| Tory snouts in the trough on 09:49 - Apr 13 with 286 views | HARRY10 |
It is not a case if they are all the same.
Camerons actions border in corruption, that is why there is to be an unprecedented inquiry.
Making money for speaking is not the same as trying to make money from 'grifting'. One is legal, the other is not.
As to expenses, it was Thatcher who started that ball rolling, by upping the expenses limit to £25,000 with a nod and a wink that MPs could up their wages while denying they had been given a pay increase.
The dodgy claims were merely MPs chucking in whatever receipt they could find to make up the total to as near as £25,000 as they could.
There is no previous equivalent of hundreds of millions worth of contracts (PPE etc) handed out to mates, as was last year.
Unfortunately as long as there are toadies all too ready to spin and misrepresent this will continue |  | |  |
| Tory snouts in the trough on 11:59 - Apr 13 with 251 views | HARRY10 |
it seems this is just the beginning
"Boris Johnson’s government has been accused of corruption, privatising the NHS by stealth, operating a “chumocracy” and mishandling the pandemic and climate crisis, by Sir David King, a former government chief scientist.
“I am extremely worried about the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, about the processes by which public money has been distributed to private sector companies without due process,” he told the Guardian in an interview.
“It really smells of corruption.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/13/tories-accused-of-corruption-an [Post edited 13 Apr 2021 12:01]
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