With a hung parliament looming and the most likely out come being a coalition government with the Lib Dems being the king makers, what will the Lib Dems expect for their support? Gordon Brown has already offered the Alternative Vote System, which isn’t a proportional representation form of voting system and is unlikely to be […]
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At the moment al the big “mioan” parties are widely despised, aren’t they?
They all showed up shamefully in the expenses scandal. They took massive amounts of illegal fuinding from non-doms, criminals and tax exiles to fund their election campaigns. They are all lying about the financial mess they have got us into, weighed down with debt and with the EU bleeding our economy dry.
It’s time to let some of those unorthodox non-conformist parties in to power and provide some meaningful choice for the electorate. Without it, the whole election is a sham.
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The only reason why UKIP and the BNP and other smaller parties didn’t get caught out in the expenses scandal is they don’t have any MPs to be caught out. UKIP and BNP MEPs and councillors have been caught out on similar things though, so they are no less selfish as the other parties.
The whole expenses system was bound to fail in this way since the whole premise was MPs can claim for anything they want as the expenses are a replacement for MPs wage increases because the British people already think MPs are paid too much.
Rather than giving MPs a wage like £80K plus a year they gave them £64K a year plus £20K+ expenses which the vast majority of MPs took in full (or very close to full).
It really makes me laugh that multimillionaires like David Cameron complained at the expenses scandal when if you asked a person in the street if you were a multi-millionaire MP (like David Cameron) would you take a £64K (£120K if a minister) wage packet and claim £20K expenses on your mansion of a home and then argue for changes to the expenses system that you didn’t really need in the first place, but took full advantage of because you could, would that be the actions of a fair/honest person?
I think most people who have lived modest lives wouldn’t act that way. I certainly wouldn’t claim expenses as an MP if I was a multi-millionaire, it sends the wrong message.
David
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PR is NOT the way forward. I have been reading up about it and it seems to be so complicated “God Knows Where my vote will go”. At least with first past the post I know where my vote went and If the candidate that I voted for Won or Lost.
LEAVE WELL ALONE!
First past the post is easy to understand.Also I understand that with PR there is more likelyhood of a Hung Parliament. Look at this Fiasco. Do we really want this every election?. I Think Not!
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