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[Nickbat]

Can't think where to put this as there are some many political threads on the go, but here is as good a place as any:

“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt for all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice;

ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government;

ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage…

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you?

Is there one vice you do not possess?

Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your god; which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes?…

Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; ye were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, and are yourselves gone…

In the name of God, go!”

Oliver Cromwell, 1653 & Nickbat, 2009 

.....an individual known by and referred to both by myself and Ms Zoom on a number of occasions Nick.   Can't say he was wrong in his assertion

Indeed, Zulu.

Just felt like venting my spleen in an explosive fashion. 

...and especially when I read this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5456789/mps-expenses-Gordon-Brown-billed-taxpayer-for-two-second-homes.html 

lookee here nick - this might interest you 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191155/Claims-David-Cameron-30m-fortune-sit-uneasily-taxpayers-So-truth-money.html

doesn't get the same coverage tho...

I don't give a hoot if he has £30m or £30bn. It's whether he can steer UK policies in the right direction that matters. As yet, I'm not 100% convinced he can, but his personal wealth is totally irrelevant.

[Banjax]

it's not the personal wealth, nickbat - it's the fact that "he paid off the £75,000 mortgage on the £1.5 million home in North Kensington, London, that he owns with his wife Samantha, after they took out a £350,000 taxpayer-funded HSBC mortgage on his designated Oxfordshire constituency second home."

that makes him look a tad grasping.....happily profiting from our hard earned tax - but he makes all the right noises about how the system needs cleaning and he'll root out any wrong-doing - brushing his own "creative accounting" under the carpet!

i just find it odd that most papers and media have shied away from examining this - and the Daily Mail - of all papers  didn't.


Anyway bud, looks like Camerons a shoe in so we'll see what he's made of soon enough!   

[albitz]

A descendant of King William IV
I went to the same prep school as Prince Edward then on to Eton and Oxford.
I spent 3months in Hong Kong in a job daddy(a wealthy stockboker married to the daughter of a Baronet) arranged for me.I now wish to represent the people of Britain along with 18 of my chums from Eton - and it looks like I'll get my wish....
I have a worm-like appearance and no policies.

Who am I?     :-?

Have a look at the family background/wealth/connections of Harriet Harman and Sean Woodward.

[Banjax]

A descendant of King William IV
I went to the same prep school as Prince Edward then on to Eton and Oxford.
I spent 3months in Hong Kong in a job daddy(a wealthy stockboker married to the daughter of a Baronet) arranged for me.I now wish to represent the people of Britain along with 18 of my chums from Eton - and it looks like I'll get my wish....
I have a worm-like appearance and no policies.

Who am I?     :-?

Have a look at the family background/wealth/connections of Harriet Harman and Sean Woodward.

i don't disagree Albs - all parties have their fair share of the wealthy and titled - just DC seems to surround himself with more than most - ironically an image he's trying to ditch - difficult when your MPs claim for moats to be cleaned, tennis courts dug up and duck islands