UK's corrupt parliament has no right to give lessons to Hamas or anyone else

We do hear an awful lot of rubbish about the sanctity of the mother of parliaments that resides at the Palace of Westminster. Whenever talk of political corruption comes on to the agenda in the UK we are regularly assured that at least it's not as bad as in other countries. In typically condescending fashion Italy is often cited as an example from Europe of how bad things could really be. Further afield the old imperial overlord is also fond of citing Zimbabwe as the pinnacle of a corrupt political system and the Arab world as the home of nepotism.

So people around the world may be - or may not be - surprised to behold the unfolding spectacle of corruption that has been found to infest the House of Commons in the UK, where our elected representatives are happy to stand in judgment over the unemployed who try to claim measly benefits or poor countries they deem not to be trusted with dispensing aid money fairly among their people, but are themselves among the most corruptible persons on the planet.

Virtually all the 'honorable' members have been gorging themselves, courtesy of the taxpayer, with expenses and allowances that ordinary people would die for. Tory MPs get the moats on their country house cleared at our expense, Labour MPs build up nice little property empires on the back of the same expenses, and all to 'enable MPs to carry out their parliamentary duties'.

It is now dawning on many people that we live in a country with a corrupt police force, a corrupt financial system and a corrupt political class that brings us wars in the name of peace.

The next time the government bans a Hamas MP from visiting the UK or provides another excuse for sucking up to the state terror machine that is Israel, people will hopefully think twice before swallowing the lies of our political masters, who in truth know more about feathering their own nests than they ever will about bringing light and justice to the Middle East and the wider world.

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