Mock Election 2008

The Expenses Scandal is Over

Finally, the ex-Tory peer in the House of Lords, Lord Taylor, was given a ruling in a court in the UK. He was sent to jail for 12 months for falsely claiming expenses at the amount of nearly 12,000 GBP and thus the case became a significant legal landmark that would remain a common law rule in the future.

The Tory Lord Taylor of Warwick was a prominent barrister and the first black Conservative peer. His impressive legal career leaves no room to suggest that exactly such a person, so familiar with the peculiarities and requirements of the law, would actually break it in such a gross way. Nevertheless, the Lord has claimed an disproportionate sum of money to cover his expenses. He has listed his Oxford house as his main residence and has claimed travel expenses plus expenses generated while residing in London. However, it was discovered that the peer has never actually lived in his property in Oxford and has mainly resided in London and that his travel expenses would not amount to more than a couple of thousands that he would be able to claim.

What happened with Lord Taylor’s case strongly concerned the Parliament and the people from the high courts. Such precedents might not be a unique exception and it is a probable case that others are also violating the law by daring to over claim expenses. Definitely, MPs and peers do not use cheap flights around the world. In addition to that, their travel expenses might be overestimated as they indicate one property as their own and actually reside in another, rather convenient one. The fact that Lord Taylor said before the court that he has been advised to do so by his colleagues is disturbing enough and might lead to further investigations in the area.

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James Purnell Proposition

Former pension minister James Purnell has urged the labour government to reconsider its position on political leadership and reliance upon financial means. According to the expert economist, the current state of political aspirations for the rulers is coping with deficit rather than caring for the society.

Tackling deficit has been a problem for David Cameron who needed to make changes as horrifying as the debt of the country. However, the amounting pressure among the people in the realm is provoked not by the politics of voting reform and not even the student finance controversy that recently exploded, but the stability of the nation. Instead of focusing on quite undermining techniques like cutting jobs, the labours could have undertaken a slightly different approach.

James Parell has indicated in front of colleagues, unofficially, that the UK had another route. It is being owed quite a lot of money from different international organizations and also quite a few countries both from the Commonwealth and from other areas in the world. These are exterior signs which indicate possible routes for attracting finance. Also, attracting investment from other European countries like Germany could have been easily achieved if the government has focused on the dialogue with the European Union and on ensuring the rightfulness of the European Law.

The people in the UK do not really need cuts – they have had enough of that. They need to see real money running across the country because this is what the UK lacks the most at the moment. Collecting some old debt would be a good step towards ensuring a more stable economic environment. And providing political mechanisms for attracting investments is just another possible way of getting money into the Kingdom quickly and efficiently.

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The Big Problem with Our Politics.

Have you ever stopped to wonder why so many of our politicians will end up making a total hash of things? And it really doesn’t matter which of the main parties you are talking about either; Conservatives, Labour or Liberal Democrats.

Well, part of the answer is that all of our politicians are human and humans will always make mistakes. And unfortunately, there is precious little we can do to change this. However, there is something which could be done about the other part of the problem… the part that decides which type of people it will be who make the big decisions in Parliament.

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