There has been a lot of bad press about Tory MP’s this week.
Second jobs in The British Virgin Islands, paid lobbying on behalf of Covid
contractors, and an attempt to rip up the standards bill to protect Owen Paterson.
Yet, whilst the media outlets have been all over this like a rash caused by an ill-fitting Burton suit, The Telegraph have been working on stories that really count. This week, whilst other national newspapers concentrated ...
If anyone was still in denial about the level of corruption
at the heart of government, they shouldn’t be now.
It was
ruled that Owen Paterson had broken the code of conduct when he lobbied
ministers at the Department for International Trade and officials at the Food
Standards Agency (FSA). This was carried out on behalf of two companies. For
this lobbying, he was paid £100,000 a year by the healthcare company Randox and
£12,000 by ...
I was speaking to a chap who carries out work for my company, the other day. We got onto the subject of racism and the recent abuse of England’s black footballers.
I have known him a long time, so he admitted to me that
until he started running projects in London, he had always carried inherent
racist attitudes. It was when he started working in London that he realised to
himself that he had a head full of stereotypes. These had been ...
So, the government has announced there will be a full
independent inquiry into Covid 19. It is going to be in the spring of next year.
The chances are, it will get delayed whilst Mat Hancock’s sister’s firm gets to
finish shredding the evidence.
What is the point in an inquiry? This is a government that
have an MP who is the anti-corruption champion and is, by coincidence, married
to the head of Test & Trace. Test & Trace is ...
I got involved in a twitter conversation about vaccine roll
outs today. What seems ridiculous to me is that people (particularly Brexiters)
regard it as something of a competition. This is due to the UK at last getting something
right during the pandemic as others try to get to grips with the vaccine distribution.
Opting Out
By opting out of the programme whilst still, technically, in
the EU, the UK appear to have stolen a march on ...
