Some interesting stats about our beloved leaders!

[Rooster]

I was recently sent one of those emails that everyone passes on round and it makes interesting reading!

I've no idea if its accurate or where the statistics come from but frankly I find them believable ......

To all my friends, who like me have nothing but good to say about our
members of parliament, I thought you would enjoy this set of stats which of
course is produced without any prejudice!


This may seem unbelievable,but can you imagine working for an organisation that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following employee statistics:
 

29 have been accused of spouse abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
9 have been accused of writing bad cheques
17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least two businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year


Collectively, this year alone, they have cost the British taxpayer 
£92,993,748 in expenses !!!

Which organization is this ?

It's the 635 members of the House of Commons, the same group that cranks out
hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of  us in line.

What a bunch of bastards we have running our country - it says it all. And
just to top all that they probably have the best 'corporate' pension scheme
in the country !! If you agree that this is an appalling state of affairs,
please

You may wish to Pass it on to everyone you know !

[desperate]

Has this forum turned into the gutter press??

Desperate

[Tombo]

This is utter rubbish.  It reads like it was written by an American. I cant really be bothered to check if it originated there but a quick google reveals its been doing the rounds since 2006.

Here is one from SA in 2007

29 have been accused of spouse abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
9 have been accused of writing bad cheques
17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least two businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year
373 in total or approximately 70%

Can you guess which organization this is?

Give up yet?

its the 535 members of the SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT -


(The same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year
designed to keep the rest of us in line!)

Please try to keep rubbish like this off the forum in the coming months as the reality is bad enough!

[SteveH]

 Total cr@p....!

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/mar/20/mpsincorruptionshocker

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A593129

 Rooster please check before posting this sort of stuff....

 Steve....

[renewablejohn]

I think its rather ironic.

MP's tarred with a brush back in 2006  and it is totally discounted  then in 2008 the Telegraph exposes the expenses scandal and their seen as heroes for exposing these hypocrites.

You should know that very few MP's do the job for the love of their country its the same all over the world.

If MP's were restricted to a salary of twice the national average it would soon sort out those dedicated to their country and those in it for the money. It would also be an incentive to increase the national average salary instead of pandering to the high flying bankers.

[martin]

on the other hand, an argument could be made to pay them ludicrously well (showing that essentially we're stuffed, whichever way we go!) - if they were rolling in money, "brown envelopes" or "incentivisation" which I believe to be absolutely central to most government (particularly this one!) would lose some of it's attraction.........
The ONLY reason some lunacies like nuclear power and GM are even contemplated is the enormous power, wealth and influence of the (largely US neocon) lobbying companies............

[shiela_robins]

Yeah, forwarded mail can hardly be believable.  That's why they go to the trash for me.  But then again, what government has its people running it who are uncorrupted or incorruptible at all? I think each has it's own bad side and they can/may get away easily with it since they are in "power." 

[knighty]

it's a catch 22 situation

pay them less (twice the national average as above etc..) and weed out the people who are only in it for the money....

or pay them a fortune in a bid to get the best people possible

the problem is, most of the really good ones could probably earn more in the private sector anyway

people say dump the expenses and just pay them instead so they can pay there expenses out of there own pockets.... but how do you know that won;t stop them doing the work they should be ?  what if they're too tight to spend the money necessary for them to do there job ?


I try not to think about polotics.... it just makes me angry/depressed in equal measure

[desperate]

I would bet a fairly big pint that if you take at random any 635 members of the public the stats would be pretty similar.

This kind of 4 letter words are my favorite is the worst tittle tattle, all it does is create cynicism, all very destructive

Desperate

[renewablejohn]

If its good enough to randomly select people for jury service surely you could do the same for MP's.  I am sure you would get a far better commons selection if you did not have to bother with party politics.