Clearly the old 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' no longer applies..... Unless you're a day late with your self assessment submission and a regular joe.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr... I am not a bear, but, this little old lady pensioner, who still manages to get work as an actress, on lots of low budget indie projects, is doing a pretty good impersonation of one! (The actual animal! Not our wonderful human Bear 🐻) Actually, I'm also howling like a wolf! In-between carefully adding up my very low earnings, far exceeded by my expenses, to submit to HMRC 100% accurately in time for the deadline! Which, by the way, I'm reminded of by said HMRC by text and email at least twice a day for the last month! Grrrrrrrrrrrr... ps Love you Bear 🐻 xx
Nige always goes quiet when something he's done or hasn't done comes to light. After all the shouting over sex offenders, when his nephew was found guilty of upskirting, Nige went very quiet. At the moment with the tango turd, dissing our troops, Nige daren't open his mouth, he can't go against the turd, but he knows he can't say a word against our troops. Long may his silence rein though. If he's too incompetent to fulfil his parliamentary duties, he should be deemed way to busy to ever become prime minister.
Re Form - forgot to do it but it wasn’t on purpose so it doesn’t count. 🙄. At least it helps Angela to return to the frontline with head head held high, although no doubt sinners will have stones at hand.
A great post as usual, Bear. It's getting more and more obvious that if you are rich as WELL as right wing you can get away with pretty much anything, and if you're also the leader of a political party... well, the rules simply don't apply in any meaningful sense anymore so the whole world is your proverbial mollusc. All of it - the in-your-face double standards we see everywhere about everything - makes my fucking blood boil.
Not quite. It's only the leaders of right wing parties that can get away with murder because of who it is that owns (or runs in the case of the BBC) 99% of the media. Remember what happened to Corbyn when he led the Labour party? The media made him unelectable.
The media plays its part in a lot of things, for sure, but I was referring more to the holders of office not being held to account in any meaningful way by the parliamentary mechanics that ought to call them out. Johnson, and now Farage, show us that they can jog along unaffected by any kind of moral compass - inside Parliament itself - that ought to see them at the very least censured when they're found to have broken Parliament's own rules. If we peasants got caught doing half of what those two have been up to we'd be hauled in front of a magistrate.
If you are employed by a company with a contract for a job of work to do with agreement to fulfil the contract with attendance,hours etc,ALL of the MP,s sitting in Westminster should have to follow the same rules with a contract et al. Laughing Nige is smiling , holding reverse churchillian salute and purely taking the PISS! GET IT STOPPED.Farage is not the person to cajole the public in to making things better. If he is doing this to the nation,s power-what doe he REALLY think about you?
Surely the question needed next time he is interviewed " Well Nigel how do you think you are going to be able to run the country as PM when you admit you are already too busy and too incompetent to do the basic house-keeping of being an MP?"
So explain to me… why did Angela Rayner resign? It seems to me that politics in this country as well as across the pond is failing to hold anyone to account and we’ve entered a new age of “do-as-you-like-nobody’s-going-to-come-after-you…” unless you’re a self-employed, very busy, any-trade who’s one day late submitting their self assessment.
Another case of blaggard-in-chief presuming the rules don’t apply to him and having that assumption ratified by those who should be holding him to account.
There needs to be a Parliamentary "Bullsh1t and Bluster Buster" in charge of stopping this sort of thing from happening, but of course it is unlikely to ever happen, while those busy feeding from the trough are in charge of said trough.
There’s an inherent problem in that Parliament, in general, has no HR department, so there’s no oversight whatsoever until after the fact, and that oversight seems to be marking its’ own homework and massively ineffective.
Yes, some sort of fully independent outfit that applied rules similar to those in the ‘outside world’ would seem logical, but… turkeys/Christmas spring to mind?
Thank you for this, Bear. I've been quietly fuming about it myself ever since I heard about it. The point being, there's no point having rules that are so easily broken and excused. You might just as well not bother having the rules at all - which is almost certainly what Farage and his ilk would like to happen.
I guess the news that Cruella has joined Reform today broke after you wrote this piece. After Farage told the Daily Mail that he would not accept Braverman or Truss into his PLC (they're not really a party are they) for fear of the damage they'd do to Reform's reputation 🤣
Somewhat alarming that your irritation with Frogface had diminished of late. That means that his attempts to appear less 'controversial' in order to appeal to a wider voting base are working. I am NOT suggesting that the 'subdued' version of Nigel has encouraged you to vote for any of his revolting line up coz I'm not that daft but a slightly less iratus ursus does suggest that Great Auntie Gladys could be convinced that he's not so bad really.
Clearly the old 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' no longer applies..... Unless you're a day late with your self assessment submission and a regular joe.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr... I am not a bear, but, this little old lady pensioner, who still manages to get work as an actress, on lots of low budget indie projects, is doing a pretty good impersonation of one! (The actual animal! Not our wonderful human Bear 🐻) Actually, I'm also howling like a wolf! In-between carefully adding up my very low earnings, far exceeded by my expenses, to submit to HMRC 100% accurately in time for the deadline! Which, by the way, I'm reminded of by said HMRC by text and email at least twice a day for the last month! Grrrrrrrrrrrr... ps Love you Bear 🐻 xx
A paid for jolly to Davos this past week was his priority.
Nige always goes quiet when something he's done or hasn't done comes to light. After all the shouting over sex offenders, when his nephew was found guilty of upskirting, Nige went very quiet. At the moment with the tango turd, dissing our troops, Nige daren't open his mouth, he can't go against the turd, but he knows he can't say a word against our troops. Long may his silence rein though. If he's too incompetent to fulfil his parliamentary duties, he should be deemed way to busy to ever become prime minister.
Re Form - forgot to do it but it wasn’t on purpose so it doesn’t count. 🙄. At least it helps Angela to return to the frontline with head head held high, although no doubt sinners will have stones at hand.
I was going to comment on “…every time a senior politician is found to have broken the rules it’s framed as “regrettable, but understandable.”
But then I saw footnote 5 🙄
A great post as usual, Bear. It's getting more and more obvious that if you are rich as WELL as right wing you can get away with pretty much anything, and if you're also the leader of a political party... well, the rules simply don't apply in any meaningful sense anymore so the whole world is your proverbial mollusc. All of it - the in-your-face double standards we see everywhere about everything - makes my fucking blood boil.
Political *company* ...says it all
Not quite. It's only the leaders of right wing parties that can get away with murder because of who it is that owns (or runs in the case of the BBC) 99% of the media. Remember what happened to Corbyn when he led the Labour party? The media made him unelectable.
The media plays its part in a lot of things, for sure, but I was referring more to the holders of office not being held to account in any meaningful way by the parliamentary mechanics that ought to call them out. Johnson, and now Farage, show us that they can jog along unaffected by any kind of moral compass - inside Parliament itself - that ought to see them at the very least censured when they're found to have broken Parliament's own rules. If we peasants got caught doing half of what those two have been up to we'd be hauled in front of a magistrate.
If you are employed by a company with a contract for a job of work to do with agreement to fulfil the contract with attendance,hours etc,ALL of the MP,s sitting in Westminster should have to follow the same rules with a contract et al. Laughing Nige is smiling , holding reverse churchillian salute and purely taking the PISS! GET IT STOPPED.Farage is not the person to cajole the public in to making things better. If he is doing this to the nation,s power-what doe he REALLY think about you?
Hear hear
And a significant proportion of the electorate seem to think he is competent to be Prime Minister and run the country. 🤔
Here's hoping that by the time that proportion will have reduced to *insignificant*
Surely the question needed next time he is interviewed " Well Nigel how do you think you are going to be able to run the country as PM when you admit you are already too busy and too incompetent to do the basic house-keeping of being an MP?"
So explain to me… why did Angela Rayner resign? It seems to me that politics in this country as well as across the pond is failing to hold anyone to account and we’ve entered a new age of “do-as-you-like-nobody’s-going-to-come-after-you…” unless you’re a self-employed, very busy, any-trade who’s one day late submitting their self assessment.
Another case of blaggard-in-chief presuming the rules don’t apply to him and having that assumption ratified by those who should be holding him to account.
Angela was asked to resign because Starmer wants a Labour Party that is 100% squeaky clean without so much as a mouse skeleton in the cupboard.
Well… seems he failed miserably, did he not? Sadly, Rachael Reeves got away with it, didn’t she? And I’m sure there are more just like them!
There needs to be a Parliamentary "Bullsh1t and Bluster Buster" in charge of stopping this sort of thing from happening, but of course it is unlikely to ever happen, while those busy feeding from the trough are in charge of said trough.
Well growled Bear!
There’s an inherent problem in that Parliament, in general, has no HR department, so there’s no oversight whatsoever until after the fact, and that oversight seems to be marking its’ own homework and massively ineffective.
Yes, some sort of fully independent outfit that applied rules similar to those in the ‘outside world’ would seem logical, but… turkeys/Christmas spring to mind?
I'm too busy to do my self assessment, so that's fine then? I'll let HMRC know.
What do you expect when the whole system was written by aristocrats for aristocrats.
Any of us normies had such egregious 'errors' we'd be walking off with a P45 and maybe a criminal investigation.
Parliament needs some proper reform and given some teeth
Thank you for this, Bear. I've been quietly fuming about it myself ever since I heard about it. The point being, there's no point having rules that are so easily broken and excused. You might just as well not bother having the rules at all - which is almost certainly what Farage and his ilk would like to happen.
I guess the news that Cruella has joined Reform today broke after you wrote this piece. After Farage told the Daily Mail that he would not accept Braverman or Truss into his PLC (they're not really a party are they) for fear of the damage they'd do to Reform's reputation 🤣
Somewhat alarming that your irritation with Frogface had diminished of late. That means that his attempts to appear less 'controversial' in order to appeal to a wider voting base are working. I am NOT suggesting that the 'subdued' version of Nigel has encouraged you to vote for any of his revolting line up coz I'm not that daft but a slightly less iratus ursus does suggest that Great Auntie Gladys could be convinced that he's not so bad really.