Did you read the news recently? Is seems
as if the party that have shoved the false claim that there is a ‘culture of entitlement’ within benefit
claimants, the party that tells us that we are a bunch of leeches, suckling at
the state, are hypocritical cockwombles.
The Tory’s golden boy, the former £134k-a-year Defence Minister (who had to
resign due to some dodgy business involving his ‘adviser’ Adam Werrity), had
the audacity, the temerity, the sheer cheek to apply for travelling expense for
a 100 meter journey. And worse, he was
paid 3p for this arduous trek.
It came to light from the Ipsa (Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority) that
Dr Fox made a grand total of FIFTEEN successful claims of £1 or less for car travel
in 12/13.
When confronted by the Sunday People, Dr Fox cowardly tried to blame his ‘office’
for the travelling expense claims. “I don’t do my expenses’, he whimpered, looking for any way not to take
responsibility for his actions.
Last week, when trying to justify his hair brained and dangerous plans to
remove all employment and housing benefits to ALL under 25, the PM attempted to
be of some relevance and claimed that there was a ‘culture of entitlement’
within working class youths. He was wrong, very wrong. If the PM really wants to find the real
scroungers, the real leeches of the state, he needn’t look very far.
In total, Dr Fox claimed more that £160,000 in expenses in 2012/13. That is the equivalent of the cost of JSA for
44 claimants for one year.
The news that some MPs take a ride out of the taxpayer comes as no surprise to
anyone. We, the public, were promised
that there would be a new and improved expenses system put into place after the
Telegraph exposed the expenses scandal in 2008.
We were promised a raft of political reforms that would improve and modernise
the Parliament, a full review of the political and democratic system and ‘a
radical redistribution of power’. We got Ipsa…
Again, we have been failed by hypocritical, conniving Parliamentarians who just
cannot be trusted.
