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I can guarantee you, from conversations I have had with senior executives at these companies, that they fully believe they’ve got the regulators in their back p
by numair 5y ago
I can guarantee you, from conversations I have had with senior executives at these companies, that they fully believe they’ve got the regulators in their back pockets. Until we throw people like Nick Clegg in prison for their revolving door betrayal of their citizens, you’ll have some suspiciously incompetent and sympathetic politicians handling these issues. The whole Federal Reserve stock trading scandal should show you that these “public servants” will bend their morals for depressingly small amounts of money.
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- mathattack 5y agoShould we be more surprised that they’re selling us out, or more angry that it’s for so little?
- pjc50 5y agoIt costs about £150k to become an unelected member of the UK permanent legislature, and bribe your way into an office of state: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/arise-lord-offord-tory-donor-25213473 https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/arise-lord-offor...
- toyg 5y agoThose are the donations that were declared, to maintain a pretense of propriety. What sits in Panama, you'll probably never know. 150k is too low a price for that seat, particularly since the cash-for-peerages practice is now so old that the competition must be significant. Either there is more undeclared or this guy knows where the bodies are buried.