Geoffrey Cox

Alegrias1

David Lammy doesn't get anything like £23k a speech.

Is that thread still going about believing everything you're told?

Ha ha.

16 of the 17 recent Tory party treasurers, who all donated £3 m to the party have been given peerages. Coincidence? Duncan Smith chaired a committee which recommended a hand sanitiser to be supplied to the NHS whilst getting paid by said firm. Another coincidence?

I wonder if this is another conflict of interest? I’m sure it isn’t but when you consider that the new oil fields and coal mining is to go ahead, it makes you stop and wonder. It doesn’t look good does it?

The Tories have received more than £1.5 million in donations from the energy industry under Johnson.

A British Prime minister was asked at an international gathering whether the U.K. government is corrupt.

I find that entirely humiliating.

The fact that the question was even asked is quite beyond anything I could have imagined throughout my lifetime.

His answer was “the UK is not a corrupt country” - he’s right, it’s not - it’s this government that is corrupt.

Totally agree, and yet. If a section of his Government, MPs, citizens or GN supporters, condone the corruption, they become a significant part of it.

I don’t know about a section of government MP’s or citizens but haven’t seen a single GN member condoning corruption on here.If you know differently kali then say who.

There are plenty who have supported the government and swallowed their line over every little thing- lying and corruption included.

lemongrove

I don’t know about a section of government MP’s or citizens but haven’t seen a single GN member condoning corruption on here.If you know differently kali then say who.

I think Kali's probably working with the 'silence gives consent' maxim. There hasn't been much condemnation of the government's corruption from our right wing posters...

What they mostly do is complain about poor Boris getting a bashing...

Implication being that corruption really doesn't bother them too much...

You don’t know who ‘our right wing posters’ are ( none of you know the politics of more than a very few on GN.)
So this ‘silence gives consent’ view is your own construct MaizieD
There is also a distinct possibility that since the politics threads are dominated by left wing posters ( only a few, but vociferous) that posters stay off them.

All I have seen on here is that posters would like to see changes to what MP’s are entitled to.We can’t castigate any MP
If he/ she acts within the laid down rules.If they don’t then they should take the consequences.

If people clearly state they support Farage- then is not much doubt, is there?

Good post lemongrove.

Kali2

If people clearly state they support Farage- then is not much doubt, is there?

Farage is a tv presenter not an MP so is irrelevant to this discussion.

vegansrock There are plenty who have supported the government and swallowed their line over every little thing- lying and corruption included. I assume this means the reference to GN members.

Just as many members reject every single thing that the party they do not support does or says and traduces all its members in sweeping statements.

So many pots calling kettles black.

No lemon, Farage is a lot more than a TV presenter, tragically- he led a very racist campaign recently and supported leaving the EU for all the wrong reasons. Some people here clearly support his racist views and his politics, and some have even said they supported his campaign with their financial donations.

So should Patel and Johnson, just to mention a couple, 'take the consequences' as they have clearly broken Parliamentary rules, Johnson on a regular and repeated basis?

Who are these ‘some’ people? Can’t say I’ve noticed anyone saying they support any racist remarks or have donated money.

Please itemise the alleged breaches of parliamentary rules Kali.

Germanshepherdsmum

Please itemise the alleged breaches of parliamentary rules Kali.

Is that for Patel and Johnson? Bullying and proroguing parliament spring to mind.

Liam Fox is the Conservative MP for North Somerset.

This year he has earned £10,000 from a PR firm based in the tax haven of Panama for a total of zero hours' work.
He also received a £10,000 donation from Alexander Temerko, a Russian-born British citizen with an extensive business empire, mostly specialising in oil and gas. Temerko was a Russian defence minister in the 1990s.

These might well be within the rules, but I wonder if they are the sort of second source of income that most constituents imagine?

Clearly lying in the House to deceive is against the rules, and Johnson has done this on so many occasions they can't possible be listed here.

Goldsmiths company that owns the villa that provided Johnson with a holiday has been done for tax evasion.

Evasion of €24million btw,

Evasion, WWM2 or avoidance? If it was evasion the HMRC would be onto him by now.

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