As both of us, myself and Kumudini, a trained nurse by profession, have provided our services as volunteer social workers, especially to our community members who may not be proficient in English and lack knowledge of our ever-changing laws on benefits, housing and immigration, filling forms, telephoning and writing to their MPs, Councillors and London Assembly Members, so we are in an unique position to judge our politicians, their performance, helping their constituents who may have faced brick wall while dealing with various authorities.
I am proud to say that our politicians, on most part, are kind, caring and willing to help their constituents beyond call of duty, often visiting them in their own home if these elderly and fragile people are unable to visit them at their regular surgeries. This is unique British tradition one may not find else-where in the world.
One reason is that most of these people have entered political arena not to advance their personal fortunes but their genuine desire to help people who are less fortunate than them, many of them are born in wealthy families and attended prestigious universities like Oxbridge, so often giving up their highly paid jobs to become MPs. No wonder many of our MPs are highly qualified doctors, consultants, barristers, journalists, insurance assessors and professors earning a small fortune in their chosen profession before entering HOC, choosing a profession with uncertain future, as they have to prove their worth every five years or so, depending on goodwill of their constituents. Such intellectualism, dedication does not exist in any other profession!
One shining example is our PM Teresa May who has taken so many flakes, insults, not only from her own MPs but also from unelected EU autocratic pen-pushers like Michael Barnier and Jean Claude Juncker who take pervert pleasure in humiliating this nation who liberated them from worse fate than death if Hitler was allowed to triumph in WW2!
During EU referendum, I was not sure how to vote, whether to support Remainders or Brexit. But now if referendum is held again, I would definitely vote for Brexit, rather than remain in EU as subordinate nation under the thumb of Germany and France who enjoys all the benefits while we pay billions in EU coffer, courtesy of Tony Blair who surrendered billions of hard earned rebate negotiated by Iron Lady Thatcher, in the lone hope that he would be crowned first President of EU! He put personal ambition before national interest, not only while dealing with EU but also on Iraq war with publication of dodgy dossier, betraying the nation even in the eyes of many of his staunch supporters.
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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