🧱💷Let’s strip the tinsel off this story and put it back where it belongs: on the backs of the working class. Every perk, every expense, every “perfectly legitimate” claim made in Westminster is funded by people who get up early, work long hours, and don’t have the luxury of billing the public for their own admin. MPs may have been lucky enough to be voted into power, but the money they spend isn’t theirs—and acting like it is amounts to a kick in the teeth.
🛠️ The People Who Actually Fund the State
This needs repeating—over and over again—because selective amnesia seems to come free with a parliamentary pass. The money does not come from:
- Judges
- The House of Lords
- The King or Queen
- Civil servants
- Politicians themselves
It comes from the private sector working class:
bricklayers, joiners, engineers, oil workers, shop workers, taxi drivers, delivery drivers, factory hands—the people who generate the tax base that keeps the lights on.
They pay their own accountants.
They don’t expense personal tax returns.
They don’t get to shrug and say “within the rules” when they dip into someone else’s wallet.
When MPs treat taxpayer-funded perks as entitlements, it’s not a victimless technicality—it’s a message: your graft is taken for granted. And that resentment isn’t manufactured; it’s earned. 🧾😤
🏛️ Power Is a Privilege, Not a Buffet
Being elected is an opportunity, not a reward scheme. Gratitude should come as standard, not after public pressure. When politicians abuse that opportunity—quietly, repeatedly, confidently—it tells working people exactly where they sit in the pecking order.
If it’s “reasonable” for MPs to claim the public purse to have someone do their tax returns, then by any honest logic it should be reasonable for the private sector to do the same. But everyone knows that’s nonsense. Two systems. Two standards. One bill—paid by the same people every time.
This isn’t anti-politics. It’s pro-accountability. Respect isn’t demanded; it’s maintained. And it starts by remembering who pays for the privilege of public office.
🔥 Challenges 🔥
Here’s the challenge Westminster keeps dodging:
Why is gratitude so hard when the money is so easy?
And how many more “small” abuses add up to a permanent insult to the people who fund the country?
If you work in the private sector, this is your conversation. Say it properly in the blog comments—not a passing rant, but a line in the sand. 💬✊
👇 Like it. Share it. Remind them where the money comes from.
The strongest, clearest comments will be featured in the next issue of the magazine. 📰🔥
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