MPs - Can you be too rich to be a serving Member of Parliament?
Watch this postWhat do you think? Can you be too rich to be a serving Member of Parliament? Or do you need to have an income at an average of the general public?
Well my opinion is that this must work both ways. I do not fully understand the problems of the super rich. Or the huge struggles and problems of the poor. I have empathy as a retired support worker,my social care training taught me a lot as did twenty years employment in the care sector. Trying to see the differences whilst remaining non judgemental requires not only empathy but all the tolerance you can muster.
My father and I were always the poor relations but as I retired I was very grateful to receive an inheritance from two of my aunts. So in conclusion I can't reach an answer as to whether having a fortune ( how many millions or billions is that?) precludes people from.becoming a MP. You can be poor or rich and then circumstances change and the rich become poor and the poor become rich. Let's take money out of the question.
I would prefer people to be valued on their abilities chiefly I would be a lot happier to hear and see honesty in all politicians.We all have our dreams.
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I think let them eat bogofs will result in another summer of discontent, so get ready for more riots and looting in our city’s.
Perhaps we should adopt the guillotine for party-gate ministers.
Meanwhile the big businesses make eye watering profits at the expense of the ordinary people,
the triple lock on pensions was frozen, how many pensioners who will freeze to death this winter and not for the first time under a Tory government.
For me outing Bogof has little to do with the ability to feed people...
The best way forward is the offers
However, what we are seeing - is how uneducated people are, coz they are all mixed up..
Some idiots believe the only to solve the Cost of Living crisis is to increase wages. but all that will do is spark more price rises, and inflate costs again..
The problem is we have around 46m between 16 and 70 of working age - and the majority earn next to nothing
6m are in education, a result of various poor plans, depending on the time of year 12m to 20m volunteer, About 9m (one in 5) are disabled in Britain.. No wonder the coffers are empty and there is no help, People on benefits are frightened of looking for work, coz they know they are a good thing at the moment
I wish our politicians could listen more to ordinary folk and take heed, and that the System would allow them to vote freely with their consciences and not just by Party command issued by the Whips!, It seems much of our recent laws are badly framed and rushed through without being properly thought out, so causing more problems than they solve in many instances.
No one is simplifying things - everyone is adding more choices and therefore more division and minorities.
We live in a system that rewards failure and crime, those that do the right get passed over
Look at mental illness, we are a species that relies on contact and interaction, but we live in isolation, hiding behind mobile phones and pc's.
Look at obesity, we do less but still feed our faces, look at the sales of ebikes, carts and bicycles with assisted motors, look at the sales of supplements and vitamins
And there is more, we live in a time of ultimate hypocrisy
Politicians trying to please all and failing badly
Modern society does not seem to produce the outstanding figures that worked their way through life and really wanted to give back, nor does it have the stairways there used to be for young people from all backgrounds to climb the ladder of life through an education system that does not anchor them with life long debts. Upward mobility is rarely achievable these days.
It seems to me that our society is broken and I do not know how it can be mended.
I compare to my youth which was in recovery from WW 2 there seemed to be better values. A better sense of community. Perhaps poverty does that to a population. I was one of the upwardly mobile children from those days and the grammar school system. From a council house, with one 'best dress' to a middle class teacher.
Life seems to have become more complicated with the rise of IT and the internet and expectations have increased. Marketing and the media have afar greater influence on people now some thing I was never exposed to. I think my generation were more grounded.
Boris hasn't done this country much good so hopefully when he goes we'll have some who behaves like a grown up.
I think that corruption in society is a great sin and I'm normally a very tolerant person.
I tell my son all societies have corruption and that is why it is paramount to have good journalists to expose them. I would rather live in my society where there is free speech than china where you daren't say the wrong thing and get a knock at the door to take you away.
I tend to think let the rich be rich I don't envy them and their worries about loosing what they have. mind I wouldn't mind a bit extra on my pensions. Just give me a 'stable' society. To me that's more important for me. It's the time for the young people to try and change things.