In the debate about the Panama Papers and how Dodgy Dave Cameron has now published his tax returns, slimey Tory MP Alan Duncan stood up to say how important it was that ordinary MPs did not have to follow suit. The gist of Duncan's argument was that if hard working MPs had to disclose all their financial affairs a number of top notch fellows would simply opt not to be MPs and as such the Commons would be filled with, what this squirt terms, "low achievers".
Mr Duncan, being an odious little man, forgets that MPs are our servants not vice versa. It is the taxpayer who pays the wages of Honourable Members. We must graft away working normal working weeks with normal holidays for normal salaries and with normal expense arrangements to pay the salary of folks like Mr Duncan who work short hours with long holidays and are among the top 2% of wage earners. Mr Duncan is a man demoted during the expenses scandal after he complained that "MPs had to live on rations" and was then forced to repay £5,000 he had stolen with dodgy expense claims for things like gardening at his luxury second home.
I say stolen because had some welfare bum claimed and got £5,000 he was not entitled to Mr Duncan would have not only termed that theft but then screamed that a jail term was warranted, repaying was not enough. Mr Duncan is a man who thinks there is one rule for folks like him and another for the little people.
There is always an enormous list of folks wanting to be Parliamentary candidates for safe seats both Tory and Labour. Is Mr Duncan really saying that those lists would disappear - notwithstanding the great cash for short hours - if MPs had to admit how much they earned? That only poor people would want to be MPs? Is he implying that with the current secretive arrangements, Westminster is packed with men and women of real talent? Really? You could have fooled me.
Given his own shoddy record of embezzling taxpayers cash and the contempt his previous comments show that he feels for we the peasants, his latest words can come as no surprise. If those running the Tory party were not also drawn from the 1% and did not share - albeit in private - the contempt that Alan Duncan publicly expresses for the little people, they would be suggesting that he stands down.
They will not be doing that and you know why. Bring out the piano wire for the lot of them