{"id":1877,"date":"2016-04-15T23:37:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T23:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2016-04-15T23:37:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T23:37:41","slug":"i-became-a-low-achiever-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/i-became-a-low-achiever-in-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"I Became A Low Achiever In 24 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AlanDuncanMP-www.imjussayin.com_.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1885\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/i-became-a-low-achiever-in-24-hours\/alanduncanmp-www-imjussayin-com\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AlanDuncanMP-www.imjussayin.com_.jpg?fit=615%2C410&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"615,410\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AlanDuncanMP | www.imjussayin.com\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AlanDuncanMP-www.imjussayin.com_.jpg?fit=615%2C410&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1885\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AlanDuncanMP-www.imjussayin.com_.jpg?resize=615%2C410\" alt=\"Sir Alan Duncan | www.imjussayin.com\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AlanDuncanMP-www.imjussayin.com_.jpg?w=615&amp;ssl=1 615w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/AlanDuncanMP-www.imjussayin.com_.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millionaire Sir Alan Duncan, Rutland and Melton <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_parliament\" target=\"_blank\">MP<\/a> condescendingly dismissed people who \u2018aren&#8217;t millionaires&#8217; as \u2018low achievers\u2019 on Monday 11 April.\u00a0 I am not a millionaire.\u00a0 He also said during his defence of David Cameron on Monday that David Cameron\u2019s tax critics, of whom I am one, &#8216;hate anyone with a hint of wealth.&#8217;\u00a0 That is how I became a low achiever in 24 hours when I read the words of Sir Alan on Tuesday.\u00a0 Conversely, I don\u2019t think that privilege and income from questionable moral sources makes a \u2018high achiever\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Alan, a privately educated Oxford graduate, is a former oil trader.\u00a0 He entered politics as a multimillionaire and oversaw the Tory party\u2019s policy on MPs\u2019 expenses.\u00a0 His expenses included \u00a35,000 for gardening.\u00a0 Measures were introduced to kerb grossly inflated expenses claims, Sir Alan, who received an annual salary of \u00a364,766 at the time, said that MPs were treated as \u2018sh*t\u2019 and having to \u2018live on rations\u2019.\u00a0 Interestingly, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/parliamentarystandards.org.uk\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">IPSA<\/a> \u00a0data, he increased his office expenditure claims over five years by 24.4% to \u00a3162k.\u00a0 The taxpayers met these expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Alan was able to purchase a large property mortgage free.\u00a0 Twelve years later he secured a mortgage against the property for which he claimed MP expenses of \u00a31,400 a month for his mortgage interest.\u00a0 In six years he had claimed \u00a3127,658 under the second home allowance just \u00a3126 short of the maximum.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Alan lent his elderly next door neighbour the money to buy his 18th century Westminster council house under the Tory right-to-buy scheme.\u00a0 The neighbour received a significant discount, at tax payers expense. \u00a0Three years later, Sir Alan bought the house from his neighbour and combined the properties into one.<\/p>\n<p>There is no suggestion that Sir Alan had done anything illegal but is it moral?\u00a0 Slavery was once legal but that did not make it right.\u00a0 Tax avoidance is legal but that does not make it morally right and only our politicians, of which he is one, can change it.<\/p>\n<p>I would question whether Sir Alan\u2019s privilege makes him a \u2018high achiever\u2019.\u00a0 He knows the price of everything and clearly has an eye for an opportunity.\u00a0 Where we see hypocrisy and an absence of moral standards in our legislators we have a duty to speak out and insults should not deter us from our duty.\u00a0 If that makes me a low achiever, I can live with it as long as my morality is intact.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019mjussayin<\/p>\n<p><b>connect with me on Twitter: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/imjussayin2\"><b>www.twitter.com\/imjussayin2<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"likebtn_container\" style=\"\"><!-- LikeBtn.com BEGIN --><span class=\"likebtn-wrapper\"  data-identifier=\"post_1877\"  data-site_id=\"632a645f943ec93423ce055c\"  data-style=\"\"  data-unlike_allowed=\"\"  data-show_copyright=\"\"  data-item_url=\"https:\/\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/i-became-a-low-achiever-in-24-hours\/\"  data-item_title=\"I Became A Low Achiever In 24 Hours\"  data-item_date=\"2016-04-15T23:37:41+00:00\"  data-engine=\"WordPress\"  data-plugin_v=\"2.6.59\"  data-prx=\"https:\/\/imjussayin.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=likebtn_prx\"  data-event_handler=\"likebtn_eh\" ><\/span><!-- LikeBtn.com END --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millionaire Sir Alan Duncan, Rutland and Melton MP condescendingly dismissed people who \u2018aren&#8217;t millionaires&#8217; 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