This is the main reason why millionaires/billionaires become politicians.
yet another tory pm resigns in shame when?
If a Tory resigns every time they do something corrupt we’d get through them pretty quickly.
Are y’all not going through them pretty quickly? I seem to recall something about bacon and lettuce, with a certain red-faced fellow potentially being the tomato that completes the sandwich.
In the absence of snark if the person/party resigning gets to essentially pick their replacement then their is quite obviously no reason not to just do whatever hideous shit you want to, then resign and escape responsibility entirely.
No the problem is the system has broken down. Normally they don’t do shit like this because it costs them votes, but since they know they’re going to lose anyway they now don’t care anymore. This is a very obvious floor with the system but it’s never been fixed because up until relatively recently, MPs tended to act with least a little bit of decorum / The scandals they got up to were mostly related to having various affairs, rather than inappropriate financial dealings.
Sounds like y’all are gonna have to figure out a way to make the law apply to the rich. Good luck. We’re trying over here as well and there’s been some progress lately but it’s been less about getting the rich to submit to the rule of law and more about us getting so pissed off at one of them that the rest of them are willing to sacrifice him to maintain their own patrician standing.
Modern Tories have no shame.
Please tell me this shit is illegal?!
Let me put things this way: In the UK all investigation and prosecution of Corruption is the sole responsability of the Serious Fraud Office.
Ever since the 80s, almost every single year under governments of the 2 major parties and even a cohalition one with the 3rd largest party, the funding of the SFO has fallen in real terms, to the point that it’s now at the level of the funding of a town council.
Just as recently as 2017 (if I remember the year correctly) the head of the SFO said they could only afford to prosecute a single large case per year.
By the way these are also the guys with responsability for prosecuting fraud, including Financial Fraud, in a country with over 50 million people, the 6th largest GDP in the World (last I checked) and were 17% of GDP comes from the Finance Industry (to give you a feeling of the size of it).
(Remember, they have the budged of a town council, maybe a small city one, to uphold the multiple areas of the Law, and do so for the whole country)
So of course there are no corrupt people in Britain, because nobody ever gets investigated for it much less prossecuted and convicted and if you ever point at anybody as corrupt there, they’ll crack down on you using Libel Legislation (which is so broad I remember this one time not that long ago that an Ukranian Oligarch used British Courts - which took the case - to punish an Ukrainian website who had a post in ukranian accusing him of corruption in Ukraine and the British judges in a British High Court took the case because “it could be accessed from Britain”).
If it would not be so sad, it would be funny, thank you for explaining it so well.
In a terrible twist of fate, we find that the world we have built is a parody of itself
Damn. These are Eastern Europe levels of corruption. Has it only gotten this bad in the past few years or were Cameron/Blair/Major etc. just better at hiding it?
Insider trade?
Of all the family values to export out of India, corruption and nepotism seem to be on top of Murthy family’s list.
ps : Sunak’s wife and Narayan Murthy’s daughter had avoided paying taxes on her nearly $1-billion fortune. Infoys also has a history of tax issues in a number of jurisdictions, including UK.
A. that’s racist
B. He was born in England, and his parents are Indians from East Africa
It’s racist because his values are not Indian, they come from England
A. Pointing out acts of nepotism and tax avoidance is not racist.
B. The comment was on his in-laws, their firm, and their daughter’s values.Sunak’s British values haven’t stopped his wife & his in-laws from tax avoidance and from profiting via nepotism, to which he, the PM of UK, is at best a passive participant and at worst actively involved.
Time to pay more taxes, everyone!
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Don’t you even try. The people voted the Tories, UK is not a dictatorship. We are paying the consequences of our stupidity.
He’s not a dictator because of the simple evidence that he’s terrified he’s going to lose his job which is why he’s pulling shit like this. Got to get all of the money out of the system before he’s thrown out of office along with his useless party.
