Establishment networking, sleaze and corruption. A handy compendium.
- Thread starter teqniq
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Politicians are corrupt to the core, and given power the likes of Zarah Sultana are no different.Good old Ms Sultana still saying as it is.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
Have you any evidence to back that up? She comes across as one of the rare breed of honest ones but I await to hear differently.
No such thing. But I'd imagine, as I hinted, that she would have to be part of a government for her corruption to manifest in any noticeable way.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
FT is free of paywall today so this article from July about the Tory money-fixer Ben Elliot and the so-called Advisory Board is worth a read.
www.ft.com
Inside Boris Johnson’s money network
The UK prime minister’s own finances may be shambolic, but a secretive donor club is transforming his party’s fortunes
Thanks! An outline so others can read it Outline - Read & annotate without distractions
It’s pairing conventions. Lots of MPs are in COP26 and Select Committee excursions, so are paired with opposite numbers in the other party, cancelling out how each other would have voted.
It’s why they need to bring in proxy votes, or digital votes if absent. Another hangover of an outdated system.
teqniq
DisMembered
Tories Have Voted To Overhaul Rules For MP Standards Despite Frustration Among MPs
A vote has passed in favour of reforming parliament’s standards watchdog as part of a wider effort to prevent Tory MP Owen Paterson from facing a 3...
www.politicshome.com
They do it for all votes as far as i’m aware, but sometimes have a strop and suspend it for periods. The Labour MPs that abstained today have all (or mostly) come out and explained that they were paired and in most cases the reason why (e.g. my MP, Alex Davies-Jones was on a Select Committee visit).
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Top notch anarkiddie analysis!
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Sez the person whose schtick is to post tons of videos of Stalinists in jackboots.
teqniq
DisMembered
More grift:
goodlawproject.org
REVEALED: Minister’s partner’s firm awarded lucrative Covid contracts - Good Law Project
An investigation by Good Law Project can reveal that the partner of Michelle Donelan, the Minister of State for Universities, heads up the commercial unit at a PPE company that has been awarded numerous PPE contracts. Stronghold Global have landed deals to supply NHS hospitals, Government Covid...
goodlawproject.org
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Correction, Stalinists in the people’s jackboots.
elbows
Well-Known Member
lol.
Owen Paterson row: Government U-turn over MPs' conduct plan
Labour says the Tory move to cancel Owen Paterson's suspension saw the PM "lead his troops through the sewer".
www.bbc.co.uk
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Having done what must be about the worst thing, reputationally, that they could have done by even holding yesterday's vote, it seems to me that they have immediately relegated that to the second worst thing, reputationally, that they could have done, by backing away from their brazen attempt to sleaze their way out of this.lol.
Owen Paterson row: Government U-turn over MPs' conduct plan
Labour says the Tory move to cancel Owen Paterson's suspension saw the PM "lead his troops through the sewer".www.bbc.co.uk
We are governed by fools.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
Knaves and fools
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Those broughams can really turn on a sixpence. A silver one, obviously.
magneze
🎧
Paterson has now resigned:
www.theguardian.com
Perhaps he could have done this last week eh?
MP Owen Paterson resigns from ‘cruel world of politics’
Tory MP was facing suspension after standards watchdog found he had broken lobbying rules
Perhaps he could have done this last week eh?
not-bono-ever
meh
At least he retains his integrity. You can’t take that from him
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