Berni Ecclestone has reputedly short changed the tax man in this country of over 2 billion pounds and has been charged with bribery. His labyrinth tax avoidance schemes, trust funds make the likelihood of him having to pay extremely unlikely.
Patrick Mercer was caught on camera offering for a fee £500 to introduce a question in Parliament and has simply resigned from Parliament with no further questions asked .
Maria Miller obtained by false means, through her Parliamentary expenses over £40 000 which was deemed not illegal because of the wide remit we provide our MPs, she was ordered to repay £4000 when her parliamentary colleagues decided that she only had to return 10% and could keep the rest.
The Benefit segment of society is handed prison sentences and fined for fiddling £2000.
The person who has a spare bedroom and can't downsize because there is no accommodation for them is charged for the room, roughly £14pw on a benefit income of roughly £65 a week.
The Barristers are refusing to take on cases of Legal Aid because their fees are not met and so a Judge ruled this week that the defendants, in a financial dispute would not get proper legal representation and so he dismissed the case. The Government insist that the Legal Aid Fee structure remunerates the barrister the equivalent of £100 000 pa with his junior on £60 000 pa.
Ordinary workers have generally not had an increase for over 3 years and the average pay £26 000 pa hides the many who are on £6.68ph with a 'no fixed hours contract' whereby they are signed up to an employer but have no guarantee that they will be given any work (nicely resembling our feudalist past).
And then of course there are those encouraged to work for nothing to gain work experience.
As the Prime Minister said, "we are all in this together" !!!
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