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Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Ken Wood on 9/8/2025, 2:29 pm

This MP for Homelessness resigned but still keeps her MP salary as a backbencher. That salary will be £93.904 as from April 2025. The MP will claim expenses. They can also claim various expenses to cover the costs of running an office, employing staff, and maintaining residences in both their constituency and London. This is what is a total failure with our democracy, you can even have a criminal record these days and still sit on the FRONT BENCH. Beggars believe this shower, just think the next time you tick that box, thinking well this is the way my mam and dad voted, but that was then, another rant from Ken enjoy or not.

Re: Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Norman on 9/8/2025, 5:18 pm, in reply to "Minister for Homelessness "

That type of money plus a lottttttttttt more in expenses is what attracts them to become MPs. They dont do it to help their constituents. Ask our MP a question about our area & she wont have a clue.

Once these people becomes MP's, God blesses them and makes them cleverer than us common people & that is why they ignore what we say.
of course I'm joking

but they really do think they are ABOVE US ordinary people.
They dont realise they only get to be MPs cos most of us clever people prefer to work for a living.

Re: Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Sheila on 9/8/2025, 5:35 pm, in reply to "Re: Minister for Homelessness "

Yes and when they are booted out at the next election, they leave with a nice fat cheque, compliments of us through another good idea Tony Blair had.

Re: Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Brian on 9/8/2025, 7:42 pm, in reply to "Re: Minister for Homelessness "

Ken, they can be suspended, have the
Whip taken away and much more without any financial penalties, it has always been the case. I wish one the parties would get a backbone and introduce this as a private Bill. Mind it's like asking turkeys voting for Christmas getting them to do it.

Re: Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Mac Hardy on 10/8/2025, 10:26 am, in reply to "Re: Minister for Homelessness "

Agree with every word said, MP’s used to be respected, now only in it for the money and the many perks and freebies they can get, bring on REFORM.

Re: Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Brian on 10/8/2025, 3:04 pm, in reply to "Re: Minister for Homelessness "

We will be screwed if Reform got in.

Re: Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Liz Sance on 10/8/2025, 4:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Minister for Homelessness "

Brian , Reform UK couldn’t do any worse, at least Zia Yusoff, who would be Chancellor, knows what he is talking about in the world of finance not like the present incumbent who knows nothing and keeps digging the hole even bigger.

I think that more Tories will jump ship as time goes on, at least they have some knowledge of business, not like the last intake of Labour MPs who don’t seem to grasp that you can’t keep spending money on things like never ending increments to Unions, Public Sector Workers and the like, they seem to forget, or perhaps don’t know, that Unions, Public Sector Workers are money takers not money makers, time will tell, but 4 more years of this current Government is a nightmare scenario for me, I could be wrong!!!

Re: Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Brian on 10/8/2025, 6:59 pm, in reply to "Re: Minister for Homelessness "

I do hope tory MPs don't jump ship, there will be someone competent, exactly as there'll be someone competent in the Labour party, they just have to come forward. Farage is totally untrustworthy, the master of the the blame game, what he proposed so far was more extreme than Liz Truss.
People are desperate on both right and left of politics and people sometimes do silly things and either move more to right or left dependant on their political affiliation. This is where
extremists come from, life was better when both Labour and Tory had a middle ground, we need that train of thought back.

Re: Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Liz Dance on 10/8/2025, 7:52 pm, in reply to "Re: Minister for Homelessness "

Brian, the Tories had 14 years to fix things, at the Election they got a real bloody nose, people were fed up, Labour didn’t exactly excel at the last Election some of the votes were protest votes against the Tories.

You probably don’t agree but Labour have been a disaster so far, they just don’t have competent MPs, Starmer is absolutely useless he sits on the fence then swings the way the shouting is loudest, he has no control over his back benchers, most of his Cabinet are useless, most are hypocrites who are doing exactly the same thing that they huffed and puffed about when the Tories were doing similar things.

The current Government have completely lost control of our Borders, the number of migrants who have reached our shores, thanks to the taxi service provided by the RNLI and Border Force, have increased enormously since Labour came to power. The ‘Deal’ Starmer has negotiated with France is not worth the paper it is written, we will have no say over who France wants to send to us, there are so many loop holes in the Deal migrants and leftie lawyers will block repatriations to France at every step.

The economy is worse now than when Liz Truss was PM Ms Reeves has seen to that, god knows how she will dig herself out of the enormous hole she is in, I do know that we, the Tax Payer, will all suffer, benefits to migrants etc will continue to increase without any thought as to how they will be funded, I could go on but what is the point we are lumbered for the next 4 years with this nightmare scenario.

Rant over for now.

Re: Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Brian on 11/8/2025, 10:39 am, in reply to "Re: Minister for Homelessness "

The Tories had been running on empty for a few
years before they went, unfortunately Starmer is not what I would have hoped for. Most PMs manage to upset a portion of the populace, he has managed to upset most of the population, that takes some doing. There's no dynamic there, no emotion, its as if he's just going through the motions. Badenoch is clueless and because of thst he's had a relatively easy ride at PMs questions. The cabinet is a group of yes men which let's be honest isn't unusual whatever the party.

When you look at parliament I would say the quality of our MPs has never been worse. I would say we would struggle to put together an effective cabinet with every MP in the house available. The economy is in the pan , it doesn't help when we have a group of toothless regulators that seem to back the money grabbing utility companies again and again. We have the most expensive utilities in Europe and neither this government or previous have/had done a thing to alleviate this. The MPs aren't affected by this as their bills come out of the public purse, until they feel it in the pocket in won't be a priority. I will be surprised if Starmer lasts his term, he'll be gone I believe by the end of the 3rd year unless he starts delivering for the country and I cannot see that coming.

Re: Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Liz Dance on 11/8/2025, 11:40 am, in reply to "Re: Minister for Homelessness "

Brian, I have to agree with you on most points, however, I don’t think that Kemi will be around much longer, I can see a Leadership challenge, she seems to disappear’ from time to time, also I think you are being very generous on the length of tenure for Starmer I can’t help feeling his days are numbered, who would replace him is another worry the outcome could be catastrophic!!!

On a better note the sun is shining in Herefordshire, we have collected and used our first apples, my husband is promising a Swedish Apple Cake for the weekend, for today politics will be put in the back burner all far to depressing.

Re: Minister for Homelessness

Posted by Brian on 11/8/2025, 12:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Minister for Homelessness "

We were slow cooking cherry tomatoes in the oven last night , cut in half smeared with fresh chopped garlic , olive oil and our own basil. Oven on lowest setting, cooked for 75 minutes, have kept some for having with cheese, cold meat etc, the rest into jars topped with oil and spread onto fresh made crusty bread for breakfast. It was so good. We had some windfall pears last week letting them ripen so hopefully there'll be ripe before the weekend.

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