#Zahawi

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The cover up is often worse than the original act. Zahawi has dragged out the story, more people became involved. Threats of legal action were made to those who asked questions.

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Second-Rate Britain 4

By any stretch of the imagination Britain is far from the most corrupt country in the world. The United Kingdom is the 18th least corrupt nation out of 180 countries, according to the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International. Not too bad you might think, but in 2017 we were rated the 8th least corrupt country in the world. Clearly something has gone wrong.

“Peoples indifference is the best breeding ground for corruption to grow.”  Delia Ferreira Rubio.

Is this the reason the UK is becoming more corrupt and not less? Everyone in the Conservative Party knew Boris Johnson was a serial liar when they elected him as leader in 2019. Most of the general public who voted Tory in the last general election knew he was a serial liar when they elected him Prime Minister.

A majority of the British electorate WERE indifferent to Johnson’s lying, and this has set the tone for UK politics for the last five years. But it was not only the electorate that turned a blind eye to Boris Johnson’s lying.

“Its not just Boris Johnson’s lying. It’s that the media let him get a way with it. The prime minister’s falsehoods are mostly left unchallenged. If this goes on, the integrity of our politics faces collapse." (Guardian 18/10/19)

This is exactly what has happened. Scandal, sleaze and corruption have been the hallmark of Tory government for the last five years.

 In 2019, Johnson unlawfully prorogued Parliament, in an attempt to avoid Parliamentary scrutiny of his Brexit deal

Priti Patel, Home Secretary, was found to have broken the ministerial code during an enquiry into allegations of bullying.

Conservatives were accused of cronyism during the pandemic, issuing billions of pounds worth of contracts to their friends and supporters

In 2020, Johnson’s staff began to break Covid lockdown rules

 Matt Hancock forced to resign for breaking Lockdown rules.

The Partygate scandal broke, with Johnson denying any rules or guidelines had been broken. 

Former Tory Minister, and close friend of Johnson, Owen Paterson was found to be in “egregious breach" of lobbying rules, involving two companies paying him £100,00 per year.

Simon Case, the UK’s most senior civil servant, forced to stand down because he had attended one of the Downing Street lockdown parties he was charged with investigating.

In 2022, The Deputy Chief Whip of the Conservative Party was forced to resign after allegations that he had groped men.  It was reported that Johnson knew of this behaviour but had failed to take action.

Other dubious actions regarding Johnson involved payments around the refurbishment of Johnson’s flat: questions around who paid for his luxury Mustique holiday: an £800.000 loan and the political appointment of Richard Sharp as BBC Director General: a life peerage given to the son of a Russian oligarch despite the security forces telling Johnson it would be a security risk.

The list could go on, as there are many more examples of sleaze and corruption under Johnson’s period as PM.

We all know that his own party eventually forced Johnson out of office as even they had had enough of continuing Johnsonian scandals. The Johnson era culminated in the Parliamentary Privileges Committee investigating whether Johnson had deliberately lied or recklessly misled Parliament over the Partygate Scandal.  This committee has yet to issue its verdict.

It is interesting to note that it was lying to Parliament about partying that was Johnson’s final undoing. All of the other scandals, often involving large sums of money or turning a blind eye to unethical and ministerial code-breaking behaviour, went largely uncensored.

Is Johnson’s downfall a turning point? No, Johnson’s premiership has set the new low standard of behaviour in public office, and we can expect to fall further down the World Corruption Table.

From Sunak’s wife claiming non-dom status to save millions of pounds in UK taxes, to Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi breaching the ministerial code by hiding the fact he was being investigated for tax avoidance, sleaze is still the order of the day. Suella Braverman was forced to resign from one government for breaching the ministerial code only to be reappointed by another. From allegations of bullying by Gavin Williamson (forced to resign) and Rishi Sunak’s right-hand man Dominic Raab (ongoing enquiry), the current Tory administration is besieged by ongoing scandal.

Only  last week

“Former British cabinet ministers Matt Hancock and Kwasi Kwarteng were among the top Tory lawmakers who were duped into offering their services for up to 10,000 pounds by a fake South Korean firm, amidst a row over MPs taking second jobs.” (wionnews:26/03/23)

Some of these actions may not be illegal under UK law, but I would argue many of them are morally corrupt. And as Pope Francis said, ”Corruption is paid by the poor”. While our politicians are either busy feathering their own nests, or defending the privileges they already enjoy, it is ordinary decent people who suffer.

I would like to think that Kirk Cobain's believe that it is "the duty of youth...to challenge corruption" had some traction in the UK but I would be disappointed.

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Dos nuevos escándalos salpican a Rishi Sunak

Reino Unido esperaba un nuevo comienzo con su nuevo ministro Rishi Sunak. Sin embargo, el Partido Conservador llevaba ya más de una década en el poder y Sunak formó parte del Gobierno en los últimos años. En tan solo 24 horas se han tenido que poner en marcha dos investigaciones oficiales. La primera para evaluar los problemas con Hacienda de Zahawi durante su breve etapa como ministro de…

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Nadhim Zahawi

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Hunger Games: Chancellor Battle Royale (Crack Edition) Part 2

Arena Event

HOLY SHIT ITS FIRE WOO WOO WOO 🚨

WE START WITH LAWSON GETTING BURNT

KWARTENG ACTUALLY BEING GOOD FOR ONCE EVEN THO IT WAS FOR HIS OWN GAIN

GOOD RIDDANCE CUNT

WHAT THE HELL SMITH THATS ONE OF YOUR MATES!

THIS LOSER DIES

HOWARD GETS SLAIN BY FIRE ALONG WITH HAMMOND

AND MAJOR DIES AGAIN NOOOOOOOOOO 😭😭😭

Fallen Tributes 2

OHHHHH PLEASE LET SMITH WIN PLEASE LET SMITH WIN

Night 2

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😭

The Winner

LITERALLY ANYBODY ELSE SHOULD'VE WON

Placements

Less actual kills this time thanks to the arena events.

Summary

And as you can see, the summary is so short that I didn't have to zoom out to take a screenshot!

Statistics

It should be noted that poor Howard didn't even get to feed on anyone this round! At least Major got a kill...

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"It was a mistake to get rid of the incompetent, scandal ridden buffoon who partied away, whilst you couldn't see your dying loved ones."

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Rishi Sunak sacks Nadhim Zahawi for 'clear' breach of ministerial code | Metro News

The Tories are genuinely crumbling. They're all corrupt and they can't lead the country effectively.

There's no better time than now to make your voice heard.

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How can you carelessly lose 3M in taxes?

[eaglesnick]

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. -Alice Walker

Spot the difference.

“Tory MP apologises for failing to report extra earnings on time.” Guardian: 19/10/15)

Tory MP failed to notice receiving £400,00 in outside earnings. (Financial Times: 04/02/16)

Boris Johnson apologises to Commons for failing to declare £52,000 earnings on time." sky news: 06/12/18)

“A Conservative MP has not been formally disciplined despite breaching rules on declaring interests after being lent £150,000 by a businessman for a rental property and then writing to a financial watchdog to praise the same person."  (Guardian: 21/11/22)

“Nadhim Zahawi is under scrutiny over a multi-million pound tax dispute. The Conservative chairman says he made a “careless and not deliberate” error according to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), but he is now facing calls to resign."  (4 news: 25/01/23)

“Rishi Sunak "inadvertently" broke the code of conduct for MPs by not correctly declaring his wife's financial interest in a childminding company set to benefit from government support” sky news: 24/08/23).

Did you spot the difference. No? Of course not, there isn’t any. All of the above failures to declare financial interests or income were all slips of memory and totally unintentional.

It must be really nice to have so much money that you cannot remember how much you have or where you last stashed it. 

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One of you should do like a ranking of cabinet resignations this year. Just for the hell of it (though maybe just a top ten).

i don't know if i can rank them all being as there were over 60 with boris johnson alone iirc... but i have to say my favourite flavour of resignation has to be when some random MP you have never heard of resigns as a trade envoy or as a junior minister and they feel the need to announce it even though everyone else is like 'i have literally never heard of you in my life'.

that being said, my favourite resignation this year has to be nadhim zahawi being appointed as chancellor only to resign 24 hours later using official treasury stationary

obviously the sajid javid/rishi sunak combo is something to be grateful for just for bringing down johnson.

javid in particular was funny like... the man who resigned in 2020 because he didn't agree with the government, only to rejoin that same government a year later and then resign because he didn't agree with... that same government

honourable mention to michael gove who, amongst the mass resignations in july, still managed to be the only minister to get sacked.

- dominique

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Nadhim Zahawi