Comments by "Safir Ahmed" (@safirahmed) on "Sky News" channel.

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  13. Toolmakers reform of Parliament would include the following special measures that power obsessed politicians would not approve. Politicians and Parliament need urgent reformation to be tough on politicians and tough on politicians seeking personal wealth over representing their constituents. 1. All politicians bank accounts to be scrutinised to be monitored in the public interest. 2. All politicians expenses to be paid in arrears with vouchers. 3. Ban on politicians second homes. 4. All politicians required to use official student accommodation type housing whilst in London. 5. Politicians able to use public transport to be required to use public transport travelling between constituency offices and Parliament. 6. Political household wealth cap of £10 million to include all household wealth including property and include political candidates. Existing MPs and politicians with household wealth in excess of £10 million or any other amount agreed by a public referendum could be replaced with fresh by-elections with those within the political wealth cap. 7. Benefits and pension increases linked and backdated to percentage increases in MPs salaries, MPs pensions. 8. Recall petition for MPs to include ability to recall MPs and implement fresh by-elections for supporting policies causing poverty, hardship and cuts to social security benefits and pensions and foreign wars. 9. Ban on MPs second or more jobs except for qualifications, certification and licences and excluding ministerial roles and Parliamentary work. 10. MPs required to attend constituency office for a minimum period per week, every week excluding periods for leave, sickness, holidays but excluding additional jobs determined by public referendum.
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  19. Parliamentary Reform: If PIP cash payments are replaced with vouchers then voters will demand all MPs and Peers expense payments are replaced with vouchers. If the state pension becomes means tested then voters will demand that MPs and Peers salaries, pensions and expenses be means tested. Means testing will mean any MP or Peer with a household net worth including property of GBP £2 million to have the same Universal Credit taper rate percentage reduction in payment of Parliamentary salaries, pensions and expenses to a maximum household net worth of GBP £10 million including property. Any MP or Peer with a household net worth including property exceeding GBP £10 million will mean MPs and Peers will not be eligible for any Parliamentary salary, not receive any Parliamentary pension, not receive any Parliamentary expenses. DWP should monitor all MPs and Peers bank accounts for Parliament and take money from MPs and Peers bank accounts for overpayments, errors and fraud. DWP should be able to prosecute MPs and Peers including suspending MPs and Peers driving licence and passports until the issue of MPs and Peers overpayments, errors and fraud have been corrected. If new co-living projects approved from 2023/2024 onwards are not scrapped and converted into traditional housing where each household has their own contained living facilities then MPs and Peers who live outside London should be expected to live in co-living facilities near the Houses of Parliament with all Parliamentary payments towards MPs homes scrapped. New Labour has committed billions of pounds to Ukraine the most corrupt country in Europe. Bank of England has spent £4 trillion on Quantitative Easing from 2009 - 2022 with most of this money gone to institutional investors. Therefore benefit cuts and draconian measures to cut disability benefits are unnecessary and purely driven by Neoliberal ideology of Socioeconomic Darwinism by the wealthiest on the planet.
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