Hypocritical public, here is a band wagon, hop on.

It must be recognised that everything has probably been said regarding the MPs expenses issue. I am not here to bang on about the rights and wrongs, the moral dilemmas or the braking of the rules/not braking of the rules. It’s been done by the media already. They have created a bandwagon for the public of the U.K. to jump on and they have leapt into the arms of Fleet Street driver like a bluebottle into the blue neon glow of an electric fly zapper.

My gripe is not with the MPs, it is with the hypocrites of this nation, the adorable British public. Since the Telegraph have let trickle, on a daily basis, a new snippet of information regarding an other member of parliament who some editor or journo has ear marked for an ousting, there has been no shortage of outrage expressed by “the good old” tax paying public on television, radio, the written press and the blogosphere.

I, not for a moment, would agree that some of these claims are not morally questionable nor in some cases, as time will tell, fraudulent but will not sit and condemn the actions of MPs. Why? Because if I was a serving member of parliament, I would be claiming for the exact same types of “luxuries” permitted within the rules as the MPs have. The vast majority of the British people who say they wouldn’t are frankly, nothing more than lying scumbags.

As the speaker of the house is forced to resign, as a scapegoat, and in doing so is the first in 314 years to be booted from the chair, I as a member of his parliamentary constituency have to look around this area and laugh with much contempt at the vile hypocrisy I see before me. Do not be fooled, I in no way think that Speaker Martin, the man who is chuffer driven to Celtic park every other week at the tax payers expense, when I have to walk everywhere because I can’t afford the bus, is either a good speaker or reprehensive of his constituency. To be fair, I was over joyed to hear that not only is he sanding down as speaker but also as an MP, forcing a by election in Glasgow North East, my home, and restoring democracy to Springburn.

For those of you who have never voted in a constituency that is the home of the speaker, let me enlighten you to the voting procedure, the waste of a walk to the polling station, the denial of democracy that is Election Day in the speaker’s town. Unfortunately as the speaker is “suppose” to show no political bias, the main stream parties do not appose the re-election of the speaker. Thus the constituents are giving a voting slip, which most can’t tell the difference from a betting slip, which looks vaguely as this:

1. the speaker of the house seeking re-election
2. far right Nazis
3. extreme left communists and Marxists
4. tree huggers and woolly hat wearing party
5. None of the above, I am off back to the pub

A fine choice for the modern young voter, I must admit. Since Michael Martin has had the sheer good fortune of being a member for the Labour party, which is frankly woven into the fabric of this uneducated, alcoholic and drug abusing, non manifesto reading, can’t tell you why they vote labour apart from the fact the priest told them to constituency and with the benefit of no creditable opposition his re-election is assured. This leaves the constituents with an MP with no vote in parliament and us with no voice, the Commons with a speaker who knows not of procedure, is completely bias to the government in debate and treats the job as though he where a shop steward rather than the third most important person in the political landscape.

I am sure I have shown without constraint that I am no admirer of speaker Martin but what caused me to gag even more is the vile thieving constituents, crawling from the political wood work to slate the man. Let’s look at Springburn, home of what was once the greatest centre of railway manufacturing in Europe. Not any more because the “good” people of Springburn stole so much from the factories they were laid bare and forced to close. It was strongly believed around Springburn in the 80s, when Martin rose to power, that there was more British rail carpet in the homes of Springburn than there was in BR headquarters and waterloo station combined. Every where you went, some one knew a person who “worked in the Cali” which was the wheel turning plant. Every home in Springburn for 20 years had either BR or an intercity logo embroiled on something.

I say to you people of Springburn,

Look at form you filled in for your disability living allowance you neither need nor deserve. Those of you who are as disabled as an Olympic athlete and who lie and cheat your way to the cash because you are either bone idol or use it to supplement the undeclared scaffolding job you have. Look at the forms you fill in for your long term unemployment benefit. Is it truthful?, did you really apply for any jobs this week?, not a chance on earth, you lazy scrounger. Look at the form for your mobility car, do you really need a car because of that fake limp? No, you have that car because you are exploiting a system. Finally to you, my favourite of them all, the tax credit sucking leech that is the single parent. When you are drinking your tax credits in a night club rather than spending time with your child, when you are asking a sap of a man to move in to your paid for house/flat, are you going to declare this fact? Not a chance hypocrite. None of you have any right to censure the speaker or any other MPs until you actually start paying taxes and only then can you question what they are actually spent on.

My opinion is not confined to the people of Springburn, I say to you, the people next to the closed Rover factory, who have houses painted British racing green, the same. To the Fleet Street journo who asks the cabbie for a blank receipt so he/she can claim twice as much, the same thing. To the tradesmen who are sitting drinking beer with the difference made going to the cheaper hotel, when the boss thinks you’re in decent accommodation, the same.

Do not be hypocrites Britons, do not condemn what you would do and are doing and will do again until the day you die. See this scandal for what it really is, mega rich media tycoons ousting a government from power in vengeance for a recession that has lost them billions collectively. Step down from the band wagon.