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[Banjax]

Tonight 8pm Channel 4: Dispatches "delves into the murky world of political lobbying"

it's been highlighted elsewhere from the papers (can't for the life of me find the thread tho)

but if you're not up to anything tonight it may make interesting/appalling viewing 

[Nickbat]

Bye, bye, Byers.

And good riddance, I say. 

[Banjax]

Bye, bye, Byers.

And good riddance, I say. 

taxi for Byers - or as he says "cab for hire" 

it's not the greed so much as the stupidity in the current climate to not be at least a bit suspicious or guarded? he's either incompetent or dishonest, either way he's gotta go and anyone else exposed tonight 

[Nickbat]

Bye, bye, Byers.

And good riddance, I say. 

http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5859468/byers-hoon-and-hewitt-suspended-from-the-parliamentarylabour-party.thtml

As expected. 

[Banjax]

Bye, bye, Byers.

And good riddance, I say. 

http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5859468/byers-hoon-and-hewitt-suspended-from-the-parliamentarylabour-party.thtml

As expected. 

it was cringemaking watching these pompous fools blow their own trumpets, you could almost see the pound signs in their beady little eyes Hoon, Hewitt and Byers have hopefully just talked their way out of their lucrative board positions, and that self satisfied tory, Butterworth is it? made me laugh when he was hinting he was probably going to be made a Lord.....err, guess again pal - i'm surprised the interviewer kept a straight face 


shower of conniving grasping little bar stewards i'd expect it of a tory but the former labour ministers may well have just put the tories over the finishing line - they should be ashamed...ironically Brown doesn't come out of it too badly, the only mention he got was Hewitt, talking about lobbying for firms to ministers saying that GB doesn't like that sort of thing ie keep it away from his radar and we'll be OK.

utter disgrace, but sadly this stuff has gone on for centuries and will probably continue regardless. the bottom line is companies will pay to influence government decisions in their favour and no amount of objection from voters will change that, i guess most mp's are at least smart enough, or not greedy enough to get caught 

[Chris_H]

Sadly I think they represent the country (UK).  By which I mean that that is the way a large number of people operate today.
The new morality is not to obey the accepted rules, but simply not to get caught breaking them.
It's becoming endemic and part of the ploy is to point the finger when someone is exposed especially if you are already doing the same things yourself.  I remember doing it at primary school.