HOW has Parliament attracted so many thugs, liars, perverts and assorted rogues and criminals over recent years?
Pick 650 members of the public at random and you’d find far fewer.
There have been serious allegations levelled against serving MPs over the past few yearsPA
Yet these are the supposed law- makers and representatives all the main parties offer up for election.
Consider the charge sheet against MPs expelled, suspended, axed by their party or convicted and jailed since 2019.
Drugs, corruption, anti-Semitism and other racism, sexting, sex harassment, child-sex offences, suspected rape, thuggery, domestic violence, bullying, serial groping, fraud, perverting justice, drunken yobbery, watching porn in the Commons, attending the Commons while knowingly infected with Covid, handing MPs’ private details to a blackmailer.
Now a Tory is alleged to have misused party funds . . . having previously been accused of intoxicating a dog.
And these are just those we know of.
Even among MPs not tainted by scandal, so many are dim chancers who would embarrass a parish council.
Why can’t we do better?
What are all parties doing to reinvent their vetting and selection processes?
Back to work
RISHI Sunak’s clampdown on sicknote Britain is music to our ears.
We just hope it’s put into action.
It is horrifying that 11million sicknotes were issued last year, with GPs signing off 94 per cent of afflicted patients.
They don’t want the hassle of turning anyone down.
So that assessment should perhaps be handled by dispassionate specialists briefed to presume people CAN work and figure out how.
“We need to be more ambitious about helping people back to work and more honest about over-medicalising everyday worries,” the PM says. Quite so.
Would a Labour Government maintain this sensible approach? We doubt it.
In power, the party effectively encouraged welfare dependency.
Kitchen stink
WHY is Angela Rayner’s story changing?
All along she has insisted the house she sold in 2015 was her main home, so exempt from capital gains tax.
Now comes a second defence — her kitchen refit would have been offset against any bill.
That’s irrelevant unless it WASN’T her main home. Was it, or wasn’t it?
And did Labour’s deputy leader and her now ex-husband pay tax when they sold their other pad? If not, why not?
Here’s another question. Why is Keir Starmer still foolishly pretending this is a “smear” by Tories, including the “billionaire” PM, on a “working-class woman”?
Working-class people hate little more than politicians swerving rules they impose on ordinary folk.
And 12 cops are probing multiple Rayner discrepancies and possible offences.
Are THEY billionaire Tories too?