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Tories Are Wallowing In Sleaze
Owen Paterson vote: Tories are wallowing in sleaze, says Sir Keir Starmer
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Sleaze rules 'torn up'by 'shameless' Tory MPs
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.. shamelessness.
Definitions of shamelessness. behaviour marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame. synonyms: brazenness. type of: boldness, daring, hardihood, hardiness. the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger.
Sleaze rules OK.. are we bothered?
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I agree that Johnson is a disgrace.
This action actually beggars belief: even if Paterson had done nothing wrong, and I’m at pains to see how he could reasonably argue the case, this is a shameless attempt to move the goalposts and get an individual’s case put before a new committee chaired by one of Paterson’s cronies. You’d scarcely dare to make it up.
Why does Johnson keep riding roughshod over recommendations from independent bodies? Priti Patel’s case being another that springs to mind?
Possibly in fact probably because he thinks he’s invincible due to his popularity with certain key voters.
That perception deserves a rude awakening
This action actually beggars belief: even if Paterson had done nothing wrong, and I’m at pains to see how he could reasonably argue the case, this is a shameless attempt to move the goalposts and get an individual’s case put before a new committee chaired by one of Paterson’s cronies. You’d scarcely dare to make it up.
Why does Johnson keep riding roughshod over recommendations from independent bodies? Priti Patel’s case being another that springs to mind?
Possibly in fact probably because he thinks he’s invincible due to his popularity with certain key voters.
That perception deserves a rude awakening
Johnson has clashed with the parliamentary commission before, and it looks like the opportunity for revenge clouded his judgement.
// Kathryn Stone, the independent Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, has previously castigated the Prime Minister over a lavish £15,000 Caribbean holiday funded by Tory donors.
But he was saved from punishment - which could have included being the first serving premier to be suspended from the Commons, by MPs who overturned her ruling.
She has also pulled him up over an 'over-casual attitude' to declaring his own personal financial interests to Parliament, including a six-figure stake in an English country mansion. //
// Kathryn Stone, the independent Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, has previously castigated the Prime Minister over a lavish £15,000 Caribbean holiday funded by Tory donors.
But he was saved from punishment - which could have included being the first serving premier to be suspended from the Commons, by MPs who overturned her ruling.
She has also pulled him up over an 'over-casual attitude' to declaring his own personal financial interests to Parliament, including a six-figure stake in an English country mansion. //
//Priti Patel’s case being another that springs to mind?//
I happen to know a bit about what went on behind the scenes there. The senior civil servants were being obstructive to the point of refusing to carry out what she asked for, indeed on some occasions doing the opposite. There were other things too.
I suspect that is why she 'got away' with it.
I happen to know a bit about what went on behind the scenes there. The senior civil servants were being obstructive to the point of refusing to carry out what she asked for, indeed on some occasions doing the opposite. There were other things too.
I suspect that is why she 'got away' with it.
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In Westminster Paid Advocacy is banned but it is not a criminal offence. Allegations are investigated by the Standards Commissioner. The House of Commons decide on sanctions for MPs.
// He has no responsibility to pay any money back to anyone.//
a whistleblower selflessly endangering his career by telling da troof and er getting paid ( pas de peanuts - £100 000)
as TTT says ( so often) oh pullleaze !
oh by the way - as the wrongly convict er convicts say: you dont usually commit suicide if you havent done it - - (*)
(*) as some say usually black - after fifty years in da slammer - I knew it was God's will but there were times I wasnt sure what that will was....
a whistleblower selflessly endangering his career by telling da troof and er getting paid ( pas de peanuts - £100 000)
as TTT says ( so often) oh pullleaze !
oh by the way - as the wrongly convict er convicts say: you dont usually commit suicide if you havent done it - - (*)
(*) as some say usually black - after fifty years in da slammer - I knew it was God's will but there were times I wasnt sure what that will was....
There was one MP ( tory grandee ) who said,
"my email box was full of it / full this morning (*)- all protesting about sleaze."
my email is full at 180 000, so god knows what he meant
(*)Clare Rayner famously wrote - I have to return to the subject of premature ejaculation this week as my post-bag was full of it after my article last week
"my email box was full of it / full this morning (*)- all protesting about sleaze."
my email is full at 180 000, so god knows what he meant
(*)Clare Rayner famously wrote - I have to return to the subject of premature ejaculation this week as my post-bag was full of it after my article last week
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