A tale of two scumbags

Justyn Larcombe is £100,000 in debt.  It appears that this man who once had a successful career and a family wants us to feel sorry for him because he ruined his life with a gambling obsession.  He did not just squander one huge sum of money after another.  He sold family possessions, lied to his wife, and neglected a sick child.

Mr Larcombe, you are a scumbag, and I have no sympathy for you.  Of course many people in this country ruin their lives with excessive gambling, and many of them turn to crime to obtain more money to gamble with.

When will you develop an obsession with gambling?  Maybe you won't.  Maybe someone in your family will.  Maybe a colleague will, and maybe you will be made redundant when the said colleague steals loads of money from your employer and cannot pay it back.

The LibLabCons love gambling.  The evil Tory Prime Minister John Major gave us the national lottery, but did not put any safeguards in place to prevent it ruining the lives of stupid people and their family and colleagues.  The evil New Labour duo of Blair and Brown gave us casinos open 24/7, but also failed to provide any safeguards.  If you vote Labour or Tory or LibDem, then you are part of the gambling crisis in this once-great country.

Scumbag number two is Gyles Brandreth.  This horrid man was a Tory MP and whip back in the 1990s, and he has just spilt the beans on his activities in the corridors of power.  For those who don't know, MPs are required to vote as and when and how their party dictates, and whips are MPs whose job it is to tell their fellow MPs how and when to vote.  He explains:

Each whip has 25 to 30 individual MPs in his or her flock ...

One MP I saved from bankruptcy and at least three from scandalous exposure. They owed me their support. I helped supply others with a better office, a place on the committee of their choice, an invitation to a royal garden party, tea with the prime minister, a parliamentary trip to a sun-kissed island in the West Indies, and the promise of preferment. They were in my debt.

While saving a fellow MP from bankrupcy may be all very well, the other things listed are pretty disgusting. Why should any MP be given a trip to the West Indies as an inducement to toe the government line? He continues:

In my experience, most MPs are committed to their work. They’re not cheating on their expenses or chasing their secretaries round the House of Commons library. They work long hours in the interests of those they are elected to serve.

They may not have chased their secretaries, but Brandreth makes clear that at least one of the MPs in his flock was an adulterer.  As for not cheating their expenses, what planet is this man on?

Fortunately, Brandreth was not allowed more than one term in parliament.  He notes that:

Some of my colleagues who also lost their seats had breakdowns. Others, because of their age and because they had little experience outside politics, found it impossible to get another job.

I have no sympathy for any Conservative MP, nor for any Labour or LibDem MP.  They are parasites who feed off a largely gullible public.  Britain would be a much better place if the LibLabCon parties had no MPs at all.

Update: another former Conservative MP has lifted the lid on events in the House of Commons.  If you don't have time to read it right through, then it includes the quote: when it came to dirty tricks, I was just an amateur compared to the whips.  We pay their salaries.

Another update: Justyn Larcombe's wife has now spoken out about his selfish behaviour.