Not in ‘safe’ seats. My local MP has been in his seat, without challenge, for over 30 years. He barely does anything. There’s never been a democratic challenge. He has zero accountability because it’s a rural conservative constituency. And people vote Tory, because that’s just what’s always happened. I think it would be better if MP’s had term limits. An MP should be limited to two parliaments and then must take a break of at least one Parliament and then they can stand again.
Oh now be fair. Krooked Karseng devalued the ££££ to such an extent on top of inflation and huge interest rate rises - how else is the poor man supposed to keep the lights on? You know, like the rest of us....can't.
Are you happy with the poor scared army of young fighting age men managing to get across the busiest shipping lane in the world in rubber boats ,unchecked to then disappear at the taxpayers expense?
If you ever thought you were prepared to die for what you believed Britain stood for, maybe time to think again? Because you may need to lay down your life to protect your family from what Britain has become.
Nobody in the West will now die for the dirty wars of corrupt politicians. That is why there’ll never be a draft to send people to fight Russia. This complete loss of faith in institutions is also why the establishment will try to turn the West into some kind of dictatorship - because soon there’ll be no consent to be governed, but only the fear of being shot.
The Britain I would fight for no longer exists ' in my own lifetime my country has changed to the point I do not relate to it at all' my nation of England is also unrecognisable.
An excellent portrait of just how low many MPs have sunk in both public expectations of them and experiences. They regularly fail the public and expect forgiveness.
Thank you Douglas for telling it how it is. These corrupt unscrupulous scumbags must be exposed for what they are and punished and ridiculed before custodial sentences.
I write to my MP often but get back a standard letter clearly written by “head office”.There is no point thinking the main parties are there to help us, the very opposite is true.A massive wake up is here.
So, campaign against them, meet them, join local community groups and make case to dump them. I've almost always had very diligent MPs who reply personally and bang heads together to devise solutions to stuff that arises in their constituency or raise questions on HoC. Just because you've got a lousy MP doesn't mean everyone has a louse as MP.
@@cuebj I did try to stand as a county councillor and did OK but people prefer corrupt politicians.Thee is no political solution until morality is a widespread value.I write every month but what don’t you understand about getting a reply in the form of“ standard letter “ no answer at all ?
The quality of MP's from all sides has never been so poor. An MP should be treated as quite a senior position, you have to work and build up an experience profile that matches the role, you should not be able to graduate and become an MP without real experience, not just a member of the university debating society.
As a Dutchman I sometimes wonder how the Brits with their rich traditions let their foremost state-institution be so readily captured by corporate career middlemen grifters, utterly devoid of intellect, courage and integrity.
and the few decent MPs we have - mostly Labour and SNP, certainly not a single Tory - the Labour party is doing their utmost to either expell or sideline
@@36AccountsBlockedRIP as an englishman I wonder too - it truly baffles me. I talk to my boomer step-father and he believes in government investment in infrastructure, unions, social housing, welfare state, state pensions etc - but insists that everyone would be better off by voting conservative - and he's not a corner case, he's the mainstream. If you poll Britons on policy, we are in the majority fairly left wing, if you ask us to vote in a general election we return a right wing government
@@5ynthesizerpatel SNP???? Are you not aware what is happening in Scotland right now? Take your red tinted specs off and look around, we are governed by a mono-party, only the head of the hydra changes.
@@5ynthesizerpatel To my outsider's eye there has been a steady decline in the credentials, convictions, intellect and integrity of your MPs since the 70s, but things really took a nose-dive these last two decades. I haven't looked if a similar trend has taken place in the House of Lords, where the same qualities matter. Similarly a noted decline has taken place in the honorability and prestige of these vital positions, in the public view at least, which is easier to explain in my view. Nowadays as you rightly state Labour seem to be actively recruiting incapable empty suits or capable but sinister types, whilst expelling or sidelining honest and capable people, perhaps because the whole system is now even more geared towards doing the bidding of special interests. Labour, like the Democrats in the US, also seem to be obsessed with distractions such as identity politics and a lot of other waffling having long strayed from their core principles.
Beginning of democracy only men voted, now most voters are women. Explains why the bias employment, healthcare, custody and support laws. After stealing the kids, they then steal the support payments, steal the house and the jobs. Women dominating the ballot box is why there is this madness.
No our parlienment needs to be disbanded, dissolved. The system is rotten from top to bottom, no amount of tweeking will repair it, ever institution is this country is corrupt to the core. From that WEF traitor king Charles the turd, what an arrogant parasitic piece of scum. Politicians a waste of space, judiciary corrupt to the core, the pigs in blue who protect this scum, never trust these bastard!! Then we have the poxy money grabbing corrupt thieving councils who take there cue from the WEF, civil servants telling their masters US the people what they can and can't do. This whole corrupt rotten system, living off of the people, a bunch of useless evil, parasitic filthy scum. That felt good😂
I disagree with him here. Even if we paid them 10 times what they're currently on,with the caveat that they don't then need second jobs, they would still be looking around to get more fingers in more pies. They would just become even more slippery and sneaky about it.
if these people were not so corrupt and disingenuous and discredited as pointless liars then folk would think better of them I'm sure, politicians cant expect any respect when their whole existence depends on telling lies.
Mine sadly is easily picked out WILL lose his seat at next election mostly because I believe he will not be standing again, his name is Sajid Javed. No doubt they will parachute in yet another "nowhere person" to become our MP, or some box ticking fluff or other.
That is the problem with our crappy anachronistic Worst Past The Post voting system. It creates too many 'Donkey Constituencies' whereby you can hang a blue or red rosette on a donkey and it gets voted into parliament. It is not healthy for our democracy. The Australian style Preferred Candidate system or Proportional Representation would be better. It would allow newparties to break through, stop the Donkey Constituencies and more importantly it means that a voters vote actually matters.
@@clovermark39 Sounds like your mp's voters are a complete waste of time also , but how do you get rid of the voters that keep putting him/her into gov. ?
The brilliant Douglas Murray once again. I loved the point about Labour MP`s although loving to criticize Tory MP`s for being caught in trying to do business deals, but then are happy to sign up to a slot on the UNLISTENABLE LBC!
Between this and the text leaks, Hancock is getting quite a kicking. Much like other career criminals, the small bit that has been exposed is likely only the tip of an iceberg in what we know is a very deep sea.
But he has made a lot of money doing it as a minister. A well remunerated life so far for which he is either too dim to realise he's a laughing stock or he doesn't care as long as the cash keeps rolling in
Those chasing the money are cheats, fakes, selfish, disgusting predators. They are neglecting their sworn duties and should be punished for that. It sickens me to the core.
But look at the senior / middle management of any public company. The rot is everywhere. What amazes me is that these people have children! What a wreckage they’re leaving behind.
After the cash for questions scandal MPs were saying thar they should be paid at least £100k because thats would be paid in the private sector so the Hansard Society did a survey of ex MPs and found that only 3% were earning as much or more than they did as an MP. The other 97% earned the average industrial wage. The free market spoke and found them only worthy to be paid as.a car mwchanic. Such is the pit we we now find ourselves.
We would get better results if we swopped mps for mechanics and other technical people that operate in the real world. Might find some of the unsolveable problems like the dinghy people getting fixed rather fast.
The situation now in UK politics is fairly desperate as the MP's seem to have little interest in representing the views of their constituents OR in fact doing the job of an MP and servicing the constituency, but serving themselves. The country cannot afford the number of politicians and civil servants, Lords and Ladies who are in the majority not serving the public. The salaries of MP's have increased to over twice the average living wage of the public, yet most MP's seem to think being an MP is a part time job. If they take additional work it should be explained that under IR35 they should be paying Tax and NICS on ALL their income. However, I think the public would prefer that MP's should be prohibited from taking additional employment as we see often it is a conflict of interest and they cannot be trusted.
Love Douglas Murray, he reported on the trans movement years ago and just made my jaw drop. He is the smartest man we could listen to in the US and UK.
Of course the competent citizen finds himself elsewhere; the last place an honest intellectual would seek is the house. When did we start assuming that representatives should not have self-interest? Pretending not to take a special kind of sleaze. Enter the consummate liars. Murray would be absolutely wasted as an MP. At least in this century.
MPs should get the minimum wage and should not be allowed second jobs. They should have no privacy in regard to their financial affairs. Only then will we see which people really want to enter politics 'to make a difference to the lives of the people of this great country'.
@@robertcook2572 no true democrat would opt to disenfranchise the electorate like that. Having advised many politicians over the years, while they are all pretty shit, what we have is considerably better than what is being offered up here as alternatives.
I hope it is a problem for all of the MP's that move from that work to another work providing that they had voted against the good will of the people because of their selfishness
@@qcsorter4626 🤷 every company I have worked for has had a higher level of diversity than the local population and that includes the nhs. Where I live there isn’t even an option to see a white doctor because every single practice is populated by all other shades of diversity. Unless it’s purpose is to increase the percentage of white staff, then creating a diversity department in any of those organisations is like putting self-scan tills in supermarkets - doing someone who’s actually going to do the work out of a job.
Not a full-time job? First time I heard that. Aren't there dozens of select committees, constituency work, policy development. I don't see they should have time for second jobs never mind third and fourth if they're doing the first diligently.
If their second jobs were actual work rather than bribery to get their spin into parliament . The MPs might also begin to appreciate the people they represent .
@@johnnyrocker7495 No, I want Douglas Murray to come to my house, shake me warmly by the hand, and personally thank me for my acts of loyalty and service. Come on pal, lighten up. It's a CZcams comment section - it doesn't have to be that serious 😉
Anyone else remember Geoff Hune, minister of defence under Blair, falling for the same sting to be a paid consultant for access to government. Labour doesn't, l'll bet!
I find it impossible to believe that an MP can find time for a second job . Running the country cannot be that easy . An empty chamber during most days tells you that they don't take it seriously ,or just don't care .
I have watched Douglas for many years ,He has had some bad hits from people who really do not like what he says…Well Douglas you are just what is needed in this cray world ….So keep up the good work,don’t let them get you down.. (as my mother used to say …).
A very eloquent message of truth from a reliable and trustworthy man. Halve the number of MPs, double their pay, with the requirement that it is their only job and that they actually do it. Their performance should be constantly assessed and those failing should be voted out as and when necessary.
Perennial because nothing is done about it..... Meanwhile I watched a speech to the EMPTY house concerning the abominable side effects of this new medical intervention which was proclaimed necessary by the government. Were these people all at their ' other job ' , were they in their constituencies advising their constituents , or were they basking on some Mediterranean beach in a holiday funded by Big Pharma. The process needs to be absolutely transparent. Most of all , they can't police themselves and actions need to have consequences. They're all there when the debate is how much to raise their parly salaries then.......... 🤡 World 100%
Well, we just had Johnson and his cronies so we can easily imagine how their equivalents in Labour would function. There are chancers on both sides and diligent honest people on both sides
The Spectator should take heed and pay attention to what *"Led by Donkeys"* managed to pull off here. Much like Project Veritas, they held TRUTH TO POWER, POWER TO ACCOUNT. Real investigative journalism. Not OPINION PIECE AFTER OPINION PIECE where we learn nothing except YOUR OPINION.
The former Labour Party MP for the Greenwich & Woolwich Constituency, Mr Nick Raynsford, used to earn vastly more from consultancy work than he did as an MP. It is no surprise that he nearly always opposed what constituents wanted, especially when it came to building developments.
More relevant is the book by Mr Wolf of the FT concerning the pitiful condition and frighteningly unstable fate faced by the collapsing UK. MPs just generally pee around and have no effect upon anything significant.
The West/ the Global American Empire is in real structural economic decline. Decades of open borders Globalisation has hollowed us out in the interests of international finance capitalism.
Having a second job is as old as the hills, however taking a job as an advisor to say, a pharmaceutical company in a “ plandemic “ whilst a serving MP is a conflict of interests.. but that would never happen …. Would it ?
As long as you don't follow his tripe on the Ukraine's crisis as he was shown around Kherson falling for his handlers (SBU) handler propaganda reiterating Putin just woke up one morning & decided to invade Ukraine with it's thriving democracy & frendly LGBT Azov fighters.
@@magnacarta9364 You Putin fanboys are hilarious. Keep crying. We already got Finland in NATO. I'm excited to see Russia collapse as it did in 1917 and 1991!
@@mrnice7570 Tolerate Russia? Why would anyone tolerate those mass murdering scumbags? They're responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of East Europeans(not to mention Western/Northern Europeans/Central Asians as well) just within the last century. This is why they're hated in Poland, Ukraine, Germany, Estonia, Finland, etc. They don't even respect their own population and brutalize them. They get no "tolerance" from me.
A bunch of independently wealthy men of 150 years ago is starting to seem not so bad! The theory was that men of means, breeding, honour were 'disinterested' to lures of money or fame. Honour was a thing.
Like most of the Tories at present? Many of the wealthy seems to have no end to their selfishness, desiring tax breaks for the wealthy and cuts to services to the poor. Homelessness and the decay of public health and education services are symptoms. They mouth virtue but act evilly.
I am surprised Mat Hancock Didn't pause and say "..........What is sterling?" I want our policy makers to have the ability to earn six figures before they take office.
I whole heartedly agree with Douglas' point that there should be less MPs who are paid significantly more. As Douglas says, the role of MP has seen a significant drop in status. This needs to be addressed.
Douglas has got it backwards here. Offering MPs an even larger basic salary will attract even more demons of greed and corruption. The solution is to base hiring on a whole new rigid set of criteria that isn't simply: go to Eton college, and then start on 80k per year. It's an utter disgrace. MPs should have a basic minimum wage rate that is added to the median average UK salary. This would amount to around 45k per year, and it adds the incentive of increasing the salaries of the working class.
It isn't just a question of making money but influence. He who pays the piper and all that. When MP's leave politics they take their connections with them. The permanent layers of power above parliament make all the serious decisions, so this debate is rather redundant.
The one job they don't do is represent British people.
Not in ‘safe’ seats. My local MP has been in his seat, without challenge, for over 30 years. He barely does anything. There’s never been a democratic challenge. He has zero accountability because it’s a rural conservative constituency. And people vote Tory, because that’s just what’s always happened. I think it would be better if MP’s had term limits. An MP should be limited to two parliaments and then must take a break of at least one Parliament and then they can stand again.
READ MY POST ABOVE.
Toffs /bankers , big pharma and the UK snowflakes are
Hear hear
Oh now be fair. Krooked Karseng devalued the ££££ to such an extent on top of inflation and huge interest rate rises - how else is the poor man supposed to keep the lights on? You know, like the rest of us....can't.
Most of the politicians don’t even deserve their wages!
Meanwhile I couldn’t afford the salary cut to be an MP 🤷🏽♂️
@T G don't forget they dont spend their salary everything is payed for on expenses by the taxpayer
They're only there because we voted for them.
Oh they do I hope they choke on them.
But if you pay more, you will also attract greedier people.
Yes, they should all have second jobs as hospital porters, or street cleaners or anything else more useful and honourable than their first jobs.
😂👍👏👏
Are you happy with the poor scared army of young fighting age men managing to get across the busiest shipping lane in the world in rubber boats ,unchecked to then disappear at the taxpayers expense?
You get a second job. Get a platform and become a politician and help the
People you want to help
@@spana123321 it's the politicians trafficking and profiteering from it. Human trafficking it's called. Like the slave trade......
@@spana123321 Something stinks in the state of Denmark.
If you ever thought you were prepared to die for what you believed Britain stood for, maybe time to think again? Because you may need to lay down your life to protect your family from what Britain has become.
Nobody in the West will now die for the dirty wars of corrupt politicians. That is why there’ll never be a draft to send people to fight Russia. This complete loss of faith in institutions is also why the establishment will try to turn the West into some kind of dictatorship - because soon there’ll be no consent to be governed, but only the fear of being shot.
I would not die for this country. It's not worth fighting for anymore. I would of course fight for family & friends.
The Britain I would fight for no longer exists ' in my own lifetime my country has changed to the point I do not relate to it at all' my nation of England is also unrecognisable.
@@mikewhite4925 💯%
I wear a nightshirt at bedtime, and not to wander boldly as if I own the UK
An excellent portrait of just how low many MPs have sunk in both public expectations of them and experiences. They regularly fail the public and expect forgiveness.
READ MY POST ABOVE, fool.
this man is honest and tells truth i thank him for his work
Honest yes but it's his truth!
These are not true parliamentarians but sponsored MPs for global companies.
@andrew........G.M.T's = Global Management Team.
Bought and paid for
And WEF representatives 😊
So sad that so many Tories are woke Thatcher must be turning in her Grave.
@@ingrid20234 All owned clowns.
Douglas Murray is as always brilliant.
HOW WOULD YOU KNOW, YOU NINNY.
They should all be sacked immediately.
Apart from Andrew Bridgen
nice to a well thought out, balanced perspective on things.
Sacked?!! I think you misspelt 'hung'
Or jailed be even better
No there are about 5 of them that actually give a damn
Thank you Douglas for telling it how it is. These corrupt unscrupulous scumbags must be exposed for what they are and punished and ridiculed before custodial sentences.
I write to my MP often but get back a standard letter clearly written by “head office”.There is no point thinking the main parties are there to help us, the very opposite is true.A massive wake up is here.
So, campaign against them, meet them, join local community groups and make case to dump them.
I've almost always had very diligent MPs who reply personally and bang heads together to devise solutions to stuff that arises in their constituency or raise questions on HoC. Just because you've got a lousy MP doesn't mean everyone has a louse as MP.
Yes vote Reform
@@cuebj I did try to stand as a county councillor and did OK but people prefer corrupt politicians.Thee is no political solution until morality is a widespread value.I write every month but what don’t you understand about getting a reply in the form of“ standard letter “ no answer at all ?
They are just all looking out for their very comfortable and expensively paid positions. Serving the public doesn’t get a second thought.
Very true .. live in Dublin Ireland exact same thing here ..
Douglas is brilliant and honest .Paul Ireland 🇮🇪
Yep! .. Jerry Dublin Ireland! ..
The problem is that what are the companies paying for obviously not the mps brilliance it's their ability to make laws and regulations
And the WEF is rewarding them handsomely
The so called acceptable word for it is lobbying, but it’s really just bribery.
Plus inside information on everything about British society!
Schwab himself boasted that WEF had now infiltrated most governments.
Douglas as usual, you are on point.
For so long!
The quality of MP's from all sides has never been so poor. An MP should be treated as quite a senior position, you have to work and build up an experience profile that matches the role, you should not be able to graduate and become an MP without real experience, not just a member of the university debating society.
As a Dutchman I sometimes wonder how the Brits with their rich traditions let their foremost state-institution be so readily captured by corporate career middlemen grifters, utterly devoid of intellect, courage and integrity.
and the few decent MPs we have - mostly Labour and SNP, certainly not a single Tory - the Labour party is doing their utmost to either expell or sideline
@@36AccountsBlockedRIP as an englishman I wonder too - it truly baffles me.
I talk to my boomer step-father and he believes in government investment in infrastructure, unions, social housing, welfare state, state pensions etc - but insists that everyone would be better off by voting conservative - and he's not a corner case, he's the mainstream.
If you poll Britons on policy, we are in the majority fairly left wing, if you ask us to vote in a general election we return a right wing government
@@5ynthesizerpatel SNP???? Are you not aware what is happening in Scotland right now? Take your red tinted specs off and look around, we are governed by a mono-party, only the head of the hydra changes.
@@5ynthesizerpatel To my outsider's eye there has been a steady decline in the credentials, convictions, intellect and integrity of your MPs since the 70s, but things really took a nose-dive these last two decades. I haven't looked if a similar trend has taken place in the House of Lords, where the same qualities matter.
Similarly a noted decline has taken place in the honorability and prestige of these vital positions, in the public view at least, which is easier to explain in my view.
Nowadays as you rightly state Labour seem to be actively recruiting incapable empty suits or capable but sinister types, whilst expelling or sidelining honest and capable people, perhaps because the whole system is now even more geared towards doing the bidding of special interests.
Labour, like the Democrats in the US, also seem to be obsessed with distractions such as identity politics and a lot of other waffling having long strayed from their core principles.
MP's, delusion is second to none, they are Public servants, yet believe the public are their slaves, and what say goes without question.
There was a time when the calibre of Douglas would opt to be an MP.
We need about another 200 Douglas Murrays then we might start to undo all the madness and have a more fair equitable society.
Beginning of democracy only men voted, now most voters are women. Explains why the bias employment, healthcare, custody and support laws. After stealing the kids, they then steal the support payments, steal the house and the jobs. Women dominating the ballot box is why there is this madness.
Our Westminster political system needs a complete overhaul , alas our MPs are reluctant to do so which would imply they're all on the take .
No our parlienment needs to be disbanded, dissolved. The system is rotten from top to bottom, no amount of tweeking will repair it, ever institution is this country is corrupt to the core. From that WEF traitor king Charles the turd, what an arrogant parasitic piece of scum.
Politicians a waste of space, judiciary corrupt to the core, the pigs in blue who protect this scum, never trust these bastard!! Then we have the poxy money grabbing corrupt thieving councils who take there cue from the WEF, civil servants telling their masters US the people what they can and can't do. This whole corrupt rotten system, living off of the people, a bunch of useless evil, parasitic filthy scum. That felt good😂
if you compare their earnings to their assets they dont match.
Westminster is captured by international finance capitalism.
All our M.P.s have for decades, belonged to the E.T.P.U
@@traceyculyer5811 they are owned by the chinese communist party.
I disagree with him here. Even if we paid them 10 times what they're currently on,with the caveat that they don't then need second jobs, they would still be looking around to get more fingers in more pies.
They would just become even more slippery and sneaky about it.
James doing very well to keep his face straight during this interview with the always excellent Douglas Murray
if these people were not so corrupt and disingenuous and discredited as pointless liars then folk would think better of them I'm sure, politicians cant expect any respect when their whole existence depends on telling lies.
Such a pleasure listening to Douglas Murray. He always tells it like it is, the truth. More please.
Enough is enough
Time for change.
Vote REFORM PARTY.
I do agree with their Proportional Representation policies (not sure the rest is for me)
You mean the tory party, right? Same thing
Leader is bit of a wet lettuce
I hope my mp loses his safe seat. I couldn’t pick out my mp in a line up.
Mine sadly is easily picked out WILL lose his seat at next election mostly because I believe he will not be standing again, his name is Sajid Javed. No doubt they will parachute in yet another "nowhere person" to become our MP, or some box ticking fluff or other.
My local mp is a total waste of time but gets voted in year on year.
That is the problem with our crappy anachronistic Worst Past The Post voting system. It creates too many 'Donkey Constituencies' whereby you can hang a blue or red rosette on a donkey and it gets voted into parliament. It is not healthy for our democracy.
The Australian style Preferred Candidate system or Proportional Representation would be better. It would allow newparties to break through, stop the Donkey Constituencies and more importantly it means that a voters vote actually matters.
@@clovermark39 Sounds like your mp's voters are a complete waste of time also , but how do you get rid of the voters that keep putting him/her into gov. ?
If the candidate has not lived in the constituency for at least 5 years they should not be able to stand parachuting your m8s in should be banned 🙄
The brilliant Douglas Murray once again. I loved the point about Labour MP`s although loving to criticize Tory MP`s for being caught in trying to do business deals, but then are happy to sign up to a slot on the UNLISTENABLE LBC!
Which former Labour MP is a host on that station?
Between this and the text leaks, Hancock is getting quite a kicking. Much like other career criminals, the small bit that has been exposed is likely only the tip of an iceberg in what we know is a very deep sea.
But he has made a lot of money doing it as a minister. A well remunerated life so far for which he is either too dim to realise he's a laughing stock or he doesn't care as long as the cash keeps rolling in
Well said Douglas.
These politicians have never had best intent for the citizens, only greed for themselves.
Those chasing the money are cheats, fakes, selfish, disgusting predators. They are neglecting their sworn duties and should be punished for that. It sickens me to the core.
But look at the senior / middle management of any public company. The rot is everywhere. What amazes me is that these people have children! What a wreckage they’re leaving behind.
After the cash for questions scandal MPs were saying thar they should be paid at least £100k because thats would be paid in the private sector so the Hansard Society did a survey of ex MPs and found that only 3% were earning as much or more than they did as an MP. The other 97% earned the average industrial wage. The free market spoke and found them only worthy to be paid as.a car mwchanic. Such is the pit we we now find ourselves.
Their hubris and arrogance anyone else would have the front when caught fiddling tell their employer it’s your fault you ain’t paying me enough ….
There is a difference there. A car mechanic is useful - does actual indispensable work.
Not wort a Penny, love to see them struggling on the incomes of poor people.
Car mechanic should get £60k plus, if any good and in a part of country that doesn't just drive old bangers - and that was a few years ago
We would get better results if we swopped mps for mechanics and other technical people that operate in the real world. Might find some of the unsolveable problems like the dinghy people getting fixed rather fast.
Douglas always great to listen to
I take comfort in the knowledge that karma is a real energy and they have no idea what is coming for them
£84,000 for a part-time job? Yes please! Oh, no, I want to sleep at night...
Decent MPs sleep at night as nothing to hide, as do the corrupt ones who don't give a jot.
The situation now in UK politics is fairly desperate as the MP's seem to have little interest in representing the views of their constituents OR in fact doing the job of an MP and servicing the constituency, but serving themselves. The country cannot afford the number of politicians and civil servants, Lords and Ladies who are in the majority not serving the public. The salaries of MP's have increased to over twice the average living wage of the public, yet most MP's seem to think being an MP is a part time job. If they take additional work it should be explained that under IR35 they should be paying Tax and NICS on ALL their income. However, I think the public would prefer that MP's should be prohibited from taking additional employment as we see often it is a conflict of interest and they cannot be trusted.
Love Douglas Murray, he reported on the trans movement years ago and just made my jaw drop. He is the smartest man we could listen to in the US and UK.
No change there then , they’ve always been desperately delusional .
Douglas Murray real must stop this, he simply doesn't seem to understand that Britain is now in the post truth era.
Britain's being run into the ground by women who can't tie a shoelace & 'blokes' in Spiderman PJ's.
He is more of a statesman than are current crop of sycophants in parliament.
Of course the competent citizen finds himself elsewhere; the last place an honest intellectual would seek is the house. When did we start assuming that representatives should not have self-interest? Pretending not to take a special kind of sleaze. Enter the consummate liars. Murray would be absolutely wasted as an MP. At least in this century.
Yes, although he did promote the new right. So you could say he's a fkn idiot too
He believes that Muslims should be prevented from entering Europe. He’s a racist.
Yes but that is easy as we do not have any in Politics these days.
Who ?
Not fit to wipe the boots of all those souls
Lost in two world wars!
Shame on them and their greed.
I love Douglas!
MPs should get the minimum wage and should not be allowed second jobs. They should have no privacy in regard to their financial affairs. Only then will we see which people really want to enter politics 'to make a difference to the lives of the people of this great country'.
This be the road to having *only* the exceedingly wealthy able to be MPs.
@@RaveShaman only the very few would participate. There are no easy fixes.
@@j.j.911 Is that such a bad thing? At least they'd be incorruptible.
@@robertcook2572 no true democrat would opt to disenfranchise the electorate like that. Having advised many politicians over the years, while they are all pretty shit, what we have is considerably better than what is being offered up here as alternatives.
@@j.j.911 It would incentivise the disgruntled to amass their own wealth and then they too could stand for election if they wished.
Being an MP IS a full time job. Competent government needs more thought and understanding than ever before.
As Obi Wan Kenobi said ..... "beware you will never find a hive of more scum and villainy".
Until you visit the US Congress!
Bob Monkhouse, “you’re a politician, tell me a lie.”
I hope it is a problem for all of the MP's that move from that work to another work providing that they had voted against the good will of the people because of their selfishness
The madness is the NHS even having diversity officers in the first place 🙄
Who should have Diversity Officers?
@@qcsorter4626 🤷 every company I have worked for has had a higher level of diversity than the local population and that includes the nhs. Where I live there isn’t even an option to see a white doctor because every single practice is populated by all other shades of diversity. Unless it’s purpose is to increase the percentage of white staff, then creating a diversity department in any of those organisations is like putting self-scan tills in supermarkets - doing someone who’s actually going to do the work out of a job.
DEI doesn't work properly far better is EMC
@@qcsorter4626 no-one better to have EMC
@@doriangray6985 if the EMC brings equality over equity, then yes.
He was very absent during the covid panic which was ironic given the book he had just written.
Restore the LAW, Reclaim your rights. End malfeasance and corruption, Apply the LAW to all. !!!
Grim Brirain indeed. A tiny country ... rotting into irrelevance.
Just watching this to see if these are the same reasons our MPs are often self-focused and lack integrity.
Grasping materialists fail to see the true problem with grasping materialism.
You forgot to add dysfunctional & these MP’s plead poverty yet they use ‘exploit’ their expenses Carte Blanche 🙄
I see Douglas, I click 'like'.
Not a full-time job?
First time I heard that.
Aren't there dozens of select committees, constituency work, policy development.
I don't see they should have time for second jobs never mind third and fourth if they're doing the first diligently.
Most MP’s might as well be a bot programmed to vote with the party line.
actually why not ban second jobs, but limit them to 2 terms.
If their second jobs were actual work rather than bribery to get their spin into parliament . The MPs might also begin to appreciate the people they represent .
I'm a simple woman. I see Douglas Murray, I upvote.
@@johnnyrocker7495 And what do YOU want?
@@johnnyrocker7495 No, I want Douglas Murray to come to my house, shake me warmly by the hand, and personally thank me for my acts of loyalty and service.
Come on pal, lighten up. It's a CZcams comment section - it doesn't have to be that serious 😉
@@staceya5149 Well said 😂
@@staceya5149 great response, wonder if rocker has something better in his arsenal here? 😅
Do't bother he's gay 😂😂😂😂😂
Wouldn't it be a miracle if we actually had a parliament full of patriotic well meaning representatives?
Unique in my experience!
These guys are all carrying Klaus Schwabs bags atm.
Mr Murray - always interesting and wise
Anyone else remember Geoff Hune, minister of defence under Blair, falling for the same sting to be a paid consultant for access to government. Labour doesn't, l'll bet!
Well The Spectator would know, being Boris Johnson's former employer.
I find it impossible to believe that an MP can find time for a second job . Running the country cannot be that easy . An empty chamber during most days tells you that they don't take it seriously ,or just don't care .
I have watched Douglas for many years ,He has had some bad hits from people who really do not like what he says…Well Douglas you are just what is needed in this cray world ….So keep up the good work,don’t let them get you down.. (as my mother used to say …).
If being an MP doesn't involve working full time, you're not working hard enough.
Just like Australian MPs.
A very eloquent message of truth from a reliable and trustworthy man.
Halve the number of MPs, double their pay, with the requirement that it is their only job and that they actually do it. Their performance should be constantly assessed and those failing should be voted out as and when necessary.
Performance related pay....then their aids would get paid better money, they do the donkey work!
Perennial because nothing is done about it..... Meanwhile I watched a speech to the EMPTY house concerning the abominable side effects of this new medical intervention which was proclaimed necessary by the government. Were these people all at their ' other job ' , were they in their constituencies advising their constituents , or were they basking on some Mediterranean beach in a holiday funded by Big Pharma. The process needs to be absolutely transparent. Most of all , they can't police themselves and actions need to have consequences. They're all there when the debate is how much to raise their parly salaries then.......... 🤡 World 100%
Imagine a country being run by diane Abbott Angela Rainer and David lammy in the cabinet??😂😂
Well, we just had Johnson and his cronies so we can easily imagine how their equivalents in Labour would function. There are chancers on both sides and diligent honest people on both sides
@@cuebj From what I have seen Labour has far more fruit cakes and far fewer decent people than the tosspot tories.
@@cuebj Boris is slippery but Abbot has the IQ of a field mouse, at best…
Angela Rainer is a Project Manager with London Transport. Why is she relevant to your point?
Imagine a country run by Hancock, Johnson and Truss?? Oh no, we don’t have to imagine. We have the data.
The cesspit most definitely needs draining.
The Spectator should take heed and pay attention to what *"Led by Donkeys"* managed to pull off here.
Much like Project Veritas, they held TRUTH TO POWER, POWER TO ACCOUNT.
Real investigative journalism.
Not OPINION PIECE AFTER OPINION PIECE where we learn nothing except YOUR OPINION.
£10 grand per day for Matt Hancock. Just let that sit for a minute and reflect on the ansolute state of British politics.
Most politicians all sides play at politics as a second job / hobbie and have making money as their main focus this is the whole problem .
The former Labour Party MP for the Greenwich & Woolwich Constituency, Mr Nick Raynsford, used to earn vastly more from consultancy work than he did as an MP. It is no surprise that he nearly always opposed what constituents wanted, especially when it came to building developments.
The entire political class and system needs to be overthrown
WHY NOT ask for 10 THOUSAND POUNDS a a DAY! Tony Blair GETS FAR MORE THAN THIS! AND HE'S ON THE RUN from JUSTICE 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂.
More relevant is the book by Mr Wolf of the FT concerning the pitiful condition and frighteningly unstable fate faced by the collapsing UK. MPs just generally pee around and have no effect upon anything significant.
The West/ the Global American Empire is in real structural economic decline. Decades of open borders Globalisation has hollowed us out in the interests of international finance capitalism.
The FT has been part of the problem. Pro open borders Globalisation that has ultimately hollowed out the West.
Having a second job is as old as the hills, however taking a job as an advisor to say, a pharmaceutical company in a “ plandemic “ whilst a serving MP is a conflict of interests.. but that would never happen …. Would it ?
Douglas Murray is always worth listening to, especially when he's putting the boot in.
As long as you don't follow his tripe on the Ukraine's crisis as he was shown around Kherson falling for his handlers (SBU) handler propaganda reiterating Putin just woke up one morning & decided to invade Ukraine with it's thriving democracy & frendly LGBT Azov fighters.
He's waffling and stating the obvious. I guess he is just as deluded as the rest of them.
@@magnacarta9364 NATO creeping forever eastwards right up to nuclear armed and not known for their tolerance Russia
@@magnacarta9364 You Putin fanboys are hilarious. Keep crying. We already got Finland in NATO. I'm excited to see Russia collapse as it did in 1917 and 1991!
@@mrnice7570 Tolerate Russia? Why would anyone tolerate those mass murdering scumbags? They're responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of East Europeans(not to mention Western/Northern Europeans/Central Asians as well) just within the last century. This is why they're hated in Poland, Ukraine, Germany, Estonia, Finland, etc. They don't even respect their own population and brutalize them. They get no "tolerance" from me.
The biggest lie about LGBTQI+2S is that it includes the LG community.
England has NO PM atm . Neither has Scotland or Southern Ireland
With the exception of one or two mp's the rest are morally deplete of any standards of decency and are not worthy of a seat on a park bench.
A bunch of independently wealthy men of 150 years ago is starting to seem not so bad! The theory was that men of means, breeding, honour were 'disinterested' to lures of money or fame. Honour was a thing.
Like most of the Tories at present?
Many of the wealthy seems to have no end to their selfishness, desiring tax breaks for the wealthy and cuts to services to the poor. Homelessness and the decay of public health and education services are symptoms. They mouth virtue but act evilly.
Common purpose has a lot to answer for. Sack them all
I am surprised Mat Hancock Didn't pause and say "..........What is sterling?" I want our policy makers to have the ability to earn six figures before they take office.
There not just that there also all criminals
This may sound very serious, but with Douglas - the laughs just kept coming, he's brilliant.
Money is a very emotive subject. Some will even risk their jobs and reputation for it.
As if we needed any more proof of the avarice , greed , corruption and megalomania of these rats .it’s all parties .
I whole heartedly agree with Douglas' point that there should be less MPs who are paid significantly more. As Douglas says, the role of MP has seen a significant drop in status. This needs to be addressed.
At some point the reality TV circuit beckons everyone in public life. Like some grim reaper of careers.
Stop corruption in UK politics. Stop second jobs. Stop Russian donations to the Conservative party.
what makes anyone think a Barraster is a worthwhile job.?
Even when you don't agree with him, and I usually do, Douglas Murray is still worth listening to.
Douglas has got it backwards here. Offering MPs an even larger basic salary will attract even more demons of greed and corruption. The solution is to base hiring on a whole new rigid set of criteria that isn't simply: go to Eton college, and then start on 80k per year. It's an utter disgrace.
MPs should have a basic minimum wage rate that is added to the median average UK salary. This would amount to around 45k per year, and it adds the incentive of increasing the salaries of the working class.
Is anyone surprised? Australian politicians derive more than half their total income from real real estate speculation.
Same in Australia
Spot on Douglas. ❤
It isn't just a question of making money but influence. He who pays the piper and all that. When MP's leave politics they take their connections with them. The permanent layers of power above parliament make all the serious decisions, so this debate is rather redundant.
They don't even read their own legislation!