That's not worth reporting though.Its probably got to do with the backlash from its own MPs. 100 of them abstained and a further 40 voted against it.
That's not worth reporting though.Its probably got to do with the backlash from its own MPs. 100 of them abstained and a further 40 voted against it.
Yup, and the donations regarding the renovations carried out at no.10. (think £840 Rolls of gold wallpaper etc) He could be in deep shit if the standards committee were able to do their job properly.
Will probably be offered a peerage.Owen Patterson has resigned as an MP.
Owen Patterson has resigned as an MP.
I think the government might have realised the seriousness of the shitstorm they created yesterday...
The government will rethink its plans to overhaul the policing of MPs' conduct after a furious backlash.
On Wednesday, No 10 backed a shake-up of the standards watchdog and blocked the suspension of one of its own former ministers, Owen Paterson.
But it led to accusations of sleaze, with Labour saying the Tories just wanted to "let off one of their own".
Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg has now confirmed the changes will not go ahead without cross-party support.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59163961
I’ve seen in quite a few places that this whole thing is blowing up now because Johnson wants to discredit/destroy the standards committee before some of his own indiscretions (like this holiday Goldsmith paid for) come up for investigation. Not remotely surprising if true.
Thankfully they are not all the same. But we do seem to be livng through an era of low standards in so-called high places.Surprise surprise, as predicted MP Claudia Webbe escapes a prison sentence and pleads poverty in order to try to avoid paying courts costs.
Brass neck of the bloody lot of them
Sir John suggested the Johnson administration was "politically corrupt" over its treatment of the House of Commons and said its attempt to overhaul the standards system was "rather a bad mistake" but "isn't a mistake on its own".
"There's a general whiff of 'we are the masters now' about their behaviour," he said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59188972
I was a bit too young to remember Major as PM, I remember it just being a very grey era in the early 90’s - but I love the fact he hates Bozo and is respected in Tory circles.
He went up in my estimation when it came out about him shagging Edwina.
That worries me for more reasons than I can explain.
I always saw him as a dour mousey character until then. The spitting image portrayal of him was exactly as I saw him.
Yes a bit too young myself