SECRET: Multi-million "rakeoffs" of MPs, Ministers and senior bureaucrats
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  From "The Guardian" an English broadsheet  
  Guardian Unlimited

  Minister Admits: I Couldn't Live On State Pension 
  From the Press Association
  Saturday April 8, 2000 12:47 am

  Social security minister Jeff Rooker risked angering Labour MPs by admitting
  he could not live on a state pension of £93 a week. 

  Age Concern described next week's 75p rise in the basic state pensions, to £67.50
  a week, as "paltry". The minimum income guarantee which provides a top-up for
  pensioners on the basic state pension will increase from £75 to £78.45 at the
  same time. 

  Mr Rooker, 58, who is seen as a traditional Labour MP, is standing down at the
  next general election. 

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  `Perceptions' note:

  Corrupt senior civil-servants (and politicians) now have salaries and pensions
  of multi-millionaires.
 
  Their incomes are 'free' -

  but paid for by the poor without the consent, approval or vote of the public.

  - coming entirely from tax-money taken from British working people in return for
  promises that they - the government - would use that money 'to care for the poor
  and ensure a decent pension for every working person in Britain.'

  These taxes are huge and confiscatory - avoided only by the rich -

  (and of course avoided by senior civil-servants & politicians)

  working people and the poor, who are told they are paying 20% tax, really have
  more than 75% of their real (payroll earnings) taken, after VAT and `council tax'
  are taken into account, and even more is taken from the very poor.

 
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  MP's and senior civil-servants have made sure that _their_ salaries and pensions
  - paid from tax-money - are index-linked.

  But pensions of ordinary people who actually _pay_ those taxes are _not_ index-linked


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  see www.perceptions.couk.com/tax.html 

  As the self-awarded salaries of the politicians and senior 'civil-servants' have risen
  beyond decency, so the incomes of low-paid working people have fallen beyond decency.
   
  Fat-cats of the senior civil-service are now taking more than a quarter-million pounds
  sterling per year as their 'packages'
  
  Cabinet Office Minister Lord Falconer, the Cambridge-educated barrister, _allows_ himself
  an _additional_ 'salary' of £66,294 -

  that's an _extra_ £1274.88 per week (one thousand, two hundred and seventy four pounds
  and 88p per week) on top of his other "salaries" -

  at a time when the lowest State pension provision is £67.50 (sixty-seven pounds 50p)
  per week.

  The conclusion is clear: our senior civil-servants and politicians are financially
  corrupt, crazed by the private selfishness and greed that was engendered during the
  corrupt and lying "Thatcher" and "Major" years.

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  But the top UK media are given tax privileges to ensure they never tell the truth
  about UK taxes - ask Jimmy Young, Terry Wogan and Nicky Campbell

  But _don't_ expect a straight or truthful answer!

  They'll lie - like they do in

  www.perceptions.couk.com/coverup.html

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  instead try

  www.perceptions.couk.com/lowages.txt

  www.perceptions.couk.com/fueltax.txt

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  more evidence from

  www.perceptions.couk.com/ukrich33.txt

  www.perceptions.couk.com/real-life.txt

  www.perceptions.couk.com/pervert3.txt

  www.perceptions.couk.com/taxone.html#liar

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 A quick survey of criminals (pervs and frauds) in UK politics is at

 www.perceptions.couk.com/#uk-crims (Front Page)

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