When I worked with architects it was perfectly normal and accepted for them to do their usually small-scale work in their own time.Line6 HXFX wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 1:32 pm So if I worked on the side whilst claiming unemployment benefits for a year or two, wonder what lovely fate would await me.
5 years in clink?
If I created and supported database systems on the side, whilst working for the local authority, wonder what fate would await me?
Instant dismissal?
Stop voting for fucking Tories
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I think making a declaration that you are unemployed and therefore receiving state benefits yet having a job would be the questionable behaviour. That is largely quite different from any conflict of interest/corruption angle the current trough guzzling bunch of crooks have displayed.Line6 HXFX wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 1:32 pm So if I worked on the side whilst claiming unemployment benefits for a year or two, wonder what lovely fate would await me.
5 years in clink?
If I created and supported database systems on the side, whilst working for the local authority, wonder what fate would await me?
Instant dismissal?
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Working for a local authority is a weird one.
They demand that everything you produce is theirs, they pay you, they own you and all you do even if you are a temp...so you couldn't wander over to the next local authority and sell your wares you created fir your local authority to them (with the requirements set out by the local authority that just paid you to do the work) .
Projects they've given you have to remain in house. They own you, it, the entire shaboodle.
"Hi Rhonda Cynon Taff, this is Refry from Bleanau Gwent, so this system will allow you to monitor and fulfil all the ongoing training requirement stats, of your Social Workers, to the latest Welsh Assembly guidelines, that will be 60 thousand pounds please".
But hey ho, I am not a Tory MP who lives in corrup'istan.
They demand that everything you produce is theirs, they pay you, they own you and all you do even if you are a temp...so you couldn't wander over to the next local authority and sell your wares you created fir your local authority to them (with the requirements set out by the local authority that just paid you to do the work) .
Projects they've given you have to remain in house. They own you, it, the entire shaboodle.
"Hi Rhonda Cynon Taff, this is Refry from Bleanau Gwent, so this system will allow you to monitor and fulfil all the ongoing training requirement stats, of your Social Workers, to the latest Welsh Assembly guidelines, that will be 60 thousand pounds please".
But hey ho, I am not a Tory MP who lives in corrup'istan.
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“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
I see no issue with that, its common practice pretty much in every company.Line6 HXFX wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 2:24 pm Working for a local authority is a weird one.
They demand that everything you produce is theirs, they pay you, they own you and all you do even if you are a temp...so you couldn't wander over to the next local authority and sell your wares you created fir your local authority to them (with the requirements set out by the local authority that just paid you to do the work) .
Projects they've given you have to remain in house. They own you, it, the entire shaboodle.
"Hi Rhonda Cynon Taff, this is Refry from Bleanau Gwent, so this system will allow you to monitor and fulfil all the ongoing training requirement stats, of your Social Workers, to the latest Welsh Assembly guidelines, that will be 60 thousand pounds please".
But hey ho, I am not a Tory MP who lives in corrup'istan.
Windfall tax time?
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Doubt it, about £615,000 has reported found it's way back into the Tory coffers...
The Tax Payers Alliance must be having a complete shit over all this.
The Tax Payers Alliance must be having a complete shit over all this.
“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
The Tories are getting nicely embroiled in a corruption scandal and Jeremy Corbyn's speechwriter decides that it's a good idea to get Labour in on the action.
It's a real mystery why we have a Tory government.
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It does matter that Starmer wanted a second job. How does Starmer have any legitimacy to attack them for something he wanted to do? "Well I'm not as bad" isn't a justification. "With labour in power we'll have the right second jobs!". Okay.robmatic wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:14 amThe Tories are getting nicely embroiled in a corruption scandal and Jeremy Corbyn's speechwriter decides that it's a good idea to get Labour in on the action.
It's a real mystery why we have a Tory government.
Yes, it would make sense for the Tories to point this out.I like neeps wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:18 amIt does matter that Starmer wanted a second job. How does Starmer have any legitimacy to attack them for something he wanted to do? "Well I'm not as bad" isn't a justification. "With labour in power we'll have the right second jobs!". Okay.robmatic wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:14 amThe Tories are getting nicely embroiled in a corruption scandal and Jeremy Corbyn's speechwriter decides that it's a good idea to get Labour in on the action.
It's a real mystery why we have a Tory government.
Isn't being a bully a minimum requirement on the CV of anyone applying for job of Home Secretary?ASMO wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:35 am Gruppenfuhrer Patel back in the spotlight, judicial review of the Bumblecunts dismissal of her bullying case next Wednesday.
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You have to have your empathy surgically removed before taking up the post, although in her case this was not necessary.Sandstorm wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 10:27 amIsn't being a bully a minimum requirement on the CV of anyone applying for job of Home Secretary?ASMO wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:35 am Gruppenfuhrer Patel back in the spotlight, judicial review of the Bumblecunts dismissal of her bullying case next Wednesday.
No wonder Cox pays so many vistis to the BVI. This is the gaff they put him up in. Tavistock or Totnes it ain't and he gets paid to stay thereSaintK wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:54 pmIt wasn't even for lobbying. He was representing the BVI government and their PM against accusations of corruption and misgovernance bought by the ex govenor who is a representative of our government.I like neeps wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:37 pm Geoffrey Cox made 1m quid from lobbying for tax havens last year?! Not too bad.
Still, he managed to vote by proxy when there was a division in the commons..........so that's ok then and I'm suree his constituents are delighted.
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I’m not over-excited about it. At the time KS was not in a position to influence the award of government contracts or whatever and it sounds as though he’d still have been left with enough time to carry out his other duties. If he didn’t his constituents could have kicked him out.I like neeps wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:18 amIt does matter that Starmer wanted a second job. How does Starmer have any legitimacy to attack them for something he wanted to do? "Well I'm not as bad" isn't a justification. "With labour in power we'll have the right second jobs!". Okay.robmatic wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:14 amThe Tories are getting nicely embroiled in a corruption scandal and Jeremy Corbyn's speechwriter decides that it's a good idea to get Labour in on the action.
It's a real mystery why we have a Tory government.
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So what is the problem with him deciding not to take a second job?GogLais wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 4:47 pmI’m not over-excited about it. At the time KS was not in a position to influence the award of government contracts or whatever and it sounds as though he’d still have been left with enough time to carry out his other duties. If he didn’t his constituents could have kicked him out.I like neeps wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:18 amIt does matter that Starmer wanted a second job. How does Starmer have any legitimacy to attack them for something he wanted to do? "Well I'm not as bad" isn't a justification. "With labour in power we'll have the right second jobs!". Okay.robmatic wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:14 am
The Tories are getting nicely embroiled in a corruption scandal and Jeremy Corbyn's speechwriter decides that it's a good idea to get Labour in on the action.
It's a real mystery why we have a Tory government.
I’m not saying there’s a problem either way.not_english wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 6:13 pmSo what is the problem with him deciding not to take a second job?GogLais wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 4:47 pmI’m not over-excited about it. At the time KS was not in a position to influence the award of government contracts or whatever and it sounds as though he’d still have been left with enough time to carry out his other duties. If he didn’t his constituents could have kicked him out.I like neeps wrote: Fri Nov 12, 2021 9:18 am
It does matter that Starmer wanted a second job. How does Starmer have any legitimacy to attack them for something he wanted to do? "Well I'm not as bad" isn't a justification. "With labour in power we'll have the right second jobs!". Okay.
Totally agree, consultancy = offload cash for favours.JM2K6 wrote: Mon Nov 08, 2021 9:12 am It's not an insane position to hold. Career politicians bring their own problems. Having MPs all be in other jobs is fine and helps ground people. Consultancy isn't a fucking job though
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In a revelation that I'm sure will shock everyone; JRM has been shown to have filed an inaccurate, & incomplete list of interests.
But then; what business is it of the proles, if he gets interest free, directors loans, to the tune of a piddling 6 million ?
But then; what business is it of the proles, if he gets interest free, directors loans, to the tune of a piddling 6 million ?
Wasn't he the one claiming expenses to heat his stables?
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BINGO. Another shit showSaintK wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:32 amParticularly as the Government are about to cancel two of the extensions to the North and North East due to rising costs. So much for the Northern Powerhouse and a joined up rail network!!!Slick wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:17 amI dunno. Northern infrastructure certainly needs improving but I'm still not sure how shaving a few minutes off the journey time is going to have much of an impact. It seems even less important now that we all use Zoom etc.Paddington Bear wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:14 am
I'm a supporter of the project as I strongly believe it's crucial to improving northern infrastructure and the productivity boost that gives all of us. It is however a complete pain in the arse as it's being built (the Chilterns tunnel starts near me) and of course the benefits are tangential at best to this area.
I remain hopeful that with a bit of thought and effort things like the Colne/Wendover viaducts will in time be regarded as modern Ribbleheads/Glenfinnans but we shall see. Right now it all looks horrendous.
All the money you made will never buy back your soul
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When will the pending By-Elections be held ?
I know that one is set to be uncontested; but the others will surely be taken as proper polls of the Bumblecunts performance; & the Corruption revelations; so Tory MPs will all surely be keenly watching any swings; & trying to map them to their own Constituencies.
If they're going to dump him; or persuade him to go for, "Health Reasons", or to "Spend more time with other men's Wives"; they don't have long to do so.
I know that one is set to be uncontested; but the others will surely be taken as proper polls of the Bumblecunts performance; & the Corruption revelations; so Tory MPs will all surely be keenly watching any swings; & trying to map them to their own Constituencies.
If they're going to dump him; or persuade him to go for, "Health Reasons", or to "Spend more time with other men's Wives"; they don't have long to do so.
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It sounds like; as we suspected; that the line of attack is against those listed as; "Consultants".
The problem is; of course; that water; & corruption seeks the lowest point. So last year Grayling got 100k for being a consultant; next year he gets 110k for delivering 4x motivational speeches to company employees.
Nothing changes !
You can't even link the money, to an output; because IDS & the Bumblecunt; can still pull in the corrupt money by spending 1hr a week to belch out an article for the, Daily Heil, or the Torygraph (or just have them ghost written).
The default position has to be that an MP can serve only one master; & if they want to do a second job; they need to enter a serious justification as to why the should be allowed to; & how it can never end up as a conflict of interest.
https://www.ft.com/content/ec3b884d-4c0 ... 1c6b932650The FT wrote: Senior Conservatives in the UK are prepared to back a ban on outside consultancy work by MPs to stanch accusations of sleaze in a move that Cabinet ministers said could lead to a clear out of older long-serving Tory backbenchers.
The House of Commons on Monday evening is expected to endorse the original parliamentary standards report into disgraced Tory Owen Paterson, the former minister who was found to have breached rules over paid advocacy. Prime minister Boris Johnson’s botched attempt to reform the standards regime to protect Paterson, sparked an uproar over MPs’ outside interests and led to accusations of sleaze.
The parliamentary standards committee, led by Labour MP Chris Bryant, is now examining whether the regime allowing parliamentarians to have second jobs and outside interests should be reformed. The committee’s report is expected to be published by the end of the month.
The committee is expected to focus on whether MPs should be banned from taking on additional roles as political or parliamentary consultants.
According to figures from the register of MPs’ interests, at least 30 have recorded earnings from consultancy work.
One senior Cabinet minister said banning consultancy roles was “attractive” because it would “remove the lobbying risk”. But they warned it would lead to many older Tory MPs quitting parliament.
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“There’s definitely scope to draw a clear line on policy consultancy which inevitably creates a conflict, as long as its clear that it’s specific to potential conflicts like that, and not about public service or unconnected outside experience that adds value to policymaking,” one Tory said.
The government’s anti-corruption watchdog, the Committee on Standards in Public Life, recommended in 2018 that MPs should “not undertake outside employment as a parliamentary strategist, adviser or consultant”. It concluded that such roles “can lead to MPs having a privileged relationship with one organisation, and therefore bring undue influence to bear on parliament”.
The problem is; of course; that water; & corruption seeks the lowest point. So last year Grayling got 100k for being a consultant; next year he gets 110k for delivering 4x motivational speeches to company employees.
Nothing changes !
You can't even link the money, to an output; because IDS & the Bumblecunt; can still pull in the corrupt money by spending 1hr a week to belch out an article for the, Daily Heil, or the Torygraph (or just have them ghost written).
The default position has to be that an MP can serve only one master; & if they want to do a second job; they need to enter a serious justification as to why the should be allowed to; & how it can never end up as a conflict of interest.
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Torys have tolerated, & encouraged this shitstain of an MP for years; so it's good enough for them to now have him fuck them up.
Boris Johnson’s attempt to draw a line under the sleaze scandal engulfing the Conservative party fell apart after a Tory MP blocked parliament endorsing a report that found a former colleague committed an egregious breach of lobbying rules.
The backbencher Christopher Chope was named by multiple sources as the person who objected to ratifying the findings about Owen Paterson’s behaviour which followed a two-year investigation by the Commons standards watchdog.
The government had tried to shunt the vote to the end of the day but put forward a motion that only one MP needed to object to in order for it to fail. In a deeply embarrassing move for the prime minister, one Tory cried out “object” late on Monday night – prolonging the resolution of the issue that has prompted some MPs to warn tensions are “frighteningly high” within the Conservative party.
Chris Bryant, a Labour MP and chair of the standards committee, said he had been assured the motion would be retabled on Tuesday with a one-hour debate to try again to endorse the Paterson report. Chope was contacted for comment.
Fury from Tories exploded at the issue being prolonged, with a minister telling the Guardian: “He has been for many year a Jurassic embarrassment – tonight he crossed a line. The man should retire and the executive are livid. If he comes into the team room tomorrow, colleagues would want to say two words to him and the second word would be ‘off’.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ach-report
They didn't de-select the prick when he blocked the smooth passage of the upskirting bill; or any of a hundred other votes; so fuck 'em !
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Killing the bit of HS2 that actually made the business case work and well after we've sunk huge costs in anyway. Nothing new being announced, electrification of the Midlands Line announced again before they cancel it again. Spineless politics and Treasury brain on steroids as ever.Slick wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:36 pmBINGO. Another shit showSaintK wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:32 amParticularly as the Government are about to cancel two of the extensions to the North and North East due to rising costs. So much for the Northern Powerhouse and a joined up rail network!!!Slick wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:17 am
I dunno. Northern infrastructure certainly needs improving but I'm still not sure how shaving a few minutes off the journey time is going to have much of an impact. It seems even less important now that we all use Zoom etc.
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages, What feats he did that day
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“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”
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Ahh. Now we know why Liz II is at deaths door
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Oliver Dowden here claiming the process of appointing Dacre at Ofcom isn't corrupt because Dacre didn't get the job. So it becomes corrupt when he does? Good one, Oli!
He represents Christchurch on the South Coast. Tories could put up a goat for election there and it would get a 25,000 majorityfishfoodie wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 11:57 pm![]()
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Torys have tolerated, & encouraged this shitstain of an MP for years; so it's good enough for them to now have him fuck them up.
Boris Johnson’s attempt to draw a line under the sleaze scandal engulfing the Conservative party fell apart after a Tory MP blocked parliament endorsing a report that found a former colleague committed an egregious breach of lobbying rules.
The backbencher Christopher Chope was named by multiple sources as the person who objected to ratifying the findings about Owen Paterson’s behaviour which followed a two-year investigation by the Commons standards watchdog.
The government had tried to shunt the vote to the end of the day but put forward a motion that only one MP needed to object to in order for it to fail. In a deeply embarrassing move for the prime minister, one Tory cried out “object” late on Monday night – prolonging the resolution of the issue that has prompted some MPs to warn tensions are “frighteningly high” within the Conservative party.
Chris Bryant, a Labour MP and chair of the standards committee, said he had been assured the motion would be retabled on Tuesday with a one-hour debate to try again to endorse the Paterson report. Chope was contacted for comment.
Fury from Tories exploded at the issue being prolonged, with a minister telling the Guardian: “He has been for many year a Jurassic embarrassment – tonight he crossed a line. The man should retire and the executive are livid. If he comes into the team room tomorrow, colleagues would want to say two words to him and the second word would be ‘off’.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ach-report
They didn't de-select the prick when he blocked the smooth passage of the upskirting bill; or any of a hundred other votes; so fuck 'em !
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It'll be the ideal constituency for the goat in #10 to move to; so he doesn't have to worry about a backlash over a new runway at Heathrow, & sundry other issues.SaintK wrote: Tue Nov 16, 2021 9:35 amHe represents Christchurch on the South Coast. Tories could put up a goat for election there and it would get a 25,000 majorityfishfoodie wrote: Mon Nov 15, 2021 11:57 pm![]()
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Torys have tolerated, & encouraged this shitstain of an MP for years; so it's good enough for them to now have him fuck them up.
Boris Johnson’s attempt to draw a line under the sleaze scandal engulfing the Conservative party fell apart after a Tory MP blocked parliament endorsing a report that found a former colleague committed an egregious breach of lobbying rules.
The backbencher Christopher Chope was named by multiple sources as the person who objected to ratifying the findings about Owen Paterson’s behaviour which followed a two-year investigation by the Commons standards watchdog.
The government had tried to shunt the vote to the end of the day but put forward a motion that only one MP needed to object to in order for it to fail. In a deeply embarrassing move for the prime minister, one Tory cried out “object” late on Monday night – prolonging the resolution of the issue that has prompted some MPs to warn tensions are “frighteningly high” within the Conservative party.
Chris Bryant, a Labour MP and chair of the standards committee, said he had been assured the motion would be retabled on Tuesday with a one-hour debate to try again to endorse the Paterson report. Chope was contacted for comment.
Fury from Tories exploded at the issue being prolonged, with a minister telling the Guardian: “He has been for many year a Jurassic embarrassment – tonight he crossed a line. The man should retire and the executive are livid. If he comes into the team room tomorrow, colleagues would want to say two words to him and the second word would be ‘off’.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ach-report
They didn't de-select the prick when he blocked the smooth passage of the upskirting bill; or any of a hundred other votes; so fuck 'em !
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Torys have tolerated, & encouraged this shitstain of an MP for years; so it's good enough for them to now have him fuck them up.
Boris Johnson’s attempt to draw a line under the sleaze scandal engulfing the Conservative party fell apart after a Tory MP blocked parliament endorsing a report that found a former colleague committed an egregious breach of lobbying rules.
The backbencher Christopher Chope was named by multiple sources as the person who objected to ratifying the findings about Owen Paterson’s behaviour which followed a two-year investigation by the Commons standards watchdog.
The government had tried to shunt the vote to the end of the day but put forward a motion that only one MP needed to object to in order for it to fail. In a deeply embarrassing move for the prime minister, one Tory cried out “object” late on Monday night – prolonging the resolution of the issue that has prompted some MPs to warn tensions are “frighteningly high” within the Conservative party.
Chris Bryant, a Labour MP and chair of the standards committee, said he had been assured the motion would be retabled on Tuesday with a one-hour debate to try again to endorse the Paterson report. Chope was contacted for comment.
Fury from Tories exploded at the issue being prolonged, with a minister telling the Guardian: “He has been for many year a Jurassic embarrassment – tonight he crossed a line. The man should retire and the executive are livid. If he comes into the team room tomorrow, colleagues would want to say two words to him and the second word would be ‘off’.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ach-report
They didn't de-select the prick when he blocked the smooth passage of the upskirting bill; or any of a hundred other votes; so fuck 'em !
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... nsons-homeSaintK wrote: Tue Nov 16, 2021 10:04 am Though not sure the PM has ever been a wifebeater like his father
Police were called to the home of Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, in the early hours of Friday morning after neighbours heard a loud altercation involving screaming, shouting and banging.
“Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.”