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In the past, expensive contracts like this were handed out as rewards to Tory donors. Help fund the party's re-election, and your company will receive a cushy r
by dizzy9 8mo ago
In the past, expensive contracts like this were handed out as rewards to Tory donors. Help fund the party's re-election, and your company will receive a cushy reward. See also the Cash-for-Honours scandal, where the Labour party were also found giving preference to donors in the selection for lordships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-Honours_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-Honours_scandal
- michaelt 8mo agohttps://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-pwc-ey-big-four-natwest-hydrogen-keir-starmer-secondment-staff/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-pwc-ey-big-four-natw... > Labour taking free staff from scandal-hit consulting firms > [...] The party has quietly accepted more than £230,000 worth of free staff from ‘big four’ accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Ernst & Young (EY) since Keir Starmer took over as leader in 2020. Still, I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that the ruling party was gifted £230k of free services from PwC, then brought a static website from PwC for £4.1 million of taxpayer money.
- TheOtherHobbes 8mo agoIn unrelated news Labour quietly dropped its plans to "restructure" the audit industry last week.
- plagiarist 8mo agoI wish a fitting comeuppance upon all the grifters taking up a seat which could've been filled by someone actually interested in governance.
- b00ty4breakfast 8mo agothese are exactly the kinds of people interested in governance. That's the problem
- aaronbrethorst 8mo agowhew, good thing Nigel Farage is a straight shooter interested strictly in good governance.
- defrost 8mo agoRisky life close to the edge you're sailing there... "If the wind changes, you'll get stuck that way."
- aaronbrethorst 8mo ago/s
- defrost 8mo agoFor your comment or mine? I'm happy to share. All the same, you can have a long successful careeer, but you say nice things about Nigel the one time and forever after they'll call you a goat f*r and throw milkshakes on you :/
- aaronbrethorst 8mo agoMy comment was sarcastic
- defrost 8mo agoThat seemed clear when I first replied ...
- boznz 8mo ago"In the Past", Now, and in the future.
- canadiantim 8mo agoin every democracy or other system of government, it's the same.
- kingstnap 8mo agoIt's because Tribalism and Nepotism are the default, not the exception.