Bankers. Spit. Not popular people, and justifiably so. There's much talk of Vickers legislation to get the taxpayer off the hook on future bailouts, a bit late, and much can - and likely will - get landed on the taxpayers back before it comes into force (if it ever does), but there's talk. Public opinion has to be soothed.
But, what about a Vickers for politicians, and why wait until 2019? The damage has already been done, the public are already on the hook and will be again.
How about something that will disbar crooked politicians and those who betray our nation from within the corridors of power from retiring to a cushy life thereafter?
Think about it.
Commit expenses fraud, sell political questions and push legislation for money, ruin our nation with idiocy and warmongering = no more cushy directorships or envoy jobs, something that will really make the political elite who have ruined us and fleeced us think twice in future.
How about disbarring them from having more than £15,000 income in a year?
Bar them from foreign travel so they can't just flee abroad to some luxurious paradise and escape the Britain they ruined.
What about making that last for life if they betray the offices which they hold and the nation which they represent?
Since many have huge property or commercial interests, not to mention property abroad, how about making it clear that if you rip off the public and wreck the country then you will pay the price - cap too the assets and property which they can hold?
Make sure that they cannot just transfer it off into other names and front companies, make that a criminal offence.
The freezing of assets has much precedence now, it wouldn't be the first time we've done it to people because of political motivations.
Politicians at the top aren't really responsible - they claim that they are responsible to the electorate, they could be voted out. But, that means nothing when there's a cushy job lined up the moment it happens, a seat in the lords, a directorship on some company or other.
They're really no different than the bankers, no matter how badly they do, no matter how much we get screwed by them, they walk away with bonus after bonus and don't have to face up to any consequences whatsoever.
Bankers may have created the banking crisis, but where were palms greased, who relaxed rule after rule to make it possible?
Isn't it about time we had a Vickers for politicians too, about time that they were accountable, that their futures were tied in with ours.
That sounds fair since they are ones making the decisions which will effect our futures, and our childrens futures, for years to come.
No more slaps on the wrist and 9 weeks in prison for defrauding the expenses system, no more - ironically named - Peace Envoy positions for warmongering and ruining a nation with mass immigration, no more swindling mortgages and using political influence for self enrichment, rather consequences to political actions.
Grab up a jury of the British people, and allow them to decide where and to whom should the political Vickers apply.
Maybe that would make politicians give a damn about Britain and the people whom they are supposed to represent, because they sure don't now.
Bankers. Spit. Not popular people, and justifiably so. There's much talk of Vickers legislation to get the taxpayer off the hook on future bailouts, a bit late, and much can - and likely will - get landed on the taxpayers back before it comes into force (if it ever does), but there's talk. Public opinion has to be soothed.
