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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Wed 7 Oct 09:33
Over the summer Reform MP Sarah Pochin raised concerns and asked a parliamentary question about the impact second home ownership has and is having on rural and coastal communities. Turns out shortly after raising this issue she then went and bought a second home in Anglesey for a mere 800k.
Reform eh? Always looking out for the interests of the left behinds of whom they have so much in common with.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Wed 7 Oct 10:35
This seems to me to be yet another example of the problem with our politicians, regardless of party; a lack of judgement. Like the Labour cabinet taking all sorts of perks when they came to power, or Michael Matheson allowing his sons to watch an OF match on his work computer when on holiday, or BoJo`s Tories partying during Covid, did she not foresee the potential consequences of her actions? Or did she somehow feel she was exempt from normal expectations of behaviour?
If politicians show such lack of judgement in their private lives how can the electorate trust them to show good judgement in their public lives?
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Wed 7 Oct 10:57
This wasn`t a lack of judgement Wee Eck. Nobody invests 800k without doing their homework. There is money to be made and that is the first and only priority for these characters. You think Farage didn`t know that it would be a bad look to accept a £5 million gift from a foreign based crypto billionaire? He knew but he decided enough idiots would still support him and the money is what it`s all about anyway.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Wed 7 Oct 11:02
It`s a lack of judgement if you have serious aspirations as a politician in my opinion, whatever the short-term benefits. Angela Rayner also showed it with her casual attitude to her tax affairs.
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Topic Originator: NMCmassive
Date: Wed 7 Oct 11:03
I agree Eck. Irrelevant of their party, there seems to be a huge amount of rules for thee but not for me. A lot of hypocrisy and a lot of saying what they think people want to hear.
I suspect it’s always been that way but with the internet and how freely information is shared, the political class are being caught with their pants down constantly.
COYP
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Topic Originator: ipswichpar
Date: Wed 7 Oct 11:55
It certainly feels like a higher proportion of senior politicians are up to questionable stuff than junior ones (and I don`t just mean money for influence which one would expect to be skewed that way).
So either... you need to be more dodgy to get to the top, or it is due to increased scrutiny that they get found out. Rather downheartening, really.
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