The Conservative Party

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Leaving aside the whiff of whataboutery, the idea that no one can claim the moral high ground and therefore condemn the corruption in the Tory party is a bizarre take.

What else have they got?

 

[metalblue]

Leaving aside the whiff of whataboutery, the idea that no one can claim the moral high ground and therefore condemn the corruption in the Tory party is a bizarre take.

Condemn it all you like just don’t pretend this is a Tory only problem and that a simple change of government will magically improve things.

 

[ell]

I just find it amazing MPs even have the time to do second jobs.

 

[Mike D]

There are around 15 former union leaders also sitting in the lords having donated millions to the Labour Party.

Not one to be taking the moral high ground but the money is not theirs personally (the clue is in the name?)

BTW I don't agree with the lords and think it should be scrapped and replaced with a properly elected officials instead of grubby party donors.

 

[mat]

They have got their work cut out to take back control of the narrative on this one

Bash the French and restarting the troubles should do it...

 

[metalblue]

Not one to be taking the moral high ground but the money is not theirs personally (the clue is in the name?)

BTW I don't agree with the lords and think it should be scrapped and replaced with a properly elected officials instead of grubby party donors.

Agreed that it’s technically not their money but in practice beyond the affiliated contributions that a member knowingly makes this is about the discretionary contributions. We’ve seen over the past few months union leaders reduce or withdraw the discretionary funding to the Labour Party because they don’t agree with policy (no issue with that accountability btw) - now perhaps I’m doing them a disservice and they actually balloted members before taking this action; which would at least give it a sense of being a democratic decision of the union rather than leadership.

To your last point about an elected second house, I couldn’t agree more with you, it’s largely full of lackeys.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Bash the French and restarting the troubles should do it...

Perhaps they could also bribe the Argentinians to invade the Falklands.

 

[bluethrunthru]

this is going to make a few of them squirm

Which MPs have second jobs and how much do they earn?

Boris Johnson is proposing to ban MPs from acting as paid political consultants - Labour is also calling for a ban.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Phil1]

I imagine the fuss about second jobs wouldn't be an issue if they were actually any good at their first jobs the useless cunts.

 

[bluethrunthru]

This gets curiouser and curiouser - Cox releases a statement saying he broke no rules but has been filmed on a zoom conf doing work on the BVA case in his commons office which breaks the rules. He also says he cleared the trip with the chief whip before he left the UK - so Johnson must have known. Back bench anger against Johnson is palpable - Cox doesn't care if he drops him in it