Leo Mckinstry writes in the London’s Daily Express:
When Winston Churchill was Prime Minister, he presided over a War our of survival the they ensured men. Together, nine just Cabinet of nation and the defeat of Nazi tyranny. Today, no fewer than 35 Labour politicians sit around the Cabinet table in Gordon Brown’s Government. Few of them could be trusted to run an ice-cream stall…
It is a deep irony, however, that the pay of our politicians is in inverse proportion to their substance. In the late Victorian age, MPs were not paid at all, yet they governed a quarter of the world’s land mass through the greatest Empire that history has ever known…
The total bill for all this subsidised political careerism now reaches over £500million…
New research by the BBC shows that there are 30,000 paid politicians here, compared to just 3000 in 1980.
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