Following the Pork Trail of British Politicos
Obviously scared by the outcry from the press and public alike, MPs are paying the taxpayers back and the Conservative leader has ordered his shadow cabinet to reimburse the taxpayer. Many, including members of the shadow cabinets, have resigned their position. Some are not seeking re-election next time around. Can you imagine if the tea party movement had this sort of effect on American politicians?
Organizations in the UK want access to information so they write an equivalent to the National Taxpayers’ Union’s (NTU) House expenses report. They produce things like the Bumper Book of Government Waste with reports of MPs’ graft and pork.
As seen in my interview with TPA’s Matthew Elliot, there is more sharing of tactics between taxpayers and anti-government waste organizations across the pond. They are making sure to learn from their mistakes, to keep the pressure on those that govern us, and ensure politicians are not fiddling their expenses. Despite what the politicians might believe, the public can clearly see the link between their rising taxes and the waste that emanates from government centers.
As part of the ever-growing tea party movement, there’s a very real possibility that there will be an increasingly loud call for politicians’ financial behavior to be more heavily scrutinized than it has been in the past.
The sort of abuse of power being demonstrated by the MPs in the UK and many of the members of the House and the Senate in the U.S. could come back to haunt them in 2010 — an election year on both sides of the Atlantic.
WOWIE. You broke it all down so succinctly! I hope the next tea parties really rear their patriotic heads in bigger numbers than before.
My only teensy fear is that people who come to the tea party rallies will be ridiculed or labled ‘radical’ or ‘extremist’ just by showing up. That being said, I think that was the whole reason why that stupid ‘leaked’ b.s. “extremist” propaganda chit against our military and religious right got play time.
What do I say to that?
Ohhhhh HELL to the NO!
Next tea party? I’m going to paint a sign that says, “Proud Right Wing Extremist!” With a big target in the middle of our UNITED STATES FLAG.
0bama? Yeah. Label us as ‘extremists’, you twat for brains, little peon puppet dung pile. Sorry if I’m not enamored of you or the third letter in your first name ‘pen’ you sack of feces for brains.
My sentiments to Borat DohBama:
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Label us all the dirty names they want for opposing Obamics, National Health Care and such–they are NOT going to be our friends.
“Proud Right Wing Extremist!” Unite!
Oh, and hell with the Brits–two World Wars and the Marshall Plan wasn’t enough? Somewhere between Concord and Yorktown I thought we settled that question.
Yankee come home, quit Europe, European ideas and damn near everywhere else.
So RobertG you think that British politics has nothing to teach American politics? Or vica-versa? The expense fiddling problem is rife in DC as well, as well as other pork-barreling behavior. Two different systems with the same problem and people angered enough to do something about it. That can only be a good thing for the anglosphere as a whole.
obama and the dems wanna steal from Darwin’s winners in order to prop up Darwin’s losers. swell.