Owen Paterson Scandal Explained - TLDR News
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Yesterday the Tories acted to defend MP Owen Paterson, who's been accused of breaking parliamentary rules. In response, many in the opposition (and even some on the right) accused the Tories of manipulating the rules to back their own; with many suggesting that this is the return of "Tory Sleaze". So in this video we explain what Paterson did, why the Conservatives defended him & what this tells us about the future of British politics.
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I'm not annoyed, I'm angry, because it's brazen, literal corruption.
I’m not surprised it happens all the time in politics 🤷🏻♂️
@@leonbell5141 - And the 'cover-ups' are becoming more and more glib [Johnson. B].
@@leonbell5141 Actually what has been happening under Johnson De Piffle Government is unprecedented.
Agreed and now seeming systematic in the sense of concerted efforts to evade and or remove effective oversight.
They don’t call it corruption though that sounds too bad only other countries are corrupt not the uk… lobbying or sleaze… just call it what it is!! It’s corruption!!!! News channels need to get a back bone and the papers!! And obviously the politicians who apparently also “work for us”
Hearing Boris saying "Paid lobbying is wrong" just makes me angry. His party has been getting away with it for some time! Let's not forget the track and trace scandal.
@PT Labour did not change the system when one of theirs was caught.
You expect individuauls to cheat but that is what the rulebook is for.
@PT That's such a weak argument. Whataboutism at its finest
@PT Conservatives who are in power, do something terrible, people call them out, and your response is “but, but, but Labour!!!”. Hold people, whoever they are, to account. Whataboutism isn’t a form of debate, you’re just trying to point at something else to distract
@PT What do you mean by this? The family tragedy occurred subsequent to the conduct in question and the investigation being opened. A horrible thing to happen, but the only people exploiting it are those using it as cover to get Paterson off the hook when he's been caught bang to rights.
@PT Exploit family tragedies? He’s corrupt and broke parliamentary code, losing his wife shoild have nothing to do with it
The fact that the Tories are willing to expend political capital and goodwill to defend this obvious grift makes me think there is much, much more of it going on.
"Tory" From the Irish language word toraí, meaning, 'Outlaw, Robber, Brigand'. It's in the name lol.
My guess is that even if they would likely win the subsequent byelection they simply don't want to have waste time and effort on it, especially when it would just lead to things returning to normal afterwards.
Because if they don't defend it they will all go to jail. They are all doing the same thing.
Why wouldn't you abuse your position like this when the worst you can get for it is 30 days suspension. I've heard of people willingly going to jail to pay off fines that were worth far less then what these crooks can make by cashing in. You'd be a fool not to.
I'd imagine that there's more than one person on that front bench with skeletons in the cupboard, the PM first amongst them. Getting the groundwork into place now so that they have an easier time weaselling out of it later
This is literally the definition of corruption. Why isn't this a criminal offense?
Because he´s an MP.
Because MPs make the law
Because the criminals make the laws...
Its criminal offense for us peasant
Because it is politics unfortunately enough.
Jesus Christ what scumbags, gets caught for paid lobbying and uses the memory of his dead wife to exonerate him. Disgrace
It couldn’t be clearer, he received money he didn’t disclose and then lobbied on there behalf. His dead wife (tragic as it might be) doesn’t exonerate him, he never declared his interests which breaches the rules!!! I’m sick of this…
Tomas Lane
The Tories are lower then vermin.
Yes, he was under investigation long before she died and has been punching all the way. He has voted against higher disability payments, higher welfare payments and to reduce housing benefit, against job opportunities for young people, against taxing banker's bonuses, and against increasing income tax on high earners. Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor.
Problem is nothing will change, it's just part of the fabric now. They are so good with spin that the likely hood is they will somehow make labour look bad.
I feel his wife's sucide is a terrible thing, and maybe he should be allowed to retry his case under the current system.
T
Yup, apparently all the fault of the scrutiny he got, not his actual, proven corruption.
"Paid lobbying is wrong" - then goes on to excuse paid lobbying
Thats Boris for you.
This is the new morality and ethics by the government of the present PM.
Cameron was upto it a few months back..
He got off with it too...If anyone couldnt have guessed.
@@rightray7463 the government's job is not to advance the businesses of who pays them more - it's to advance the cause of the people.
Also, in 2020 UK GDP "growth" was -9.8% - that is less than Italy (-8.9%) and Greece (-8.2%). *There wasn't one EU country* that performed poorer than the UK.
@@rightray7463 I hope the waste management business find you soon 💋
If Johnson, Leadsom and Reese-Mogg were so convinced of the fairness and justice of their motion, they needn’t have whipped their party to support it. They have a right to argue that the process isn’t fair and needs to be changed. But it is not a life-or-death matter for the government to save Paterson’s a**e. Therefore the use of the whip was unwarranted and THAT is what makes this a sleazy affair.
Stop calling it sleaze. It's corruption.
Corruption AGAIN
@@Red1Green2Blue3 the definition of sleaze: British noun “immoral, sordid, and corrupt behaviour or activities”. Sleaze is another word for corruption
@@michaelgraham1866 sleaze is a word used by the political elite to make corruption sound cute, cuddly and innocuous - in particular it obfuscates the clear line between personal scandal (i.e. Matt Hancock affair) and official corruption (I.e. Matt Hancock giving contracts to his mates). Call it out for what it is CORRUPTION.
Lets get brutally frank, down and dirty (along with the tories) here, Owen Patterson and his wife could reasonably have expected the Tories to bury this as they have attempted.. The suggestion that this contributed to his beloved wifes suicide? A blind man on a galloping horse would recognise this as beneath contemp the mere fact that he drew her into this much less the obvious lie!
"annoyed with the conservative" doesn't quite cut it. This just a blatant disregard of any parliamentary oversight. Don't like the outcome just abolish the panel. Not the first time Boris has done this.
Smells a lot like absolute monarchy in the hands of a Prime Minister.
@@moniquehuchet3646 I see they've slide this out amongst the current ****show as cover. "Boris Johnson has confirmed he stayed for free at a holiday home owned by the family of Lord Zac Goldsmith - who received a peerage from the PM in 2019."
Bent Boris
Luke your living in a delusion
@@rightray7463 80% majority from 40% of the vote. First past the post needs to go. Booming Economy are you serious? It recovered ok, but still below pre pandemic levels. Lets not forget all the empty shelves, lack of petrol and the fact we have wide open boarders thanks to Brexit. We have no checks on anything coming from the EU because we cant get our boarders sorted. Think you are a touch delusional.
My first reaction was "wait we are talking about suspension and not jail time?"
“We don’t like the current system so let’s break current rules and blame unrelated collateral damage on it.” Wow. What a play.
What rule was broken?
@@0w784g Just the one where you engage your brain 💋
@@baikhous So you don't know either.
When he tried Prorogation theSupreme court shut his plan down so watch this space in regards to courts
@@oscarosullivan4513 Outsider with a question here. Would the courts get involved? I don't like the play going on, but to what extent can the judiciary control the internal rules of the Parliament? (My naive take is that prorogation isn't purely internal.)
His personal affairs are tragic and he has sympathy in that regard, but they are completely separate from the fact that he BROKE THE LAW.
She topped herself on his birthday,I have sympathy for her but him...zero.
Hes allready be mention about going into I'm a celebrity get me out of here. And them big bother and even a future leader of the conservative party. 💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷
I'm not "annoyed" by the Conservatives actions, i'm *furious* about them!
The investigation caused his wifes death, but his actions caused the investigation.
Perhaps it was not the investigation, but being Married to a disgraced MP who was taking bribes?
She topped herself on his birthday, that is a massive message to send anyone!
Here's for the years, enjoy your birthday! 🖕
If he was innocent why would she commit suicide. If he had any dignity, he would top himself from the guilt. But I highly doubt these self serving Tories have any morals.
@@if6was985 certainly looks like she was trying to send a message. totally aimed at him.
No scandal.....just BoJo and his merry band of crooks doing what they do best!!!
"Worship Boris Worship Boris" - CONservative voter.
@@angelicking2890 all hail the all mighty blonde haired clown that roams amongst us mere mortals!!
@@angelicking2890 or vote for a party who has a main policy of attacking itself. Starmer goes on TV and boasts about being g tough on his own party. Divided parties don't win elections.
@@julianshepherd2038 WHATABOUTWHATABOUTWHATABOUT. None of this has anything to do with Starmer. Stop trying to create distractions.
In Irish Torai, where the term Tory derives from, literally means outlaw.
Tories gonna do their their best, to stop accountability.
Eventually they'll run out if options. There's only so much that can be tolerated before the government has to answer. The only reason why things aren't going Lebanon is because we've haven't gotten there yet.
Pretty sure we can hold them to account regularly. 24 at the latest
Replace tories with any popular politician who has influence of a sizeable voter base.
They are already changing laws to suit them because they vote using their majority. Opposition parties are powerless. They have shown their true colour as a very bad faith.
I think this is a pretty blatant attempt at covering up the misdemeanours of a fellow Conservative MP.
That's it though. They aren't trying to cover up anything. They don't care if we know about it or not, they just want to avoid the consequences. And they know that as things stand they can. They think so little of the electorate that they just don't care what we know or what we think. They assume they have an absolute right to power so they will use it for whatever they want.
It’s kind of sick to use the death of a woman to excuse this rule breach
I'm starting to feel like we're going to hear a lot more about channel crossings or some shit in the next few weeks, anything to distract from this.
The dogs are going to be wagged in the coming days, that's for sure.
@@BigBlack81 they'll trip up eventually. Just look at Lebanon to see how things is going to end.
Yes. Refugees fleeing from a corrupt Banana Republic seeking asylum in nearby France. 😂
Definitely.
@@frankieseward8667 look at what's happening to the rest of Lebanon to see where that'll leave the rest of us
This mans actions contributed to his wife's suicide - he expects COMPASSION!?
It's seems deeply disrespectful to her to try and use her death to evade justice.
Owen Paterson should just independently resign.
Seems he has.
@@Pobotrol Haha you're rigth! just checked. Good riddance
@@Pobotrol "independently", he was definitely told to go.
@@Red1Green2Blue3 It saved them the embarrassment of a vote on his suspension.
Note that he didn't resign because of his wrong doing, but claiming opposition MPs had mocked his wife's suicide.
@@Pobotrol these Tories have no shame. Who uses their dead wife to try and cover up their corruption? 🤢🤢🤢
He's had proper process and found guilty. This is a disgusting breach of trust with the public.
Weres Cameron wasn't he at it to. I bet hes hiding behind his closed curtains. He uses to have a thing about closed curtains when he was Prime Minister.
Very frustrating. MPs policing MPs doesn’t seem very fair... If my friend robbed a bar and I was the judge that would be wrong...
Not only that, if I'm not wrong a judge can't judge a case in wich he has an interest. The judge literally shouldn't have any ties with the person he is judging
yeah the problem is that due to Parlimentary Sovereignty outside bodies can't impose things on the House. It's why the independent bodies exist/ed and this vote is really supposed to be a rubber stamp, sadly the party has decided to politicise a disciplinary issue.
Problem is no one else can police MPs, because MPs could just take over the right to police themselves whenever they wanted to, Parliament is beholden to no one... well aside from the queen. She could refuse to sign stuff into law I guess.
"The Code is more, what you call... 'guidlines,' than acctual rules..."
Yarrrrr, they blows!
Typical Torries. Forever protecting their own. Cronyism is rife in the Conservative Party.
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Funny stuff. If you think this kind of behaviour is limited to the Conservatives I pity you.
@@0w784g that’s not what they’re saying
I think the system does need to be changed. They need much stronger laws on cronyism and political corruption. They need to make these things criminal offenses and it should be up to real independent police to investigate and real independent prosecutors to take the cases resulting in extremely large fines, disbarment and jail time if found guilty.
OMG... Randox is the company we all use when buying COVID 19 tests every time we travel to the UK from other countries. Basically, every time I want to come back from my family visits in Spain I have to pay 40 POUNDS. Randox has made so much money these last years out of our pockets it's insane. This government is corrupted to the core.
Lets change the system so it is a prisonable offence, a suspension of 30 days is a joke anyway
I am ashamed this corrupt man is my MP
Mps in parliament should NOT have a second job, this would literally stop so much corruption
Huge numbers of them get paid ££s to write in the newspapers and appear on TV, do those constitute second jobs?
@@WalterKhayyam by second jobs i mean Lucrative ones, especially when their is a conflict of interest or a situation where both can be used to manipulate.
@@WalterKhayyam sajid javid is the perfect example, hes an mp more importantly the current health minister who has earned more than £300,000 pounds working for banks and investment funds in the financial industry, this can be so easily exploited and things like this leads to corruption
I dare say that the tone of this video is somewhat laid back. There weren't really two sides to this case. It was a simple matter of right or wrong.
Even putting aside the moral issue here, I don't see why they didn't just tell him to take the suspension, surely it would've been the quieter move PR-wise? They really are just as stupid as they are corrupt
If he takes the suspension, they could lose the seat.
When people give them too much power, this is what people get from them. Not surprise.
Creating a precedent
Cause it'd look like he did somthing wrong. Doing it this way makes it look more like a political issue, especially to the average citizen that may tangentially follow politics "the conservatives said x the opposition said y"
At this point the tories have complete control and are still high in the polls they don't need to be quiet anymore.
UK: "paid lobbying is illegal
US: "how quaint"
If I lobby for a politician , I better get fucking paid!
Yes the us, along with most other countries from what i see. Its very hard to find a politician of any stripe in any country that actually has principles.
It was more the fact it was undeclared lobbying he was lobbying without telling people that he is being paid.
This entire debacle makes me think the only person to enter the House of Commons with good intentions was Guy Fawkes!
This video isn’t really forceful enough, the idea that Johnson looks ever so slightly dodgy or “suspicious” with the timing as you suggest doesn’t anywhere near cut it. It’s blatant corruption, and it needs to be called out as such.
When did we start to call corruption "lobbying"?
"I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍🏻
Three little words : CORRUPT COVID CONTRACTS.
SHUT IT DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tories protecting their own, what’s new? If I break the law, I face serious repercussions. If an MP breaks the law, other MP’s decide the law doesn’t apply to them
This is a clear example of how corrupt this government is. The strange thing is that they claim to be the party of LAW and ORDER. If it was an ordinary citizen that was accused, and found guilty, they would want to have the full force of the law come down on her/him. It is time to hold them to account, and give them harsher punishments for such corrupt practices, as they are in a position of trust. Gaol should be one of the options, not just a suspension from the club.
Welp, there goes British democratie. If the government doesn't like ruling, they now know that they can just disband the branch that made it
Teachers are required by law to teach 'British values' in all their classes. These include adherence to the rule of law. Except, when the government doesn't adhere to British values - they aren't.
This is the kind of thing you get in some third world banana republic - and in Britain.
Being an MP is such a great gig. There are no qualifications needed and no set hours. You can do another full time job while you're doing it. You can be as corrupt as you like and if you get caught you can keep the money and your punishment is a month off work
Sadly we are getting more like America every day.....Corrupt
Its so true 😐
Ah yes, the "killing both your parents and appealing for clemency because you're an orphan" defence.
This was just about boris testing the water because he's going to need legislation to save him one day
Johnson is himself is likely to be investigated. Best get the rules changed asap so when the time comes it can be shown he is a fine, principled, trustworthy PM. But we all knew this anyway, didn't we?
hit the nail on the head!
Doesn’t matter, Tory supporters will still vote them in no matter what, it’s all team sports to them
Until players start turning on each to one up each other. Cultists always ends badly.
@@frankieseward8667 the recent National Insurance hike didn't phase them, the VAT rise in 2011 didn't either. I don't know what will.
@@giansideros homelessness. The nasty hangover of nationalism. Trust me the list is loooonnnggg.
Any Tory supporters with principles and a sense of decency will vote the government out next general election.
Tories are going to Tory.
BTW Owen Paterson has reigned now, and is no longer a MP.
A small comment here.
I would not have used "red" as a number for the first amendment.
For an uninformed viewer, who cannot directly put Andrea Leadsom as Conservative, this indicates, that the motion was from the labour party, which isn't the case.
And this could confuse viewers, why a Labour amendment is favouring the MP in question when they all spoke against it.
True, I thought that amendment was from Labor
Why doesn't this surprise me, it's the Norm.
I'll leave this here as an addon
The Word Tory It is derived from the middle irish word "tóraidhe", meaning outlaw, robber and pursuit.
Says it all really.
I can't help thinking that people have some serious secrets about BoJo which makes him "assist" those with this knowledge. Afterall look what was said from Cummins after BoJo defended him.
TLDR cannot express how informative these videos are. Far better than some biased news segment on a news channel. Keep doing what you’re doing!
What a shame as the PM can’t even see anything wrong with trying to change the rules to protect his party member. What would happen if everyone changed the laws in their favour when they commit offences according to that law! What a joke!
I don’t want him sacked! But fine him every penny he’s made from them!
One rule for the conservatives and another rule for everyone else.
I love those word. Angry,annoyed,outraged,disbelief and especially,may or could. When you see any of those it’s because no one really cares.
Here’s a change; criminal prosecution for fraud in public office
No need to explain corruption! A child can understand it.
Sleazy 90s Tories are back just awful and Shameless
They never left.
Let's all protest. Oh wait we can't, it's been made illegal by the Torres after we gave them full powers due to the COVID epidemic. 😭 So what do police officers and the military think about supporting a fascist dictatorship?
They love it! 😆
Literally the definition of moving the goal posts
The rules are weak enough as it is. Under them this MP should have been suspended. WE now have a government that knows when a rule or Law, goes against them all they need to do is get rid of it. Have you noticed, they have been at it a while.
He's my MP, he has done nothing for this constituency, especially for young people.
id get outside his office with signs and eggs.
In his defence; how much money have young people paid to him for lobbying? 🤔 Why should he do anything for them? I mean, money is the only way to engage in "democracy" these days." You get the politicians you pay for. 🙁 This message has been brought to you by the Greedy Politicians of Britain.
@@euansmith3699 completely agree! Young people who have no form of income should be paying an MP to do his job, it's the only sensible solution.
You should see his voting record!
What is the point of having rules if this kind of thing is allowed to happen?
Well now Paterson has gone saying he wants a life away from the cruel world of politics, it would appear to be a world which has served him very well in a financially rewarded way. The sooner the likes of him are out of the House of Commons the better, and the electorate deserve better than the likes of him.
Is there no end to Tory's corruption and cheek in denying accusations?
One rule for them, another for the rest of us...
It's not the investigation into his shady dealings that contributed to his wife's death, but his own actions and greed which brought the investigation about.
The phrase "moving the goalposts" comes to mind. 😑
Using the death of his wife (terrible man ) really with his corruption and her death I would have thought a person with integrity would resign not sit there with an arrogant look
Just a lot of corruption being protected by other people who are corrupt
Does anyone else suspect we are living on a pirate island, just off the coast of Western Europe?
As a 50-ish (?) year-old Irish citizen, I was always slightly embarrassed at what I felt was the low standards of probity exhibited by Irish politicians; certainly when compared to British politicians, who would fall on their sword when circumstances warranted.
Boris Johnson and the current crop of Tory Ministers/MPs have completely reversed my perspective: they are absolutely shocking, with a breathtaking level of arrogance and corruption. They say that the problem with democracy is that you get the government you deserve; surely the UK deserves better than the current bunch of kleptocratic cretins (or is that cleptocratic kretins).
If this doesn't show that people on the right side of the political spectrum are just a couple of policies away from authoritarianism I don't know what does
I'm on the right, this Tory party are where labor were in the 90's, to say they are right wing is just false. They are corrupt, self serving and sleazy. They will never again get my vote.
Never in the field of this country's governance was so much owed by so few to so many
We live in hell. Pure corruption. And no backlash. It's maddening.
Can you imagine the blazing tidal wave of incandescent outrage that would be spewing from every single media organisation if Corbyn had got elected last time around and then pulled something like this? There would be nothing else talked about for the next 3 years. He would be branded a despot and a tyrant in every rightwing paper and every pundit and talking head would be demanding his immediate arrest. But it's Boris, so everything's fine 🤷♀️
Bent as a paper clip , no doubt do very well in the government then .
Instantly put holes in Johnson's arguement like swiss cheese.
"How many of these meetings did he have while his wife was alive?"
(At least 10 if I was paying attention.)
Boris already backtracked on the Amendment!! What a shower! Wheels coming off.
a bit like the police we have looked into ourselves and found no wrong doing or if that fails just change the rules.
as an american and an outsider to the UK political field as a whole i am entirely on the side of the labour party on the simple ground of holding corrupt politicians accountable. that MP should be expelled and fined.
Like I said above, I am a complete outsider to UK politics and am only speaking on this direct story. My comment to holding corruption politicians accountable apply to all politicians not just certain parties or people. Don’t resort to these types of rash comments based off assumption. Touch grass bud.
@HEY 4Q2 beside the point
@HEY 4Q2 I will go with that
Take it through the courts. You can't do anything with their majority in Parliament.
What courts? Serious actual crimes like murder and rape have seen months, nearly year long waits because of the cuts the Tories have made to the legal and courts system over the last decade or so.
I’m NOT voting for Boris at the next election, I’ve had enough of him.
If you voted for him in the first place then you’re complicit in this shitshow. I solemnly hope you didn’t.
@@captainshakenbake5101
I know I didn't. 🇺🇸😆
I won't vote for him either. Neither will I vote for the socialist Labour Party. They are also a complete disgrace.
@@bmotion7648 labour ain’t socalist anymore, Tony Blair ended that decades ago.
Typical (far) right politician behaviour.
You think the left aren’t as bad? He was dumb enough to get caught…
@@glowwurm9365 Not that a left-wing politician might not attempt it, but they would pay for attempting something like this, politically. The Left eats its own is a common and very true saying.
Whereas nowadays corruption is part of the conservative manifesto in the anglosphere, so there's no political cost. Nobody on the right cares that Putin was involved in both Trump's campaign and Brexit for example: they barely even dispute it anymore, they just dispute that it was wrong to take his money, since their values pretty much align. And as the right currently sees itself at war with progressives, anything goes since "the ends justify the means".
@@jukahri I don’t disagree, the Tories have made an art form out of corrupt practices.
Personally believe this whole culture wars left v right BS is an attempt to distract ordinary ppl from the corruption and nepotism at the very heart of politics in the west. We are to busy fighting about the wearing of a mask to challenge corporate lobbying, environmental destruction, universal healthcare, fairer taxation (all of these by the way are general something both the right and left agree on).
It’s a game Murdoch and the dark money play very well, one practiced by the English empire for hundreds of years, pitch one group against another whilst you go pillage and steal as much as possible.
You can be sure if the independent committees had exonerated Patterson of any wrong doing the tories would not even consider examining the possibilities of unfairness in the system.
👏🏻 that’s exactly right!!!
Well, it’s not as bad there, mild to say the least. In America, it’s called “lobbying”, and Congress will exert nothing.
Who the fuck cares what they do in the US?
It's not as corrupt as Russia either, finding a worse example in the world is not a fucking argument, nor is it pertinent or helpful in anyway.
@PT Yeah the difference is that here it is legal lol… All of those points are completely legal.
@@JayJay5244 The Ministerial Code is not the Law, you can break one and not the other.
THIS is not the TIME to tinker with RULES it is the TIME to ENFORCE them! There is too much going on right now, he's found guilty do the TIME!
Annoyed?? This government is creating anger, plain and simple. We’re all - decent and honest people - angry at what they do on a daily basis.
Bloody hell Raynor's more animated and gets under Bojo's skin more than cardboard cut out Starmer.
Similar situation happening in Australia. Liberal MP (then shadow Attorney General) received and accepted an anonymous donation of over $1 million to fund his ongoing legal fees. The scandal forced him to resign from the shadow ministry. However when parliament proposed plans to look into this donation (similar investigations have happened plenty of times in the pass) for the first time in Australian history the PM and his party (The Liberals) essentially ignored the parliament and blocked all attempts to investigate the donation.
none of them care if we know about their dealings or not, they have no respect for the people who allow them their snout in the trough.
Blames the committee investigation for his wife's passing but not his own corruption.
Bribery and cronyism, really working through the Tory bucket list
The government are in total retreat over this. Number 10 has announced that there will be another vote on whether to suspend Owen Paterson "as soon as possible" with MPs also given a free vote on keeping the current Standards regime.
I don’t understand why they can’t suspend Paterson now and make changes to the system in the future. It just makes the conservatives look corrupt in an attempt to save a Tory seat. (Which probably wouldn’t be lost regardless)
He shouldn't be suspended, he should be sacked immediately and banned from ever holding public office again.
But when are MPs ever going to agree to kick themselves off the gravy train?
If it was up to me, he'd be facing jail time.
As a reward for corruption he gets the month off work
Being found out with fingers in the cookie jar is clearly the fault of those who didn't lock up the cookie jar. Being found out is clearly no longer evidence of a crime committed.
Im going to be honest if I knew were the cookie jar was I’d take a cookie 🍪 lol 🤣
I bet you that Paterson told the party that if he gets done, he will blab on what else Johnson is covering up.
Now he's resigned. Good riddance.
Another clear case of Boris and his mates doing what they want with no consequences.
For awareness, an MP's salary is £81,000 per year, plus expenses and funding for their office.
This MP was paid £8,333 per month for 16 hours work Consultancy for Randox and £2,000 every other month for 4 hours per month.
He made 3 approaches to the Food Standards Agency relatives to Randox and 7 approaches to the Food Standards Agency related to Lynn's Country Foods. Also, 4 approaches to ministers at the Department for International Development related to Randox.
The House of Commons Committee on Standers report is 173 pages, but does highlight this MP was in contact throughout the investigation, and given special dispensation due to the death of his wife...
If this MP were not an MP, would he be paid £120,000 per annum for 4 hrs 15 m work per week?
If it quacks like a duck and waddles like a duck with water that flows from its back; then it's a duck!