Watch this Tory MP defend clawing back £20 Universal Credit from the poorest – it’s 1/255th of his weekly earnings
Snout in the trough (all right – bucket): the Tories reckon public money is better spent filling their overstuffed bank accounts than helping the UK’s poorest to survive.
Andrew Rosindell earns £1,575 a week for turning up to work as a member of Parliament – and last year claimed an average of £3,604 per week on expenses – and he thinks people who are defined by his own government as the UK’s poorest don’t need the £20 uplift on the meagre £76 Universal Credit they receive every week.
He really believes that he deserves 255 times as much as the poorest people in the UK, just for filing through the ‘Aye’ lobby when Boris Johnson wants to victimise the poor.
Watch him trying to justify his attitude on the BBC’s Politics Live yesterday (July 7).
Man with a salary of £1,575 a week tells people who have to live off £96 a week that he reckons they'll be fine getting by on £76 a week. https://t.co/gj1HpN8u4N
— Tom Pollard (@PollardTom) July 7, 2021
What a grasping, mendacious, wretched little parasite.
(I originally wrote a much longer article about this but WordPress, in its wisdom, managed to erase it when I tried to save it prior to publishing. The perils of being a left-wing social media journalist!)
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Fascist tory MP Andrew Rosindell intended to say on BBC Politics Live ‘ I receive £1,575 each week as benefits because I attend Parliament and vote for whatever my little fascist dictator duck johnson says is fascist tory policy. Actually I don’t need £1,575 because I can survive on just £76 a week. But I don’t want to join the “scroungers” who are existing on this amount because I am a fascist greedy corrupt callous tory boy!
Ah monies saved another MP pay rise hay
“Handouts”
He almost got way with calling it. I suppose it’s goes under the name ‘entitlement’ for the royal parasites.
“Handouts”. No, rosindale you complete arsehead. People pay NI. An insurance scheme to bail them in times of need.
Well, they need….NOW. You weren’t complaining when they paid in, so shut your grid and make sure they’re paid out.
I also heard the name dummkopf-schmitt mentioned; was I right in believing HE – of all toerags – wants to keep the extra £20 per week?
The same (Insert expletives here) excuse for a man who claimed for haircuts, underpants and £39 breakfasts, while depriving and enslaving the sick & unemployed has suddenly developed a conscience (Of sorts) has he?
Good luck to those who get it. Being on so-called ‘legacy benefits’ I havent had any increase at all – but I don’t in any way envy those on UC getting it and agree entirely that it SHOULD be made permanent.
My only worry is that it will increase the eligiblity criteria in future and make claiming even more of a ballache than it is. Neither the ‘rags nor labour will be so *ahem* ‘benevolent’ as to give more carrot with only the same amount of stick applied.
06/07/2020 Office Costs Member purchased new work mobile phone outright
Mobile telephone – equipment purchase £1,299.00 299 for a mobile phone, made of gold was it!!