Hey Plebs, Shut up about Dominic Raab — he’s Important and Special!

In any decent workplace, a person accused of bullying and harassment would be suspended pending an investigation. But it’s important that plebs grasp why this doesn’t apply to Rishi Sunak’s chum Dominic Raab — even though he’s facing at least two dozen allegations.

The first thing we need to get our inferior little pleb heads around is MPs are NOT employees. They might refer to themselves as public servants but, in fact, each MP operates like a little business. Though they don’t have to pay to rent their prime Westminster offices, they get a large salary and pension — and expenses are covered by taxpayers. But other than that list of things that makes them sound like employees, they aren’t. Got it?

As they are somehow not employees, MPs can’t be sacked. If they got caught doing something really reprehensible and they and their cronies didn’t manage to cover it up (see clip below of Tory Tim Fortescue admitting that child abuse would not be reported to the police but instead used to blackmail and coerce Tory MPs) then they would still not be sacked. What happens to them is they ‘lose the whip’ — which is an archaic way of saying the MP is deemed too grubby for their gang. Though they are out of the gang, they remain an MP.