TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
It could actually be worse - it could be In Liz We Truss in Downing St. Bring back Boris! He knew how to make us laugh.
Tory leadership failure Part V: Rishi ‘Infosys’ Sunak
- Thread starter Tony L
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eisenach
pfm Member
The accident prone face of Rish,
The man chosen by the Conservative Party to lead Britain out of the worst economic crisis in nearly a century and a potential war with Russia looming. General Election quick!
Inadvertent ? They take us for fools. You cannot sit in a modern car that is moving with no seatbelt on without the warning bleeps and gongs going off - unless you do something to get round the system. Easy to do - just click the belt in and sit on it, for example : but that's a deliberate action.
MikeMA
pfm Member
billo
pfm Member
I can only hope and pray that, like a well known footballer in the 70's, he pays the fine from an account that he has not declared to HMCR
Ponty
pfm Member
Had a knock on the door this morning from local Conservatives, asking if I could fill out a survey. I said to the (very plummy) lady they did not have my support any longer. She was aghast and asked why, I said I don’t have time to chat now but maybe she should watch the news. Told her I would be voting Green and the look of disdain was a picture. I realise I probably live in a bit of a bubble but there is a whole next level of heads in the sand who are in for a bit of a shock IMHO!
Tony L
Administrator
Tory economics: £1m in, £80m out (Open Democracy).
Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
An interesting read about the outing of tax avoiding scumbag Zahawi.
https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/19/zahawi_story/
https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/19/zahawi_story/
Nye Samuel
Herr Katze
I guess Irony is lost on Sunak...'professional'? 'integrity'?
davidsrsb
pfm Member
No thats effectively the Tories dipping £1m from the taxpayers as a fee.
Corruption.
Tony L
Administrator
Not necessarily even that good. The PPE debacle suggests the Conservative Party will happily take bribes and bungs in order to ring-up the tax payer £bns for substandard or even useless goods rather than placing things to open public tender with standard non-delivery penalties etc.
PS This being so widely documented even as a website owner I have no worry of libel in stating it in these terms. The receipts are all out there in the public domain. The thing that is inexplicably missing is widespread public rage. I read somewhere that the money wasted on just the failed track and trace system could have paid current NHS pay demands until 2058! The scale of Tory grift and economic incompetence is simply staggering. The Truss/Kwateng scam knocked many £bns off the accounts too.
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
The story of the Tory Party. An ex-Prime Minister scoops a million quid from a Brexit party donor to go along with his rent free £20m Knightsbridge house ( rent normally £30k pm), his free wedding reception, free Downing St interior redesign.
Take a look at the last year alone, who he’s taking loot from and how much they’re stuffing his pockets with-
https://members.parliament.uk/member/1423/registeredinterests
…of course none of them want anything in return
Meanwhile his former *Chancellor of the Exchequer* forgets to declare several million quid in tax and gets fined over a million quid by the very department he’s responsible for:
“The Tory party chair, Nadhim Zahawi, has said HMRC concluded his tax errors were “careless and not deliberate” after reports that he paid a penalty as part of a multimillion-pound settlement”.
Sue Pertwee-Tyr
Accuphase all the way down
Even if we take the most charitable interpretation and posit that no individual politician expects anything in return for a donation, there's still an undercurrent of expectation that the politician isn't going to do anything that might upset or inconvenience the donor (or their interests). That might be out of sheer human decency (quiet there at the back) - you've been generous to me, I respect and acknowledge that by not shafting you in return. It might be out of an unspoken quid pro quo. Or it might be blatant graft. The point being that, regardless of the probity of the politician, donations translate into protection of the donors' interests.
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Yes. I guess if it don’t make it to the front page on the Daily Mail, then it doesn’t enter the mind of certain small c conservatives.
If this was a Labour it would be a running theme.
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Yet another example of neoliberalism at work. Privatisation of a company that was part of the MOD followed by a flow of public money, operating profits up 39%, going into newly private pockets
Finnegan
I like a bit of a cavort
Anyone who still votes Tory after this, does so full in the knowledge that they are shameless grifters, recidivist criminals, and self-serving scum. Even if you try to justify putting your cross next to Conservative on the ballot paper because your constituency MP is a decent enough sort, you’re still enabling this egregious, nauseating shower of venally corrupt crooks.
Tony L
Administrator
James Cleverly, a man seemingly out of his depth in any scenario, is the Tories chosen meat shield for the grift and tax shenanigans of Johnson and Zahawi. He did not do well in his Sophie Ridge interview. I’ve no idea how they find people to defend this level of blatant corruption. I’d certainly walk out of any job on any wage before debasing myself in public like that. I guess Cleverly enters any interview fully pre-debased. There is no ‘down’ left for the man.
The BBC is smelling real bad today too. I’m increasingly annoyed about being forced to pay a license fee to an entity chaired by someone who we now find actively funded Britain Trump and therefore the alt-right extremism of the modern Tory party. This is not the act of an allegedly “impartial” broadcaster.
The BBC is smelling real bad today too. I’m increasingly annoyed about being forced to pay a license fee to an entity chaired by someone who we now find actively funded Britain Trump and therefore the alt-right extremism of the modern Tory party. This is not the act of an allegedly “impartial” broadcaster.