UK government officials live it up at taxpayers' expense
- added July 6, 2008
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- FreyaS
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With the cost of living in the UK rising dramatically over the last 12 months, petrol and diesel at an all time high, the economy in a melt down as the credit crunch ripples through the business community ... you would think that under the leadership of "prudent" Gordon Brown the Labour government would at least make a show of reining in their own spending on Whitehall official's wages and bonuses.
After all those same officials have dug their heels in when it came to discussing inflation linked pay rises for nurses, the police force and members of the fire service. So it will come as a pretty hurtful shock to find that whilst on the one hand the faceless bureaucrats have been urging "caution" to the unions and the public in general, whilst they themselves have shown no such restraint when it comes to their own pockets which they appear to have been filling to the hilt.
With the average senior civil servant pocketing a whopping £7K on top of their already substantial pay packet, for their "success" in running the country's departments ... it will no doubt leave the average Joe in the street wondering just what, exactly, those successes are? Were they when the Government lost computer discs with millions of peoples details on there leaving them open to fraudsters? Perhaps it's the fact that they leave file after file of *confidential* information about terrorists for any old man in the street to pick up off the trains?
Maybe it could be that they are simply congratulating themselves on a job well done - with redundancies at an all time high and the economy in terminal freefall towards a full blown recession? Who knows ... but following hot on the greedy heels of the MPs in Westminster voting for an inflation busting pay rise and the refusal to vote off the "John Lewis" list which forces taxpayers to pay to furnish their second homes with luxury goods from the upmarket department store ... is it any wonder that members of the public in the UK see MPs and Whitehall officials as "living the highlife" at their somewhat costly expense?
After all those same officials have dug their heels in when it came to discussing inflation linked pay rises for nurses, the police force and members of the fire service. So it will come as a pretty hurtful shock to find that whilst on the one hand the faceless bureaucrats have been urging "caution" to the unions and the public in general, whilst they themselves have shown no such restraint when it comes to their own pockets which they appear to have been filling to the hilt.
With the average senior civil servant pocketing a whopping £7K on top of their already substantial pay packet, for their "success" in running the country's departments ... it will no doubt leave the average Joe in the street wondering just what, exactly, those successes are? Were they when the Government lost computer discs with millions of peoples details on there leaving them open to fraudsters? Perhaps it's the fact that they leave file after file of *confidential* information about terrorists for any old man in the street to pick up off the trains?
Maybe it could be that they are simply congratulating themselves on a job well done - with redundancies at an all time high and the economy in terminal freefall towards a full blown recession? Who knows ... but following hot on the greedy heels of the MPs in Westminster voting for an inflation busting pay rise and the refusal to vote off the "John Lewis" list which forces taxpayers to pay to furnish their second homes with luxury goods from the upmarket department store ... is it any wonder that members of the public in the UK see MPs and Whitehall officials as "living the highlife" at their somewhat costly expense?
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look the more they allow the powers that be to control the masses and rasie tax and c charge in london etc... the more they get paid thats the reward for co operation with an unfair and systematic system all presidents in usa who play ball get shares in big companys and stocks when they retire get invited to all the best partys and even get awards and shit you may even find bin laden at these partys disguised as a blond white freemason
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The freedom of information act is finally being put to decent use. If ordinary people are concerned that our politicians are taking the tax payer for a ride, then there will be journalists chasing down the documents to prove it.
There seems to have been a slight shift in interest in this sort of thing recently, and it can only be seen as a good thing. If there is foul play going on, I have every confidence that if we keep chipping away, we'll find it.
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- phillyharper
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As the purse strings get tightened at home I would only expect further abuses of expense accounts.
Alot of the people who represent us only seem to be in it for the trappings
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