Following hard on the heels of Cameron's Tory front bench revolt over 2nd jobs, where virtually all his shadow cabinet refused to give up their outside interests, comes this call from the shadow minister for police reform, David Ruffley.
He is demanding a ban on police officers having second jobs.
He said officers'
jobs were too important for them to be compromised “in any way”,
regardless of the economic crisis.
But rather than petition the government to finally provide them with their full pay increase, he just took the usual and easy statist option and called for a ban.
What a totally hypocritical action from Ruffley, especially when we look at Mr Ruffley's own outside interests which he refused to give up, from Theyworkforyou.com
giving strategic business advice (with effect from 19 April 2007).
(£25,001-£30,000)
Add all that to his MP's salary of £60,675, his last published expenses of £136,963 noting that he Voted strongly against a transparent Parliament, we can see that Mr Ruffley is sitting quite pretty, a pig at the trough one might say.
Ruffley said: “The prime responsibility of an officer of the law is to have all focus
and attention on serving. It is hard to see what circumstances would
justify having more than one job.”
No Mr Ruffley, thats what we expect of our MP's. That's what we taxpayers pay you for.
If there is one thing that I detest just as much in politicians that lie, cheat and are corrupt, its the bare faced hypocrits amongst them.
It is clear that this Tory MP doesnt consider his own role of being an MP important enough to be compromised “in any way”.
Doesn't it tell us so much of what to expect if the Tories ever win the next election. Cameron really should get a grip.
