lady at the beginning of the essay, the people now treat this disgraceful behavior as normal, they have come to expect it.
On the day that the convicted thief and career socialist Margaret Moran was spared prison on the grounds of her depression, (depression at getting caught no doubt), it was announced that the Speaker of the House, a tax cheat himself, John Bercow, has been enlisted by MP's to rig the makeup of IPSA.
Four independent members of IPSA have resigned as a result of this attempt at rigging. There can only be one reason for this, MP's do not like public scrutiny of their shenanigans and would like to get back to fleecing the taxpayer unobserved.
The reputation of politicians has never been lower but with tribal voting and a lack of scrutiny by the majority of the media they are safe in the knowledge that they have a taxpayer funded job for life, a copper bottomed pension and a lucrative sinecure on retirement.
Like the battered lady from the refuge, the people will continue to vote for the venal, self centered dregs of society until they are counselled and educated to regain their dignity and self respect.
They can then file for divorce, kick the villains out and find new partners who have their interests in mind.
The husband of the lady in question would beat the living daylights out of her every day on his return from work before calmly sitting down to his evening meal.
The reason this lady gave for not running away was that her father regularly beat her mother, so she presumed this kind behavior was normal in a marriage plus, she added, it happened so often she came to expect it.
The shocking part was that she claimed she still loved her husband and that he loved her.
The conclusion of this sad story was that the lady was given counselling and educated to the fact that there is no love in an abusive relationship, her husband had no respect for her, he beat her because he could and he knew he would get away with it.
With her newly acquired self respect she exposed her husband to the media, she then had him prosecuted and thrown in the slammer.
The happy conclusion to this sad story was that the lady met up with a new partner and was in the process of a divorce with a plan to remarry.
Whenever I read about the behavior of our political elite my mind goes back to that interview all those years ago. Although there is no violence involved, the relationship between politicians and those they govern is, none the less, an abusive one but without the happy ending.
Politicians from both Houses of Parliament were helping themselves to shed loads of taxpayers money by exploiting an expenses system that was so corrupt it would make an African dictator blush. The public knew their representatives were cheating but were blissfully unaware of the extent of it.
When the Honourable Members of the House of Commons fought tooth and nail against a Freedom Of Information request to make their expense claims public, the peoples suspicions were aroused.
This suppression of transparency was successful and the public would have been none the wiser but for a whistleblower who made the information available to the Daily Telegraph who subsequently published it.
The reaction was volcanic, the public were appalled by the scale of the thievery but more importantly by the utter contempt and disrespect that these venal low life's had for the people they claimed to be representing.
Members from all parties were involved including millionaires and senior Members of the government.
The complete sorry details are too numerous to list here but they are available elsewhere on the Internet. The most notorious claims such duck houses and moat clearing have now entered into British political folklore.
MP's were indignant that they were exposed and went into a damage limitation mode as a matter of urgency. Some of the thieves were prosecuted and served time in the slammer, others lost their seats in the next election but by far the majority got away with it unpunished and with their loot intact.
To the disgust of these so called Honourable Members the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority was set up to monitor their activities and end the abuses. There's been a war of attrition between them ever since.
Despite the efforts of IPSA, MP's are still finding ways to help themselves to taxpayers money.
Recently there was the hard left champion of the poor and downtrodden, Ms Linda Riordan, renting out her taxpayer funded house to a fellow socialist, who then charged that rent to the taxpayer. Riordan then billed the taxpayer again for accommodation for herself. She makes some money and taxpayer gets screwed. As it turns out there were several other MP's pulling the same scam.
The public were outraged at this scam but only for the duration of the 24 hour news cycle, nothing surprises them anymore, like the battered lady at the beginning of the essay, the people now treat this disgraceful behavior as normal, they have come to expect it.
On the day that the convicted thief and career socialist Margaret Moran was spared prison on the grounds of her depression, (depression at getting caught no doubt), it was announced that the Speaker of the House, a tax cheat himself, John Bercow, has been enlisted by MP's to rig the makeup of IPSA.
Four independent members of IPSA have resigned as a result of this attempt at rigging. There can only be one reason for this, MP's do not like public scrutiny of their shenanigans and would like to get back to fleecing the taxpayer unobserved.
The reputation of politicians has never been lower but with tribal voting and a lack of scrutiny by the majority of the media they are safe in the knowledge that they have a taxpayer funded job for life, a copper bottomed pension and a lucrative sinecure on retirement.
Like the battered lady from the refuge, the people will continue to vote for the venal, self centered dregs of society until they are counselled and educated to regain their dignity and self respect.
They can then file for divorce, kick the villains out and find new partners who have their interests in mind.
Monday, November 12, 2012
David Cameron - Abuses Of Power In An Outdated Democracy
The dust has settled after the American election and the recriminations have begun. Despite the evidence of Greece and the other Eurozone disasters, the incumbents have managed to convince enough of the electorate that the European model based on government mandated fairness and equality, socialism to give its correct name, is the way forward.
The only obstacle on this road to serfdom is the House of Representatives. The President is on record as saying that he will have to find a way to govern that bypasses Congress. Whether the House is successful in this monumental task only time will tell.
The Founding Fathers knew that this kind of abuse of power by a dictatorial Executive was possible, which is why they framed the Constitution in the way that they did.
I would advise the American people to scrutinise what the Obama administration is doing and use everything in their power to make sure that he adheres to the Constitution. It is your only safeguard against the long planned, malign agenda that the left want to implement in your beloved country.
The British people don't have this safeguard and as a result they have lost their birthright and the freedoms that so many of their brave countrymen and women paid the ultimate sacrifice to preserve.
We were led to believe that the British Parliamentary system was the best in the world. We were taught that the Mother of Parliaments was perfected over centuries of evolution from Alfred the Great to Magna Carta, from the civil war to the great Reform Acts of the 19th and 20th centuries.
This distortion of history falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. Power has always been wielded by the person or group of people that could raise the most powerful army. From barbarian tribal elders to the Roman invaders.
After the departure of the Romans, power passed back and forth between Norse or European invaders and local leaders. As time passed the most powerful of the local leaders consolidated their power and extended their boundaries, they went on to proclaim themselves kings as a means of keeping power in the family.
It didn't end there, rival monarchs made their claims to the throne, they raised armies and battled each other for power and the Divine Right to rule.
The civil war between the royalists and the more powerful parliamentary army put an end to that nonsense. Parliament won, the king was beheaded, and that was the beginning of the system we have today.
The British system is not based on a written constitution. This gave the politicians of the day the freedom to make it up as they went along in order to further their own interests and that of their sponsors.
Today's parliamentary system is so antiquated and undemocratic that the British people are powerless, in effect they are disenfranchised.
Universal suffrage in Great Britain is meaningless and the supposedly sacred vote is worthless This state of affairs has been seized upon by a ruthless political class who have decided among themselves what kind of country they want with complete disregard for the views of the people the are implementing it.
There is no separation of powers, the Executive branch, currently led by Prime Minister David Cameron, is all powerful. He is elected by the insider political class and their paymasters and not by popular vote. There are no primary elections.
Members of the Legislature, known as the House of Commons, are chosen or approved by the party machines and dumped on the constituencies whether they want them or not.
Loyalty to the party is the main criteria but in recent a development political correctness has reared its ugly head with candidates now being selected by quotas based on gender, sexuality and ethnicity instead of being selected on merit.
For the constituencies its tough luck as there are no primary elections.
The second chamber, known as the House of Lords, is a total shambles and an insult to democracy. Previously inhabited by hereditary Peers of the Realm with a sprinkling of appointed cronies, it is now under the patronage of the Prime Minister.
Consequently it is stuffed to its ancient rafters with cronies, villains, expense cheats, geriatrics and losers. These so called noble Lords are appointed for life so there is no prospect of them ever being removed by the people.
The leader of the Judicial branch is selected by the Prime Minister.
The leaders of the great Offices of State are chosen by the Prime Minister as are the Ministers of State and the leaders of the Establishment.
The leaders of the British institutions like the BBC and the NHS are also influenced by the PM.
Parliamentary terms are limited to 5 years but the Prime Minister can call election within that time if he thinks it is to his advantage to do so.
The British people became a laughing stock when the Labour Party and its Union paymasters got rid of Prime Minister Tony Blair in a mid term coup and appointed a fanatical socialist and reputed sociopath Gordon Brown in his place.
The Opposition demanded an election and at one point it appeared he would concede but Gordon Brown changed his mind claiming that he needed more time to put his vision for the country before the people. It appears that the megalomaniac Brown believed the country was his personal property to alter as he saw fit.
As the leader of the Opposition David Cameron took over as Prime Minister after Gordon Brown's fingers were finally prised from the levers of power when he lost the next election. One would be forgiven for thinking that David Cameron, claiming to be a freedom loving conservative, would reform this outdated system and repair the damage done by Blair/Brown and the socialists.
To the horror of the informed electorate he lacked an overall majority so he went into coalition with that other gang of unreconstructed socialists who operate under the benign sounding name of the Liberal Democrats.
David Cameron set about carrying on where Gordon Brown left off by following his own and the elite's agenda while ignoring the will of the British people.
The majority British people despises the European Union and they demand a referendum on their membership. In true Brownian fashion David Cameron stated that he believes Britain's place is inside the European Union and subsequently refuses the peoples demand.
Hopefully his arrogant intransigence on this issue will be his downfall.
The vast majority of the British people vehemently oppose the government giving taxpayer money away in foreign aid while they are hurting at home. David Cameron states that he believes Britain should not try to pull itself out of recession at the expense of the worlds poor therefore he will continue foreign aid.
To compound his arrogance and further demonstrate his contempt for the British people he plans to double the amount of foreign aid and enshrine into British law the United Nations' demand that 0.7% of British GDP should be redistributed to the developing world.
This United Nations demand applies all developed countries. To an economy the size of the United States this is a colossal amount of money. This Obama administration has already indicated to the UN their willingness to go along with this.
David Cameron's latest abuse of power and show of contempt for the British people is demonstrated by his intention to legalise homosexual marriage, against the wishes of the majority, by the end of this parliament.
"I believe its a straight matter of equality", he is quoted as saying. He is backed by his Deputy the odious Nick Clegg who claims that anyone who does not agree with them is a bigot.
David Cameron is a member of the remote, privileged elite. He was educated at Eton, Britain's most exclusive private school and then he went on to study the inevitable Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxbridge with the rest of the political elite including Red Ed Miliband and the Labour Party's parliamentary hierarchy.
David Cameron worked for two years in the Public Relations department of a failing television company before moving into party politics. He has no experience in the real world of industry, business or wealth creation. More importantly he has no experience of ordinary people, he is unable to identify with them and is incapable of understanding the effect his policies have on their lives.
He has lived his entire life in isolation, moving within a small circle of like minded friends.
David Cameron has the powers that many would be dictators would envy and there's nothing the British people can do about it.
Great Britain is unrecognisable from the country it was a decade ago so I beg the American people to look on our plight and learn from it.
Your Constitution is the bulwark against a powerful Executive who's declared intention is the fundamental transformation of your country.
Be vigilant, don't give up your birthright.
* Update - In true Gordon Brown fashion, David Cameron is planning to make a long awaited speech laying out his vision of Britains' place in the European Union. Watch this space.
The only obstacle on this road to serfdom is the House of Representatives. The President is on record as saying that he will have to find a way to govern that bypasses Congress. Whether the House is successful in this monumental task only time will tell.
The Founding Fathers knew that this kind of abuse of power by a dictatorial Executive was possible, which is why they framed the Constitution in the way that they did.
I would advise the American people to scrutinise what the Obama administration is doing and use everything in their power to make sure that he adheres to the Constitution. It is your only safeguard against the long planned, malign agenda that the left want to implement in your beloved country.
The British people don't have this safeguard and as a result they have lost their birthright and the freedoms that so many of their brave countrymen and women paid the ultimate sacrifice to preserve.
We were led to believe that the British Parliamentary system was the best in the world. We were taught that the Mother of Parliaments was perfected over centuries of evolution from Alfred the Great to Magna Carta, from the civil war to the great Reform Acts of the 19th and 20th centuries.
This distortion of history falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. Power has always been wielded by the person or group of people that could raise the most powerful army. From barbarian tribal elders to the Roman invaders.
After the departure of the Romans, power passed back and forth between Norse or European invaders and local leaders. As time passed the most powerful of the local leaders consolidated their power and extended their boundaries, they went on to proclaim themselves kings as a means of keeping power in the family.
It didn't end there, rival monarchs made their claims to the throne, they raised armies and battled each other for power and the Divine Right to rule.
The civil war between the royalists and the more powerful parliamentary army put an end to that nonsense. Parliament won, the king was beheaded, and that was the beginning of the system we have today.
The British system is not based on a written constitution. This gave the politicians of the day the freedom to make it up as they went along in order to further their own interests and that of their sponsors.
Today's parliamentary system is so antiquated and undemocratic that the British people are powerless, in effect they are disenfranchised.
Universal suffrage in Great Britain is meaningless and the supposedly sacred vote is worthless This state of affairs has been seized upon by a ruthless political class who have decided among themselves what kind of country they want with complete disregard for the views of the people the are implementing it.
There is no separation of powers, the Executive branch, currently led by Prime Minister David Cameron, is all powerful. He is elected by the insider political class and their paymasters and not by popular vote. There are no primary elections.
Members of the Legislature, known as the House of Commons, are chosen or approved by the party machines and dumped on the constituencies whether they want them or not.
Loyalty to the party is the main criteria but in recent a development political correctness has reared its ugly head with candidates now being selected by quotas based on gender, sexuality and ethnicity instead of being selected on merit.
For the constituencies its tough luck as there are no primary elections.
The second chamber, known as the House of Lords, is a total shambles and an insult to democracy. Previously inhabited by hereditary Peers of the Realm with a sprinkling of appointed cronies, it is now under the patronage of the Prime Minister.
Consequently it is stuffed to its ancient rafters with cronies, villains, expense cheats, geriatrics and losers. These so called noble Lords are appointed for life so there is no prospect of them ever being removed by the people.
The leader of the Judicial branch is selected by the Prime Minister.
The leaders of the great Offices of State are chosen by the Prime Minister as are the Ministers of State and the leaders of the Establishment.
The leaders of the British institutions like the BBC and the NHS are also influenced by the PM.
Parliamentary terms are limited to 5 years but the Prime Minister can call election within that time if he thinks it is to his advantage to do so.
The British people became a laughing stock when the Labour Party and its Union paymasters got rid of Prime Minister Tony Blair in a mid term coup and appointed a fanatical socialist and reputed sociopath Gordon Brown in his place.
The Opposition demanded an election and at one point it appeared he would concede but Gordon Brown changed his mind claiming that he needed more time to put his vision for the country before the people. It appears that the megalomaniac Brown believed the country was his personal property to alter as he saw fit.
As the leader of the Opposition David Cameron took over as Prime Minister after Gordon Brown's fingers were finally prised from the levers of power when he lost the next election. One would be forgiven for thinking that David Cameron, claiming to be a freedom loving conservative, would reform this outdated system and repair the damage done by Blair/Brown and the socialists.
To the horror of the informed electorate he lacked an overall majority so he went into coalition with that other gang of unreconstructed socialists who operate under the benign sounding name of the Liberal Democrats.
David Cameron set about carrying on where Gordon Brown left off by following his own and the elite's agenda while ignoring the will of the British people.
The majority British people despises the European Union and they demand a referendum on their membership. In true Brownian fashion David Cameron stated that he believes Britain's place is inside the European Union and subsequently refuses the peoples demand.
Hopefully his arrogant intransigence on this issue will be his downfall.
The vast majority of the British people vehemently oppose the government giving taxpayer money away in foreign aid while they are hurting at home. David Cameron states that he believes Britain should not try to pull itself out of recession at the expense of the worlds poor therefore he will continue foreign aid.
To compound his arrogance and further demonstrate his contempt for the British people he plans to double the amount of foreign aid and enshrine into British law the United Nations' demand that 0.7% of British GDP should be redistributed to the developing world.
This United Nations demand applies all developed countries. To an economy the size of the United States this is a colossal amount of money. This Obama administration has already indicated to the UN their willingness to go along with this.
David Cameron's latest abuse of power and show of contempt for the British people is demonstrated by his intention to legalise homosexual marriage, against the wishes of the majority, by the end of this parliament.
"I believe its a straight matter of equality", he is quoted as saying. He is backed by his Deputy the odious Nick Clegg who claims that anyone who does not agree with them is a bigot.
David Cameron is a member of the remote, privileged elite. He was educated at Eton, Britain's most exclusive private school and then he went on to study the inevitable Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxbridge with the rest of the political elite including Red Ed Miliband and the Labour Party's parliamentary hierarchy.
David Cameron worked for two years in the Public Relations department of a failing television company before moving into party politics. He has no experience in the real world of industry, business or wealth creation. More importantly he has no experience of ordinary people, he is unable to identify with them and is incapable of understanding the effect his policies have on their lives.
He has lived his entire life in isolation, moving within a small circle of like minded friends.
David Cameron has the powers that many would be dictators would envy and there's nothing the British people can do about it.
Great Britain is unrecognisable from the country it was a decade ago so I beg the American people to look on our plight and learn from it.
Your Constitution is the bulwark against a powerful Executive who's declared intention is the fundamental transformation of your country.
Be vigilant, don't give up your birthright.
* Update - In true Gordon Brown fashion, David Cameron is planning to make a long awaited speech laying out his vision of Britains' place in the European Union. Watch this space.
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