Tory Corruption thread

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/MarinaPurkiss/status/1686659233557667840?t=XqnsnTcbSAxSqqaaGvFvHA&s=19

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/markcurtis30/status/1686412715751886858?t=gsFkuESzssP1lDaCiLV76w&s=19

I don't think anyone is surprised by this.

[Nefertiti2]

Osborne and Cameron have so much to answer for

In 2011, the Tory coalition govt gave LAs freedom to invest. In 2015, The Audit Commission was abolished.

[Eggchaser]

As long as they're Tory, or there's a seat to buy at the general election , there will be money for a bailout.

[Ginger Yellow]

There's lots more to come, many councils went on CRE shopping sprees using central government borrowing. Some of it was a pure investment play, some of it was questionable "support" for the local economy by eg buying up moribund shopping centres when nobody else would (but usually without any real plan to turn the round). Either way they're going to lose a lot of money.

[ursus arctos]

They make the Italian councils who lost their shirts buying complex derivatives from certain well known financial institutions look prudent

[Ginger Yellow]

these Thurrock threads are a must read

https://twitter.com/Gareth_Davies09/status/1631018094150787074?s=20

600 million from Gove to save a bankrupt Tory Council that handed hundreds of millions to a dodgy solar panel chancer

Chancer seems to be putting it mildly.

This passage is just....

A ledger of payments shows £12m went to a company that bought Liam Kavanagh's private jet.

There are also payments totalling £2m for his Bugatti Chiron car and £16m for his yacht Heureka.

A further £40m disappears into a bank account labelled "other".

An email Mr Kavanagh sent in 2020 suggests he always planned to spend council cash on himself. It says: "These funds… will be used to create a new family investment office and to create wealth for years to come. This has always been my plan."

[Sean of the Shed]

It's not corruption, but Lee Anderson has just become a parody of himself.

https://twitter.com/karl_trotsky/status/1685237822133862400?s=20

[Antepli Ejderha]

Like the postmasters, we're waiting until these unfortunate victims to die, how sad, hopefully their heirs will lose the will to pursue the claim after years of obfuscation and legal bullshit.

And the Windrush too.

[Eggchaser]

The French state paid up for infected blood victims sometime last century...

And it cost the PM his job

Like the postmasters, we're waiting until these unfortunate victims to die, how sad, hopefully their heirs will lose the will to pursue the claim after years of obfuscation and legal bullshit.

[Felicity, I guess so]

The French state paid up for infected blood victims sometime last century...

And it cost the PM his job

[Eggchaser]

That would be why Jeremy Hunt told the Infected Blood inquiry that the compensation wouldn't be much becausr we have no money.

What a piece of garbage. Low even by this Government's standards.

[Patrick Thistle]

https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1684586967944630272?t=u9Q5EbmJW79jEUiL1mRAxw&s=19

[Snake Plissken]

Ah well, nothing we can do. Such a shame.

MPs launch inquiry into prosecution of Norton Motorcycles pension fraud | Crime | The Guardian

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/graceonfootball/status/1683178745677467648?s=61&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow

[George C.]

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/17/m...glish-teacher/

Don't see any profound changes happening, besides, hopefully three less Tory MPs...

[S. aureus]

"was not sure about the passcode"

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/vicderbyshire/status/1679850005329240064?s=20

[Lang Spoon]

The Osbourne wedding email. Shady nonce.

[Eggchaser]

Here as good as anywhere, sex pest Pincher gets an 8 week suspension from the House. Another of Johnson's gifts to the nation.

[Ginger Yellow]

Not Tory corruption per se this time, but since Neidle/TPA were mentioned in the thread previously, they have a big two-parter on an illegal NI evasion scheme and the KC opinion that endorsed it.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/fascinatorfun/status/1671650818167042048?t=OwVbmkTsYOllYY5MaKd07w&s=19

A little bit more detail to what UA posted yesterday.

[Satchmo Distel]

My anecdotal evidence is that even some nurses who treated dying patients while Johnson threw these parties are giving him a free pass. NHS problems are due to all the freeloaders coming over, etc. This is in Leeds.

I just think the last 8 years proves that right-wing ideology is absolutely faith-based baked-in evidence-free and even in some cases patently against self-interest, even to the point of life and death. Partly that's racism and pulling up the drawbridge, certainly a hatred of the poor (Oh, our parents were poor but they were decent folk but now all poor people are scum, just as bad as the immigrants).

[Balderdasha]

Since it looks like the Partygate report is going to show him for the turd he is, I do kind of hope he tries to hang on and poison the Tories for a generation.

Even eejits who voted for him because they thought he was a "good bloke" won't forgive him when they find out just how much debauchery was going on in Downing Street while Joe and Josephine Public lost their jobs and couldn't go to their own parents' funerals.

You would think so, but the current word on the street amongst my mum's small town poverty-stricken Tory supporters is that it's a real shame he got booted out because at least he was fun and wasn't stuck up like those other Tories...

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/SteveJGoodrich/status/1671481263457280000?t=cupiRFA8VLAaC5K8VAeSiw&s=19