Being an MP and maybe a Minister is a privilege. Any law or tax you disagree with can be removed if you persuade enough colleagues to vote with you to get rid of it.
Being an MP also brings with it plenty of accountability for your own actions. As an MP who wanted fewer taxes and rules I was very conscious I needed to ensure I obeyed all the ones I disagreed when I could not get them changed.
I set up a system of personal diary alerts to ensure I did not miss Council tax bills, tax returns, vehicle licensing, Congestion charge compliance and all the rest.
When parking I poured over the parking rules to ensure I had paid the right amount. I worried all the time about complying with so many rules and tax requirements. I did not think I would get much sympathy if I had made a mistake, with some bound to assume I had deliberately failed to pay or comply. I avoided any error.
Labour MPs should find compliance easier, as they are the ones who campaign for more rules and higher taxes. There should be joy in their heart that they have to pay more tax on making a profit on their home, or have to buy an expensive licence to rent it out. They should be model landlords always putting their tenants first if they have investment houses.
It is strange three Ministers have tripped up over these housing related issues where their government is so keen to boost tenants, regulate landlords more and tax people more who make money on their homes. We know the Chancellor was well aware of the landlord licensing schemes in general as she was promoting them. We know the former Deputy PM was keen on taxing better off people with property more as she argued that case. We know the former Homelessness Minister knew about landlord regulation to stop bad landlords as she managed that as a Minister.
November 9, 2025
Good morning.
Many Socialists may not believe in the, Ten Commandments, but they sure do believe in the eleventh – “Thou shall not get caught !
I do not ask those who would govern us to leave virtuous lives. But when caught I do expect the law of the land to apply equally to them. Even if that meant jail time. Many an MP have done a bad thing, such as fiddling their expenses, ie fraud. Very few, pitifully few, have never been charged of this criminal offence.
November 9, 2025
Socialists also like the “do as I say not as do” hypocrisy one especially on their personal air miles and energy usage in the King Charles, Ed Miliband, Starmer, Lammy, Sadiq Kahn modes. Also on private schools, private medicine, tax avoidance, tax free pay off for “resigning”, landlord licensing laws…
November 9, 2025
It’s alright when we do it is the socialist mentality. I don’t believe that most of the lawmakers think they don’t apply to them.
We’re still waiting for an independent enquiry into grooming gangs but as they involve mainly those of the privileged cohort the government isn’t interested. Community cohesion is the mantra. Justice takes a poor second place.
We really do have two tier justice.
November 9, 2025
Getting caught…. we are now in the dystopian situation where people ARE getting caught, but because of their race, creed, political views, job or social situation; may not face the consequences due for the crimes.
So, the EU wants us to pay again into their common budget, they no doubt see a soft target in 2TK who will give more free money away. If I want to watch any live TV broadcast OTHER than the BBC, I nevertheless have to pay the BBC for the privilege, that allows this incompetent, mandate failing institution to continue to produce dishonest output.
We elect and pay our MP’s to make decent laws and be our guardians of freedom, this group are also failing to perform. We are becoming a failed democracy. One last chance to vote for freedom.
November 9, 2025
It’s not alright for them not to have virtuous lives when they keep lecturing us about our behaviour. They profess the moral high ground but show themselves lacking. That’s hypocrisy.
November 9, 2025
I agree. Lawmakers, like Caesar’s wife, must be above suspicion. When they find they have broken a law they should refer themselves, not wait for someone else to catch them. They should also RESIGN!
November 9, 2025
Agreed.
November 9, 2025
I see that the BBC will be making an apology to President Trump for the disgraceful doctoring of video film.
Will the dishonest individual perpetrators be sacked or will the BBC, behind closed doors reinforced by impenetrable Boilerplate,
quietly congratulate them and bid them carry on.
Do BBC recruitment interviews seek to know if applicants are of a satisfactory standard of integrity?
November 10, 2025
Do BBC recruitment interviews seek to know if applicants are of a satisfactory standard of integrity?
I suspect they just check that the candidate have arts or humanities degree, the right skin reflectivity, the right disabilities pref. visible or audible ones, accept the climate alarmist religion, love the EU, are not keen on Israel, hate Trump and Farage and believe in magic money tree duff lefty economics!
November 9, 2025
Bye and large, the World did not progress by the rule makers or rule takers. Think Galileo, Vasco de Gama, Alan Touring, Frank Whittle, Tim Berners Lee et al. In fact the tendency of many of the rule makers was to crush the free thinkers lest they upset the status quo and their income stream, witness Tesla.
While I accept a few basic rules for person to person harmony, and the Judea Christen movement supllied most of them, too many of our legislators cannot think beyond Sleeping Policmen. The pleasure of bouncing over them was diminshed when they were reduced to speed bumps.
November 9, 2025
While I can understand the concern that has led to Safeguarding documentation being required of all members of our Parish Church Council I was surprised to find that our beekeeping club is also demanding it of its members.
November 9, 2025
🤯 micro-management never works.
November 9, 2025
Tell me about it, but they try and get you when you have done everything to the book and even backed yourself up with photos etc.
I was accused of spending 24 hrs in a carpark which was approximately 5mins..I got proof that my car was at home.!
November 9, 2025
I think the rules, laws and prosecution with penalties over car parking and certain groups who park where they wish with almost impunity need major overhaul.
Most ‘offences’ are deemed OTT and punishment follows causing great angst and concern wherever we take a car. The car haters redouble restraint over use of cars constantly.
November 9, 2025
Maurice Saatchi in the Telegraph today:-
The People v UK Government: British citizens are now slaves of the state
Successive governments have knowingly conspired to subject all of us to years of economic emasculation
Too many rules and Taxes indeed, and too much borrowing and currency debasement too. Then most of this is wasted or spent doing net harm on things like Net Zero, net harm Covid vaccines and net Harm Covid Lockdowns, road blocking, damaging red tape, tax, over complexity, landlord licensing laws, HS2, encouraging and incentivising low skilled immigration, over restrictive planning, mad employment red tape …
November 9, 2025
Wasted on the NHS, which is degraded each time it receives another massive injection of cash. This money is NOT ‘to reduce waiting lists’ but to pay off what Jeremy Corbyn says is a mainly-non-native-British establishment.
It’s becoming unusable.
November 9, 2025
Billions being wasted by the NHS on net zero and DEI lunacy. Plus all the time being wasted asking men if they might be pregnant!
November 9, 2025
… In 42 different languages!
November 9, 2025
The delightful Dr Clare Craig explains clearly on her substack the latest appalling decision by the information tribunal to hide the vast Covid vaccines harms and deaths statistics. Freedom of information so long as it is not inconvenient to the powers that be!
November 9, 2025
A responsible government would surely want people to know so as never to repeat this disaster and to find ways, if possible, to mitigate the vast damage done. It will all come out in the end anyway the damning stats. are clear from other countries anyway.
November 9, 2025
The UK government still recommends and provides access to COVID-19 vaccines, particularly for vulnerable groups, though the approach is now targeted rather than a general population “push”.
Do they still think this does more good than harm? Do they really have statistics that show any net benefits? If not as I suspect why are they spending our money doing even more net harm?
November 9, 2025
I know many elderly people who are still getting COVID jabs, thinking it gives them protection. The message of its damage isn’t getting out there, no doubt suppressed by the Government.
November 9, 2025
Is this perhaps a fiscal measure to save on pensions? Or do they have real evidence to support their use – I doubt that they have such data.
November 9, 2025
Barbara Kellog said at a Bilderberg Conference about 35 years ago that ‘the world did not need the poor, sick or old’.
Unfortunately the poor could not all get the shot, but you are right about the sick – made ill by the shot (save on compensation) and the old (save on pensions).
November 9, 2025
Not too late for Starmer to honourably kill the Chagos deal says the Telegraph yesterday – so why is Trump not doing this can Farage not nudge him to do so?
November 9, 2025
Ll. There’s too many brown envelopes been passed round for the deal to be cancelled. Personal financial gain by the great and good Trumps national security evertime. Burgess and McLean spring to mind. Those bastions of allegiance to Britain
November 9, 2025
Trump’s own people have tried, but he seems to have got the wrong end of the stick when it comes to understanding this deal. Nigel rarely mentions Trump nowadays, so I think their friendship has cooled somewhat.
November 9, 2025
Trump rumbled Nigel. So did Musk. He does ‘not have what it takes’.
November 9, 2025
Lynn you are wasting your breath, give it a rest please.
November 9, 2025
The prolifertion of the rules and taxes does lead to situation where most people, and businesses, are inadvertently non-compliant to some obscure regulation or other. This gives immense power to the authorities, who know that if they want to punish anyone at any time, they can find an excuse to do so.
I believe this factor is one of the driving forces behind over-regulation. It facilitates corruption and tyranny, and should be resisted if we want to live in a decent free society.
November 9, 2025
Wanderer
Agree entirely, so many different rules now it is difficult to keep up.
Recent driving into London for a specialist hospital appointment and was met with a plethora of notices, Controlled Parking Zone (but no simple explanation), no entry during certain hours, red lines, yellow lines, differing speed limits (with only one advance notice and no repeats) Extended box junctions where you cannot see if your exit is clear, bus lanes but only at certain times, cycle lanes, visitors and residents parking, but only on certain days and times, one way systems, restricted entry roads with bollard protection, parking restrictions/charges/timings, depending on the emissions of your vehicle.
60 years ago I was trained to keep my eyes on the road so as to anticipate and avoid possible hazards, impossible now with ever changing speed limits and plethora of other signage, thus I spend much of my time looking at the speedo to try to avoid fines and points.
How many pages of guidance do HMRC have now for tax ?
A decade ago it was more than 22,000 pages !
November 9, 2025
Yes I agree. I knew a very high level Judge who had a farm and simply could not comply with the EU laws. Ear tags were ripped off by young animals by accident for example. Each one ‘a criminal offence’.
They know that if they scan enough cameras, sift through enough data, they will find some non-compliance.
They must have been very frustrated by Redwood. The whips had a blank folder! 😂🤣 he was completely out of their control.
November 9, 2025
Anarcho-tyranny is everywhere!
November 9, 2025
It would be a lot easier, and a much shorter list, if the MSM just told us which Labour MPs haven’t broken rules, lied on their CVs, broken the Ministerial Code and accepted lavish “freebies” (aka bribes).
November 9, 2025
Not exactly satire.
November 9, 2025
The poor souls have never had experience of owning houses and cars as they were all brought up in destitution.
Seriously, I’d put it down to the fact they’ve never worried about money-theirs’ or anybody else’s. Not because they’ve never had any, but because mummy or daddy toolmaker or whoever worked their socks off to look after their little dears. I just wonder how many of them had a Saturday job when at school. That would have engendered discipline into spending and saving.
November 9, 2025
They also know that if you break rules in the UK you can get away with it.
That is the greatest damage they have done: they have undermined the rule of law.
That has left the rest of us poorer and less safe.
November 9, 2025
Congratulations LL – you managed 5 in a row today.
November 9, 2025
MT,
Agreed!
I also liked the Saatchi, reference which I thought might appeal to LL. If it had been couched as ‘Maurice Saatchi is surely correct in today’s Telegraph’ it would have been peak Lifelogic.
November 9, 2025
Ministers that do not comply with their own rules have no business making rules for the rest of us.
More rules make life complicated, usually for no good reason. Parliament creates too many rules and laws, mostly bad ones with wording that can easily be misconstrued, but the problem is that this is the job of parliament. Would there be less new laws, less problems, if there were fewer MPs?
Life would be so much simpler if parliament was constrained on how many new regulations it issued – Just like our tax bible statuary laws have become over complex and make life more chaotic for very little gain, perhaps no gain at all.
November 9, 2025
They also enact a lot of work for us all. It’s very annoying to spend days just working for the government.
When they find they House had to process every law thoroughly on the floor – no Committees a la USA, time itself constrained how many laws they could, enact.
We need to go back to that.
November 9, 2025
This computer is illiterate.
‘When they had to process every law through all its stages on the floor of The House itself, time constrained how many laws could be enacted.
November 9, 2025
Mine is the same Lynn, even seems to change words after I have proof read it as I go along.
Perhaps it’s controlled by someone else, Ai as well as predictive text perhaps just to frustrate me.
November 9, 2025
Yes mine is the same, it’s new and the blessed keys register where your finger hit it and above an invisible line it inserts the number associated with the key.
I’m not a typist.
Like my horses, it’s really trying!
November 9, 2025
I made a mistake the other day. Lammy did not go to Oxbridge but to Harvard.
So we have resignations at the BBC for deliberately misrepresenting Trump. Those misrepresentations might have encouraged the assassination attempts. So it’s not enough. They have trashed their charter, they can’t hold a British audience, and they know it or they would opt for pay to view, and they are a national disgrace.
The BBC must be scrapped. Its archive can be sold to fund mass deportations. Germany is returning 1.3 million Syrians because their homeland is now safe. If they can do it so can we.
November 9, 2025
The old rule of do as I say not as ai Do, applies to the Labour administration Sir John. The resent court case brought by David Lammy against an Italian taxi driver taking him and his wife from an official function in Italy to an unofficial destination 600 miles away in France, should be a lesson to them. The French court threw the case out. They found the Italian taxi driver did nothing wrong.
November 9, 2025
RD
Indeed it is being reported today that Mr Lammy wants all of his staff to call him Deputy Prime Minister when they address him.
Sounds a bit like the arrogant Mr Andrew Windsor, “do you know who I am ” syndrome.
November 9, 2025
Sir John
As if to be in synergy Maurice Saatchi ran with an item in the Telegraph yesterday.
“The People v UK Government: British citizens are now slaves of the state”
“Successive governments have knowingly conspired to subject all of us to years of economic emasculation”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/08/the-people-v-uk-government/
To me Parliament or at least the majority have and attitude of ‘better-than-though’, while at the same time they themselves abuse the structures and systems that make for good government and a stable country. Enter the Two-Tier-State, should people that take their lead from the morality and integrity shown by the majority in parliament really not expect the same treatment?
That is not to suggest those not in the majority should be let off, all the time we are not hearing them the assumption is they all agree. Although there maybe something to be said from a comment on these pages the other day that inferred the ‘Speaker’ is not being unbiased with attitude to the ‘House’
November 9, 2025
It is better when life runs smoothly. Dynamics should flow in the same direction, avoiding needless rules, restrictions and added expense.
Simple efficiency with less is best, yet clumsy Labour adds lumpy worthlessness and converts so many simple things into awkward processes.
A free country doesn’t need an army of turnpike gatekeepers but this one does need something efficient around our borders to keep our citizens safe.
November 9, 2025
There will be an explosion of rules and taxes if the country is still attempting Net Zero CO2 emissions by 2050 and the UN NDC of an 81% reduction by 2035 when the goal of electrification and smart meters has been implemented.
BTW, given that a Parliament cannot bind its successor, will the current Parliament be able to bind the country into unnecessary, expensive and unreliable “clean energy” until 2050 or beyond by signing 20/25 year contracts for hundreds of £billions
November 9, 2025
No.
November 9, 2025
A media round up – Labour internal revolts…
“Labour MPs have urged Shabana Mahmood to soften her plans for a Danish-style overhaul of the immigration and asylum system.
Reeves facing revolt over income tax raid that will hit NHS and teachers
This includes 283,000 NHS staff, 137,000 teachers as well as police officers, pharmacists and train drivers, according to a Telegraph analysis.”
So labour want more incomers at any cost and to protect its union donors – what about the Country, the People paying. How about equality for ‘all’, a level playing field for ‘all’ Clearly labour activists have realised that the term ‘broader shoulders’ is actually their own supporters.
If only we had a parliament that worked with the people, the nation equally, instead of fighting, dividing and bowing to TwoTierKier’s World, my friends first – for all others attack, attack, attack
November 9, 2025
Your self-compliance regime, rigorous and often onerous as it seems, points to one of the burdens, typically unnoticed by the public, of being in parliament or other elected representative of the people.
November 9, 2025
Sir John
“An 8000-word dossier compiled by a whistleblower that alleged widespread bias within the corporation.”
Is it bias when what happens is the ‘agenda’ and is manipulated?
Then you get the Telegraph headline, “BBC to review bias in climate change coverage”. I would suggest no one with BBC connections is fit or capable to review anything the outfit does.
What is parliament its 650 MP’s the ultimate managers of the BBC going to do?
Is any of these missteps/situations any different from the way those individuals in the UK Parliament, treat their job, their responsibility to the People and the Country? Who is leading whom, the UK Parliament, or the BBC? A disdain for the Country and its people is still a disdain. Manipulation and deflection is still manipulation and deflection. You can only lead, you can only have voice, an opinion on how others should act or direction to be taken, if first your own house is squeaky clean and beyond approach.
How can you make, implement laws, rules and taxes when in the first instance you don’t believe they apply to you, your buddies think you should be allowed to bring the HoC into disrepute, so give you a bye. If one deliberately let of by those empowered to hold them to account then everyone should be treated the same.
November 9, 2025
503 criminals were illicitly shipped, into the UK yesterday on the 7th November from France…
November 9, 2025
Socialism or Communism always have too many rules and regulations, so strangle economies. Also, today’s MPs do not have the standards of integrity of their predecessors in the 1950s and 1960s.
A combination of both is deadly, and today that is what the UK has.
November 9, 2025
When those who make the rules believe they do not apply to them, such as saying we must curb CO2 emissions to save the planet and then constantly flying all round the world, we know to where the country stands is heading.
November 9, 2025
All those MPs who are members of the Climate Crisis Cult (CCC) should show leadership and record and publish their annual CO2 emissions and advise what they have planned to reduce them to ensure an 81% reduction by 2035. This would show they are following the rules they have set for the rest of us.
November 9, 2025
One EV and heat-pump and restricted to 15mins of their home address ….like there planning for everyone else
November 9, 2025
The Prince of Wales attendance at COP 30, representing his father who is Head of State, deferred to the PM who sat behind the flag with mad-Ed on one side and the Price on the other.
I think it proves my point that we don’t need a Head of State, the PM DOES do the job.
If he is too busy for too many Official Visits and State Banquets, so much the better.
November 9, 2025
Agree