Chameleon Magazine

If your job had this many felons, fraudsters, and frequent flyers to court, HR would shut the building down. But slap a title like “MP” on the door and suddenly every red flag becomes a “personal matter.” Welcome to the House of Commons: your tax-funded hall of moral exemptions.

⚖️ The Only Workplace Where “Ongoing Legal Proceedings” Are a Feature, Not a Bug

Imagine a job where drink-driving, dodgy finances, and criminal charges don’t get you fired—but promoted to committee chair. That’s not a dystopian satire. That’s literally the UK Parliament.

We’re talking convicted criminals, people who wouldn’t pass a Tesco job screening, crafting the very laws that govern how you live, drive, bank, and behave. 📜🔧

It’s like finding out the hygiene inspector at your local chip shop moonlights as a rat trainer.

Teachers lose jobs over tweets. Nurses get suspended pending investigations. Meanwhile, MPs accused of assault simply “agree to work from home” and still get their paycheque. Because, of course, nothing says public accountability like legislating from a lawyer’s waiting room.

Let’s be crystal: this isn’t “a few bad apples.” It’s a rotting orchard with a catering budget. 🍎💸

In any other industry, this kind of institutional rot would bring in regulators, media blitzes, maybe a Netflix docuseries. But in Westminster? Just another Wednesday.

🪟 The Transparent Lie of “High Standards”

Here’s how it goes:

• A scandal breaks.
• A statement is issued.
• An “independent” body (that reports to MPs) launches an inquiry.
• The public forgets.
• The MP retires gracefully on a gold-plated pension.

Rinse, deflect, repeat. 🌀

No surprise that public trust is tanking faster than a lettuce in Downing Street.

MPs love to say “we must restore faith in politics.” But maybe the first step isn’t faith.

Maybe it’s firing the people who treat responsibility like a seasonal costume. 🎭

Because yes, MPs are “only human.” But so are pilots. And if your pilot gets nicked for drink-driving, no one says “let’s give them another go at 30,000 feet.”

🔥 Challenges 🔥

How many scandals does it take before we call this what it is—a broken system in denial?

Would your boss keep their job after a court date and a cash scandal? Doubt it.

Tell us what you’d do if this were your workplace. Spoiler: It is. 🧑‍💼📉