Stamp Out Sleaze Day 3

We are into Day 3 of Stamp Out Sleaze week. The pledge launched today was: "I will not accept 'gifts' of any kind". 

This addresses one of the most serious problems in politics today - our politicians are for sale. Few people can forget Peter 'freebie' Mandelson's Caribbean cruises and other 'gifts' that he has accepted. But this is just the most visible abuse of power. Politicians of all levels are being targeted with bungs/bribes/gifts/whatever you want to call them. 

Yet, despite all of the publicity, it still goes on. Our politicians claim that as long as they declare them, they are in some way no longer obligated to the businessses and billionaires buying their attention. Does anyone really believe this?

Given the shocking moral vacuum in Westminster exposed by the expense scandal over the past week, there is nothing that we shouldn't question. We simply cannot trust our politicians any more. We certainly can't believe them when they tell us that the 'gifts' don't compromise them in any way.

We pay our politicians well enough that they don't need to accept freebies - it is pure GREED that drives them to do so.

Libertas is the ONLY party that has pledged to refuse freebies. Let's hope some of the other parties copy our policies soon.