Dominic Grieve is right: this country is hosting
a minority which operates a favours culture.
£12 billion of NHS privatisation contracts have been awarded to companies that have donated £20 million to the Conservative Party.
£12 billion of NHS privatisation contracts have been awarded to companies that have donated £20 million to the Conservative Party.
13 per cent of the Conservative Party's entire
income comes from private health. Lo and behold, the NHS is being privatised.
Even though there was no mention of such a thing
in the Conservatives' manifesto. Indeed, the Conservatives repeatedly and
specifically promised not to do it.
There is whining in certain quarters about the award of Labour local government contracts to the Co-op. But the Conservatives really, really, really would not want any sort of inquiry into the award of municipal contracts to part donors.
They routinely have far dodgier financial arrangements than anything in this case. Any number of them, including at the very top, have all manner of chemical and sexual habits. They come from the background most likely to produce all of those things.
And, which is the biggest difference from Labour, no one expects any better of them.
There is whining in certain quarters about the award of Labour local government contracts to the Co-op. But the Conservatives really, really, really would not want any sort of inquiry into the award of municipal contracts to part donors.
They routinely have far dodgier financial arrangements than anything in this case. Any number of them, including at the very top, have all manner of chemical and sexual habits. They come from the background most likely to produce all of those things.
And, which is the biggest difference from Labour, no one expects any better of them.
Pakistan is officially one of the most corrupt countries on Earth.
ReplyDeleteTalk to any Pakistani, and they will tell you that it's a kinship society, where who you know, who your relatives are etc matters far more than anything else, when obtaining a contract or a even a job.
Grieve hasn't even said anything controversial.
He suggested that it was the main source of corruption in Britain. It isn't. His own party is.
ReplyDeleteLabour is-judging by the number of its MP's guilty of cheating expenses (hi, Mr Macshane).
ReplyDeleteNot to mention Bernie Ecclestone and that lovely plan to kick out hereditary peers so Blair could replace them with Labour Party donors.
However, David Cameron has finally said something we can all support this week; time to "get rid of this green crap".
High time indeed that we broke with the energy policy of former Energy Secretary Ed Miliband.
None of that comes close to Coulson and Brooks. Nor to the NHS scandal that the BBC is blacking out in the business interests of its Chairman, who is a Conservative Peer and a former Chairman of that party.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, not only did the Police and the CPs not want to antagonise the expected Conservative Government, but Labour politicians have always been prosecuted or otherwise disciplined more than Conservatives have been, and often for far less than Conservatives have blatantly been doing.
Whereas no one expects any better of the Conservative Party. Its figures are just assumed to be corrupt. In the present period, at least, that assumption is proving to be perfectly well-founded.