You Tell Them To Sod Off Sir Nick !

"Those travelling in standard class are from a different walk of life... they are not at the level of MPs and business people like me".
He added, I don't care about 'the mood' of the British people and that they don't think they should fund my 1st class travel... which I've done for 36 years. It's nothing to do with the British people that MPs travel 1st class. It's up to Parliament to decide on 1st class travel for MPs not the British people. I don't care what the British people think!"
Sir Nicholas Winterton on Radio 5 Defends first Class Travel for MP`s

Bob Piper and others are jubilant at the sight of old Tory England making an idiot of itself but athough he could have put it a great deal better I like Sir Nick`s attitude .By the “British people , he means “ the inchoate tabloid populist superficial fad of the moment , not the will of the People which is expressed though Parliament .
Nicholas Winterton is our representative .If you want our democratic representatives to live as despised middle managers whilst bankers and journalists get all the goodies well fine ,I do not .I would, like there to be less MPs but the ones we have I would like to see visibly deserving of respect . I admired John Prescott’s “Nothing is to good for the working man attitude” and I want our Royal family to be magnificent not Dutch style nothings s. Why ? Because they represent me and I want the person who directly bodies forth my part in the democratic process to look and live like someone who matters.
Once Vicars lived in houses built for Gentleman and that showed they mattered to the community . As the Church and all it stands for was attacked by secular society and socialist materialism the vicarages we were sold and the Vicars lived in dull little Semis.
Some people think this is a step forward , but who bought the Vicarages ? Bankers , stockbrokers ., media wastrels and the slew of somewhat less edifying people our society values today . Privilege did not disappear it was simply transferred from a position associated with the Common weal to others who were not
Our MPs have become powerless auxiliary social workers rewarded poorly and with a career path only open to the rich and slaves to the media and opinion Polls .Nicholas Winterton was telling the media and its rules to sod off , not the people . As our elected representative , he is "is" the people.