Tory sleaze

oboogie · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:11 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Michael Fallon wants a knighthood. He's popped up again to save senior ministers the shit.

I now know that Michael Fallon was the one lying his way through Sunday Politics too.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:14 pm

I'm not surprised.

I see Danny Alexander was on too. Osborne really is saving himself for announcing tax cuts in the last two years, isn't he?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:16 pm

Fallon
Never done a day's work in his life (University > Researcher > MP)
Has interests in care homes (and paid directorships).
Overclaimed his expenses.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:21 pm

Surprised. He looks like a competent accountant, and talks relatively normally. Maybe David Milliband will be like that when he's older.

Fallon's purpose is to be too boring to make the news.

oboogie · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:33 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

I'm not surprised.

I see Danny Alexander was on too. Osborne really is saving himself for announcing tax cuts in the last two years, isn't he?

Osborne always keeps out the way* when the smelly stuff is flying.

*or is kept out the way, not sure which.

Arnold · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:24 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

And once again we're to believe someone (Cruddas) who's been very successful and has just got his dream job, immediately decides to do something incredibly silly.

yeah, right.

He's just broken the 11th Commandment. "Thou shalt not be caught."

Winegums · **Joined:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:04 pm **Posts:** 706

Is it my imagination or is this government especially corrupt and sleazy? In the short time they've been in power we've had:

Andy Coulson (and Daves general cosiness with the dark lord and his equestrian underling)
A4E and the governments reluctance to ditch them, including continuing to hand them contracts after investigations were underway
Lansley's closeness to various medical lobbying groups
Liam Fox and Adam Werritty (thanks Althea)
And now, a rather obvious sign that money talks in the Tory party

Again I find myself asking 'do people vote for them just because they're not Labour?'

Althea · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:03 pm

You forgot Werrity

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:45 pm

Winegums wrote:

Again I find myself asking 'did people vote for them just because they weren't led by Gordon Brown?'

FTFY

Fozzy · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:49 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Ecclestone's concerns were fed into the policy process. But that was years ago.

The illegality, as you say, is important.

And once again we're to believe someone (Cruddas) who's been very successful and has just got his dream job, immediately decides to do something incredibly silly.

yeah, right.

And he's someone who's acted as deputy to that job for some time, so might just have gained an idea of how it's done.

I heard Cameron boasting about how he'd got a £18 million deficit in Tory funds down to practically nothing. And now we all know how, don't we?

oboogie · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:19 pm

spoonman wrote:

Typical. I changed my signature two days ago and now this happens...

Can you change it again to, "The UK: Where the Prime Minister has an attack of conscience and resigns forcing a snap election" please. Fingers crossed.

smod · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:33 am

Anyone remember this gem from Cameron on transparency? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... rency.html

Quote:

This incredible demand shows the power of transparency, and why we need more of it. Information is power. It lets people hold the powerful to account, giving them the tools they need to take on politicians and bureaucrats.

Althea · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:42 am

Hoisted by his own petard, methinks.

smod · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:00 pm

Cameron will announce who attended Number 10 dinners now. What an embarrassing u-turn.

smod · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:33 pm

Henry Angest is a raging euroskpetic, backs climate change denial groups and funds Tories http://bit.ly/aizm13

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