MP's extra security fund

I love how they keep banging on and on about ‘protecting our democracy’. We don’t live in a democracy. Four of the last five Prime Ministers weren’t elected by the public and the one before that got in by doing a deal with the Liberal Democrats, a deal nobody voted for and nobody wanted.

Cameron resigned and was replaced by May, unelected, and after she resigned we had Johnson, unelected, and then Truss, unelected, and now we’re left with this absolute charlatan, again unelected.

We’ve had 14 years of brutal and savage austerity, corruption, corporate theft, industrial-scale tax avoidance, colossal mismanagement, wilful neglect. We’ve had racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, transphobia. We have a crippling cost of living crisis. Things have got progressively worse since 2010 and this lot, when they’re not stoking the flames and whipping up hatred, division and extremism, behave and pretend as if none of the above is happening. That none of it is because of anything they have done or continue to do.

I do not condone violence but I understand why so many people are so angry towards politicians. The way this lot govern, they incite much of this hostility imo. They don’t mind it when it’s targeted at brown people or gay people or black people or women or the disabled or Muslims or trans people. They behave deplorably and then seem surprised when people are angry at them.
 
I hope they include Zarah Sultana and Diane Abbot on their protection list, who have reported death threats and abuse from racist extremists.
There wasn't any support or “protection” for Jeremy Corbyn as Opposition Leader, when the press and right wing media were camped 24 hours a day on his doorstep?
 
Does that include “protection” from the flotsam and jetsam who follow the lead of this scumbag and his footmen?

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Politicians are amongst the most privileged. They are able to create the social fabric that improves the lives and wellbeing of the General public through the laws and decisions they make. The fact they have created a society that increases the economic gap between social groups as well as deplorable health inequalities shows the utter contempt they have for the public. I find it quite ironic that they feel the public purse should pay for the protection they think they need from the society they created.
 
I think its definitely reasonable for them to be worried about safety. The murders and attempted terrorist attacks against MPs in the last 10 years have been outrageous.

£31ms a funny amount these days. It sounds like a lot in the context of security for MPs. If a premier league club spent it on a midfielder you wouldn't bat an eyelid. If they got two players for that you'd call it a bargain. Its nothing in terms of overall public spending. But then so is plenty of other stuff - giving nurses a more reasonable payrise for example - which the majority of our MPs set themselves against.

The thing that worries me about all the MPs safety rhetoric at the moment is that I can't help feeling that it's a little bit of a useful thing to say to shut out criticisms or protests relating to Israels actions in Gaza - when in actual fact those protests have been peaceful. You can easily see MPs spinning this into further erosion of our democracy as well. Getting rid of surgeries or hustings or something.
 
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