The Price Of Freedom

Now that we have all seen the wisdom of allowing lavish expenses to provide for the relief in hand of parliamentary and governmental spouses whilst their partners are away, then maybe it is time to see how else we can increase the rewards given to these great servant of our state. For we must accept, must we not, that these people go to a great deal of trouble to lord it over us, patronize and belittle us, and make our lives as awkward, miserable and as expensive as their seemingly almost limitless powers allow. So, it would make a great deal of sense to make sure they are too busy working out how to wangle more expenses out of the system, and then on spending those ill-gotten (if vastly deserved only in their own minds) monies rather than creating more useless, pointless and self-defeating legislation.

Just think, by way of example, wouldn’t you much prefer your local MP spent his time splashing out a few hundred quid on the oiled inner-thighs of some bored lap dancer rather than producing more egregious nonsense like this.

There has been some discussion recently of politicians jollies fact-finding trips to exotic foreign locales, but it should be regarded as money well-spent, for when the politicians are out of the country, then they are out of our lives and not making more useless, pointless legislation.

In the past, we always used to keep our politicians in the Houses of Parliament as we knew where they were and could stop them getting into trouble. However, with modern surveillance techniques this may be no longer necessary. So, perhaps instead of an Attendance Allowance, perhaps a Non-Attendance Allowance would make more sense these days. In addition, a bonus for NOT voting on legislation could possibly be introduced as a way of - if not stopping outright - then certainly reducing the scourge of politics that now so severely blights our once green and pleasant land.

In the past, it was always assumed that it was the primary function of civil servants to prevent the government of the day, and of whatever political stripe, from making legislation. However, with the advent of both Thatcherism (from the Right) and New Labour (from the Left, the real smug self-justifying middle class social-engineering left, not the pretending to be lovers of the working class pseudo-left) has destroyed this traditional function of the civil service. Consequently, it is now in need of urgent repair. Perhaps it should even be reconstituted on the continental (French) model where they learn to ignore legislation that emanates from the EU, as well as preventing our own national politicians from screwing things up even further by making new laws.

Therefore it must now seem obvious that every penny spent preventing politicians from screwing up our lives even more is a penny well spent.