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MP's accepting cash for lobbying

  • 21-03-2010 8:06pm
    #1
    SlabMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 462 ✭✭


    I see 3 MP's have been caught accepting cash for pulling strings. One of them Stephen Byers was looking for £5,000 a day. Do you think this will open up a scandal invovling more MP's ?


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  • #2
    deadhead13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭deadhead13


    3 former ministers at that. Byers told an undercover reporter that he had secured secret deals with ministers, could get confidential information from Number 10 and was able to help firms involved in price fixing. He is now claiming he did nothing wrong. :rolleyes:

    It was part of a TV sting, so I'm not so sure that there will be more politicians implicated. How widespread it is...who knows. The fact they were all Labour MPs is a bit embarrassing for the party so close to the election.


  • #3
    SLUSK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭SLUSK


    Apparently there is some sort of "cash for influence" scandal going on in Britain now. Labour MP's have been secretly filmed accepting money from people who want influence in politics.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8578597.stm

    In any normal country this would be called a bribe, but Broken Britain is not normal, it is broken beyond repair and BBC refuse to call this a bribe, instead they use the Newspeak term "Cash for influence" because they cannot accuse their leftwing friends in Labour for taking bribes even when they get caught on camera doing it.


  • #4
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    SLUSK wrote: »
    Apparently there is some sort of "cash for influence" scandal going on in Britain now. Labour MP's have been secretly filmed accepting money from people who want influence in politics.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8578597.stm

    In any normal country this would be called a bribe, but Broken Britain is not normal, it is broken beyond repair and BBC refuse to call this a bribe, instead they use the Newspeak term "Cash for influence" because they cannot accuse their leftwing friends in Labour for taking bribes even when they get caught on camera doing it.

    what, you mean politicians lobby on behalf of companies for personal gain?

    oh. my. god.


  • #5
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Its worse in this country I reckon........we've got too many politicians who don't have bank accounts and have shaky memories to prove any of it though and a population willing to vote in shady characters repeatedly.


  • #6
    SLUSK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭SLUSK


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    what, you mean politicians lobby on behalf of companies for personal gain?

    oh. my. god.
    They should be punished with whippings for this sort of behavior.


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  • #7
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    LOL at the OPs "outrage" at Broken Britain, what about beyond broken Ireland where this is the norm.


  • #8
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    SLUSK wrote: »
    They should be punished with whippings for this sort of behavior.

    most labour MPs will be out of work come June so it doesnt really make much difference


  • #9
    SLUSK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭SLUSK


    mike65 wrote: »
    LOL at the OPs "outrage" at Broken Britain, what about beyond broken Ireland where this is the norm.
    I'm not Irish and I think Ireland is a ****ty, crappy country that is also broken beyond repair.


  • #10
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Its not the first time it has happened and it probably wont be the last
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-questions_affair

    its not brobery because they are only asking questions or lobbying, these guys are not decision makers.


  • #11
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Its not the first time it has happened and it probably wont be the last
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-for-questions_affair

    its not brobery because they are only asking questions or lobbying, these guys are not decision makers.
    The questionable item is, these guys may not be decision makers now but they could be in the future and one has to ask, are the actual decision makers in the pockets of lobby groups?


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  • #12
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    kippy wrote: »
    The questionable item is, these guys may not be decision makers now but they could be in the future and one has to ask, are the actual decision makers in the pockets of lobby groups?

    the Labour party has received £11m this term from the unite union............


  • #13
    greendom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,382 ✭✭✭✭greendom


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    the Labour party has received £11m this term from the unite union............

    LABOUR party - i know they're doing their best to hide it, but that was why they were set up in the first place. To represent the working class.


  • #14
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    SLUSK wrote: »
    Apparently there is some sort of "cash for influence" scandal going on in Britain now. Labour MP's have been secretly filmed accepting money from people who want influence in politics.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8578597.stm

    In any normal country this would be called a bribe, but Broken Britain is not normal, it is broken beyond repair and BBC refuse to call this a bribe, instead they use the Newspeak term "Cash for influence" because they cannot accuse their leftwing friends in Labour for taking bribes even when they get caught on camera doing it.

    I don't think there is a sound bite I hate more than that phrase.


  • #15
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    I don't think there is a sound bite I hate more than that phrase.

    When the Tories get in, the phrase will slowly go away. It is just the catch phrase used by the Tory media to slate Labour's Britain.


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