The Conservative Party

[mat]

Boris' paper have lost the fucking plot this morning. Blaming Tory corruption on a blairite left wing elite who they claim have been doing it for the past 11 years.

 

[mat]

Raab defends Geoffrey Cox for working from Caribbean in lockdown

Ex-attorney general earned £400,000 a year advising tax haven over corruption charges

www.theguardian.com

Raab out defending everyone today....

They'll send Patel out next saying she'll arrest anyone for commenting on it and jail them of they are a "funny colour".

 

[bluethrunthru]

Just watching Politics Live - typically no Tory MP has dared come in so they have to rely on a pro-Tory "commentator" - she is bluffing and lying so David Blunkett just put her right - its odd to see a blind man stare someone down but he is clearly angered

 

[RandomJ]

You just shouldn't be allowed to have a "second job" if you are an MP. People voted for them to represent them and that should be a full time job not a little part time gig where they get to choose when to turn up to parliament and then go abuse their position to cash in lobbying.

They are already very well compensated and add on the expenses and other perks they get and I see no reason at all why they should be allowed to get other jobs. The whole apple is rotten to the core and a serious shake up is needed in British politics.

 

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Raab defends Geoffrey Cox for working from Caribbean in lockdown

Ex-attorney general earned £400,000 a year advising tax haven over corruption charges

www.theguardian.com

Raab out defending everyone today....

Sir Geoffrey Cox, tireless defender of tax haven against the Foreign Office

The ex-attorney general has spent months at a corruption inquiry – acting not for a UK constituent but the PM of the British Virgin Islands

www.theguardian.com

"The UK taxpayer pays the core cost of the inquiry."

 

[bluethrunthru]

You just shouldn't be allowed to have a "second job" if you are an MP. People voted for them to represent them and that should be a full time job not a little part time gig where they get to choose when to turn up to parliament and then go abuse their position to cash in lobbying.

They are already very well compensated and add on the expenses and other perks they get and I see no reason at all why they should be allowed to get other jobs. The whole apple is rotten to the core and a serious shake up is needed in British politics.

Exactly - if your MP gets £400k for his/her side hustle and £80k for being your MP which job is really the side hustle? Plenty of their constituents have second jobs though - the reason for that being is to pay the rent or clothe the kids or just to buy food and thats what these MP's don't get as they are so far removed from reality

 

[kaz7]

You just shouldn't be allowed to have a "second job" if you are an MP. People voted for them to represent them and that should be a full time job not a little part time gig where they get to choose when to turn up to parliament and then go abuse their position to cash in lobbying.

They are already very well compensated and add on the expenses and other perks they get and I see no reason at all why they should be allowed to get other jobs. The whole apple is rotten to the core and a serious shake up is needed in British politics.

One is a hospital dr that worked through the pandemic , that is the only second job that should be allowed

 

[Bodicoteblue]

You just shouldn't be allowed to have a "second job" if you are an MP. People voted for them to represent them and that should be a full time job not a little part time gig where they get to choose when to turn up to parliament and then go abuse their position to cash in lobbying.

They are already very well compensated and add on the expenses and other perks they get and I see no reason at all why they should be allowed to get other jobs. The whole apple is rotten to the core and a serious shake up is needed in British politics.

I think that the tories who represent well-to-do southern constituencies which require little maintenance will be ok simply because most of their voters either don’t care or can’t see a problem, and don’t usually make demands on their mp’s time.
They will vote tory whatever.
Those who have so-called ‘red wall’ seats must be squirming now though. Their bosses would do well to remember where a lot of their parliamentary majority comes from.
It will come to a point where the northern voters finally work out that an increase in the number of food banks is not any form of ‘levelling up’.

 

[Gabriel]

No period has seen this level of corruption, it dwarfs all that's gone before,

Really? This chap at least had a price list!

 

[Manc in London]

I think that the tories who represent well-to-do southern constituencies which require little maintenance will be ok simply because most of their voters either don’t care or can’t see a problem, and don’t usually make demands on their mp’s time.
They will vote tory whatever.
Those who have so-called ‘red wall’ seats must be squirming now though. Their bosses would do well to remember where a lot of their parliamentary majority comes from.
It will come to a point where the northern voters finally work out that an increase in the number of food banks is not any form of ‘levelling up’.

Having had some dealings with local MPs, I am not sure if this is the case. Middle class people often know what buttons to press to get their own way, so they often use MPs to support them in disputes with the likes of the local council and health service. For example, those relating to planning enforcement and traffic issues. The white, retired, middle class are relentless. I have experience of these exchanges.