A Member of Parliament saying that cash payments are morally wrong is like the pot calling the kettle black. MP's have been taking immoral payments for years.
All this stuff from MPs about morals and finance is total claptrap - the market place has no morals!
They castigate city bankers in public and yet support the system to the hilt that bankers make their massive bonuses in.
The platform that these MPs stand on has a foundation of hypocrisy.
The idea of having a Labour Party was to have a political body that represents working people, but that got flushed down the pan due to self-interested individuals using the Party as a platform for their own selfish ends.
It would be naive to deny that some small businesses do trade and benefit from cash in hand transactions, but the reality in many cases is that if they didn't they wouldn't survive. Many of the same small businesses are likely to be missing out somewhere on reducing their tax liability because they can't afford to pay high-flying accountants as the mega rich do, so at the end of the day, it all probably balances out financially, and morally.
The people running this country don't have a clue with to regard to pulling the nation out of the current financial slump. All they can do is to play the blame-game, and they are getting desperate now because even they can see that people are getting fed-up with hearing that everything is the fault of the last government, and that unemployment is the fault of the people who are unemployed, and that the way to save the country is to destroy public services and to privatise the NHS.
It seems now that they have become so desperate that some of the tts think it's a good idea to start attacking small businesses!
You really couldn't make it up, could you!
