Thread by @EuropeanPowell

As austerity measures increase their impact on UK citizens lives and livelihoods so does the surplus needs of the ultra wealthy who run Govt.
Newton's action and reaction model in motion.
No Cost of Living Crisis for High-Earning MPs bylinetimes.com/2023/02/23/no-…

Does this sound like UK politicians are in touch with a country in the grips of a cost-of-living-crisis?
Disaster capitalists thrive on disorder and chaos, their 'expertise' lies in shorting the economy while looting the public purse. Distraction and division are key factors here

Conservative MP for Tewkesbury Laurence Robertson earned £27,295 on top of his over £80,000 MP salary largely as a parliamentary advisor to gambling lobby group the Betting and Gaming Council.

554 MPs representing constituencies outside of London are allowed to file on expenses the cost of a 2nd home in London, including rent and energy bills, according to the rules of the parliamentary expenses regulator IPSA. IPSA turned a blind eye to the biased research of the ERG.

£9.6 million pounds of taxpayers cash to pay for rent and bills of MPs’ 2nd homes. £5.4 million of that total went to Conservative MPs – or an average of £19,497 a year per claiming party MP.
Being an MP has benefits that no other job has, these people are the real scroungers.

@openDemocracy revealed that British MPs have charged taxpayers £420,000 for energy bills in their 2nd homes over the last 3 years. Matt Hancock made the most cost of living claims in 2021-2022, taxpayers funded £34,242 worth of 2nd home costs +£3496 in energy bills. #Toryscum

Tory Stuart Anderson, who claimed £3768, and Labour MP Liam Byrne, who claimed £3723.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman, meanwhile, claimed £2881 from taxpayers to pay her energy bills last year.
Something is so fucking wrong with this system!

Transfer of public wealth to private hands during times of crisis is a stock-in-trade move of r/w libertarians, they do this when capital accumulation is under significant threat. The domino affect of unelected Tories is a 'take the money and run' gambit as the UK burns.

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