Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.
Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison
Huge coverage of both
Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.
Media coverage? You judge.
Listen, if Taylor Swift suddenly gets awarded a contract to provide healthcare services to the NHS, is given part of the HS2 line to run or gets given a life peerage like Lord Siberia or whatever he’s called, then let’s chat about Starmer taking his kids to her concert shall we.
“We enter parliament to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets, that is its affair. We do not come as friends. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.”
- Joseph Goebbels
When it comes to standards, there are two levels: the one maintained by the Tories; and the one to which they try and hold Labour MPs accountable. And between the two is just enough space to insert a small planet. https://t.co/Mrl3s6UnrF
These Tory MPs calling for Angela Rayner to resign over £1,500 actually went out and defended Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi when he owed HMRC £4.8 MILLION QUID.
A lot of people seem to be really struggling to grasp exactly what the Tories have become.
It's no mystery to me- I've seen them up close, at work and play, and I think you guys need to understand what we're dealing with.
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Suella Braverman claimed £25,000 in second home allowance while living rent free with mum and dad. Now she's cracking down on people sleeping in tents on the streets.
Andy Burnham - "Why is it that people in the north are always forced to choose, why are we always treated a 2nd class citizens when it comes to transport... that is a recipe for the north south divide to become a north south chasm... it's really not right or fair."
#Phillips