This is the aspect I don’t understand. I just don’t get why people are not furious about their tax money being siphoned/misappropriated/stolen. I guess for a lot of people on PAYE tax is an abstract concept, even more so those on benefits, pensions etc. For many of us it isn’t. I submitted my tax return a couple of weeks ago and I’m now in the process of paying a years worth. I’m livid about this whole Tory kleptocracy thing as I’m basically honest. I’m too dumb to be crooked. As an example I chose to pay back the 2nd SEISS grant as my business had recovered by the end of that period (I obviously didn’t take the 3rd or 4th).
I have always viewed taxation almost as a badge of honour. Taxation = civilisation etc. A sign you are doing ok. It is how you give back for a better society, how you support those in need, build transportation infrastructure, art galleries, museums etc. As such I submit a straight tax return. The knowledge that crooked thieving shit like Hancock, Jenrick, Johnson, Gove and the rest of their elitist and entirely parasitic party are till-dipping at my expense honestly makes me want to take a baseball bat to the nearest Conservative Club. They are just totally taking the piss and laughing in our faces as they do so. Literally £bns of money that we give in good faith misappropriated, stolen, even paid out for a shag.
The only thing I can legitimately do is to fund The Good Law Project, so that is my response. I strongly suggest everyone else who has had their tax thieved by this bunch of lying crooks does the same.
What does a minister need to do before he is summarily removed? Detonate a nuclear device in the centre of London?
I doubt that would work either, but **may** draw a little more attention to him.
Found guilty in court, found guilty by a spy, whats next?
On a different note - security will be stepped up in misisterial offices I would imagine - that's another job for the old boy network then.