The Conservative Party

[Rascal]

The killing disabled people party. My mum being one of them.

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That is one of the most heartbreaking threads i have ever read.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I honestly think that this Govt doesn't care one jot and when these things happen and when there are desperate people are crossing the Channel as long as it begins to deflect and take the conversation away from Johnson and their crooked colleagues then thats fine with them.

 

[kaz7]

There are more examples in the replies.

It’s really bad at the moment

Sorry that what i was meaning to say , there are loads of others cut off from benefits that killed themselves esp when IDS was in charge and the assessments were made harder , the assessments became inhumanising , i hate it when the brown envelope drops on the mat , they also take no notice of letters from drs so my dr says , they put them in the bin , the onus is on the individual to fight their own corner against the assessors who are given targets to get people off disability benefits , it is a sick tory game

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Sorry that what i was meaning to say , there are loads of others cut off from benefits that killed themselves esp when IDS was in charge and the assessments were made harder , the assessments became inhumanising , i hate it when the brown envelope drops on the mat , they also take no notice of letters from drs so my dr says , they put them in the bin , the onus is on the individual to fight their own corner against the assessors who are given targets to get people off disability benefits , it is a sick tory game

I know, I quit my ESA job when it came in. It was horrendous.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I would agree to most of this but, and there is always a but, we need a cross section of society to represent us in our Parliament, and that includes the rich. How do we encourage them to take part if the remuneration does not cover their outgoings? It is OK if you are down here at the bottom where we are, I dream of having £82k a year but how do we encourage those well off to participate as well? Would you take a pay drop and maybe even lose money by becoming an MP?

You should become an MP because you're motivated by more than just money. The point of the salary is to allow people to become one who otherwise couldn't, not to compensate people for money they might be able to make doing something else. I'd be interested to know what percentage of current MPs are from extremely wealthy backgrounds compared to the general population. I'm pretty sure they're already massively overrepresented and always have been.

To be in the top 1% of earners in the UK, you only need to be on £160k. There are 650 MPs, so to be representative, there would need to be just 6 or 7 who would be sacrificing that status of a top 1% salary. There's more than that just in the current cabinet. £80k puts you in the top 5% of UK taxpayers so immediately by definition as soon as you're on an MPs salary you are relatively wealthy compared to most of the rest of the country. While it's arguably fair given their responsibility, it also means that they are rarely affected by the consequences of the decisions they make.

I personally think their salary should be tied directly to the median income of the country as a whole. That way if they do a good job and increase prosperity, they get a pay rise too. If they do a bad job and create loads of shitty zero hours jobs with crap wages, or cut benefits for poor families, then they get a pay cut too.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Blue Wall new Tories will love this - not. For so many who thought they had a ticket to a seat on the ideology money train will realise with even more clarity that what their party has done - what it is doing and what is coming down the track and facing the reality that their slim hard won majority will make them one term wonders. Johnson doesn't care he is totting up anecdotes so he can write his memoirs

 

[mat]

London Met have "No sufficient evidence" to investigate the tories over corruption.

The Home Office Bully must have word with Cressinda Dick.

 

[Postman Pep]

London Met have "No sufficient evidence" to investigate the tories over corruption.

The Home Office Bully must have word with Cressinda Dick.

Outsourced to Merseysides finest. Levelling up.

 

[bluethrunthru]

He's in the shit

COP26 deal will not pull Boris Johnson out of his Tory sleaze quagmire

From Hexham, Westminster and Glasgow the allegation of corruption has followed the Prime Minister all week

inews.co.uk

Quick panic - as if the Spartans and Old Guard will walk to cover his arse - fanciful

'Clearing out the old guard would be f***ing amazing': Tories grapple with sleaze row fallout

Insiders tell i Boris Johnson will be tempted to throw "officer class" under the bus and accelerate the rise of the Red Wallers to renew the party.

inews.co.uk

 

[mat]

So Northern Ireland or France?

As France aren't playing ball I'm guessing Norn Iron is about to kick off.