Monday 4 April 2016

It's a Full House




It is interesting to note that in Korea and Japan a Turkey is seen to be a bird of more than one face, and this is reflected in the names they have given it, a Chilmyeonjo and Shichimencho respectively. This description could easily apply to the majority of MPs in our parliament who continually show one face to the public when they are trying to get elected and another when they have been. It goes without saying that if Turkeys got the vote they wouldn’t vote for Christmas, so it comes as no surprise when the chancellor looked for cuts for his budget he looked everywhere else except in the Turkey coop. Perhaps he should remember that there is a stocking density for Turkeys and it is an issue when it comes to their welfare, over stocking leads to aggressive behaviour and violent encounters.

Ever since implementing the requirements of EU regional policies in 1998 we have seen an explosion in the government of the United Kingdom and the cost must now be enormous to what it was prior to devolution. We now have four separate parliaments were once we had only one, all full of MPs of every description and all supported with increases in their own civil services, and all being paid huge amounts of money, yet we have seen no reduction of MPs in the British Parliament to match. The Turkey Farm has been growing and it’s been growing at England’s expense, and while the Turkeys are getting fat the English pheasants are queuing at food banks, and all the time the old and disabled wondering how long it will be before the Turkeys stop them getting there by removing their bus passes and benefits.

Joining the EU has been catastrophic for the English, economically, politically, and culturally, for now the English have to subsidise the upkeep of not only all of these extra national parliaments at home, but also those of less well off countries in the EU. At the same time the English are being denied a national parliament of their own which is allowing the British to downgrade their nation to immigrant status in their own homeland. In order to save British power and the jobs of British MPs that would have to be lost if England gained a parliament, the government supported by EU policies of multiculturalism is trying to destroy England’s unified state with the creation of British multicultural regions. It is now seen has a terrible sin if any area across England is predominantly English, and school teachers are being encouraged to downgrade the teaching of English culture and values as the country gradually takes up the appearance of a European colony.

UK’s three other nations have their own MPs and representatives to defend their culture, and successive governments have hived off responsibility for their domestic affairs to them. Besides there being no reduction in British MPs in the UK parliament there has been no reduction in their salaries either, on the contrary they have been given increases far above the national average and now have so much less to do and more time to do it that they are getting bored, so now take longer holidays and other jobs. The best fed Turkeys are the British MPs elected from the devolved nations to serve in the UK parliament, these people have even less to do and can spend their time plotting against England and looking after their own nation’s interest. They have hardly if any constituent responsibility because that has been passed to an MP in their own country’s parliament, yet the British government is paying these MPs the same money as those elected by us in England who have.

When did you last here of any British MP we elected complaining, or complaining about the fact that we in England can’t chose them, elect them or get rid of them, and can like recently vote against England, this time to stop the control of Sunday trading rules being passed to our local councils. The only complaints we here from most of those British MPs who are supposed to be representing England are complaints about the introduction of the English votes for English Law policy which they say creates two types of MP, why they think we don’t have that now shows how much our education standards have fallen.

It is a serious matter when over 40% of the work previously done by the UK parliament has been passed to the minor nations and there has not been a major cut in British MPs or their salaries. Besides losing this work the UK parliament has also lost at the lowest estimate 50% of its law making powers to the EU, most of which are now introduced by ministers with little or no parliamentary debate. Why too are the Turkeys being allowed to keep increasing the numbers of people in the House of Lords next door, and being allowed to continue using it as a retirement home for their friends and family, both from here and abroad, it’s diminishing the house impartiality? Not to mention another created load of MEPs who swan off on day trips to Europe everyday at our expense, pretending they are defending UK interests, for sure they don’t even pretend they are making an attempt to defend England’s. No wonder the majority of British MPs want to remain in the EU, under EU management they have never had it so good, and if its left to them it wont be long before they use the EU multicultural policies to create another lot of little regional Turkey farm parliaments across England, which rather than increasing democracy diminishes it. When they say we are all in it together they are talking to their like, they are not talking about the publics suffering under austerity, they are talking about the EU gravy train they are all taking part in.

There needs a major constitutional change in the UK and it’s not one that should be left to an undemocratic EU.

                                                               J. Stanhope  

                               West Midlands Campaign for an English Parliament