Very. It’s always been a very high level corruption; tax avoidance peerages etc. But in Boris Johnson’s rancid government it’s old school corruption, government contracts for friends, in the case of Jennifer Arcuri, sex for government cash.
If you put a lying, amoral, thieving, entitled sociopath in the top position, it’s no wonder the rest of the pigs stick their snouts in the trough. At the least, he’s a corrupt thief. At worst, he’s a corrupt thief responsible for 100,000 deaths that could have been prevented by good governance.
He’s a cunt.
The idea that British politics is dominated by a corrupt and incestuous elite should surprise few, I don’t see it as a Boris Johnson issue but rather a systemic/cultural one.
One thing that I find funny is when some people I know get kind of nostalgic for c. 1995-2005 as a golden age for competent and clean politics free of sleaze or corruption when any serious look back might undermine this narrative.
Apparently not very in the global ranks. Not that far behind the Nordic countries in being the least corrupt.
There has always been corruption and many of the issues now being discussed have been going on for a while and were seemingly common knowledge. Less influential media outlets have been reporting on this stuff for some time.
All that’s changed is the current UK government is openly corrupt and then thought it would be clever to try and publicly remove what little accountability there is whilst threatening their own MP’s if they didn’t go along with it.
Not very according to the post next to this.
Move along.
Not quite as corrupt as some. That’s for sure.
Well most of the world’s tax haven are linked to the british crown… (Caribbean Gibraltar, channel islands….)
If I had to guess I’d say it’s about the 37th most corrupt country in Europe
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Very at high level (MP, government). Inexistent for anyone dealing with government services.
One of the very least corrupt countries in the world.
From doggy Dave to doggy Boris.
“That’s a brilliant question, Mark. I’d said that at the ministerial level, our current administration had some great successes in establishing a great and effective modus of action in operating of the government institutions and the like.”
My experience at Cambridge was that other students were much better connected socially/politically than I would have expected. I think that Anglo countries in general have a soft kind of corruption, where money and status buys more than it does in some comparable first world countries.
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Very. It’s always been a very high level corruption; tax avoidance peerages etc. But in Boris Johnson’s rancid government it’s old school corruption, government contracts for friends, in the case of Jennifer Arcuri, sex for government cash.
If you put a lying, amoral, thieving, entitled sociopath in the top position, it’s no wonder the rest of the pigs stick their snouts in the trough. At the least, he’s a corrupt thief. At worst, he’s a corrupt thief responsible for 100,000 deaths that could have been prevented by good governance.
He’s a cunt.
The idea that British politics is dominated by a corrupt and incestuous elite should surprise few, I don’t see it as a Boris Johnson issue but rather a systemic/cultural one.
One thing that I find funny is when some people I know get kind of nostalgic for c. 1995-2005 as a golden age for competent and clean politics free of sleaze or corruption when any serious look back might undermine this narrative.
The [irony](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/qrgok4/_/)
Apparently not very in the global ranks. Not that far behind the Nordic countries in being the least corrupt.
There has always been corruption and many of the issues now being discussed have been going on for a while and were seemingly common knowledge. Less influential media outlets have been reporting on this stuff for some time.
All that’s changed is the current UK government is openly corrupt and then thought it would be clever to try and publicly remove what little accountability there is whilst threatening their own MP’s if they didn’t go along with it.
Not very according to the post next to this.
Move along.
Not quite as corrupt as some. That’s for sure.
Well most of the world’s tax haven are linked to the british crown… (Caribbean Gibraltar, channel islands….)
If I had to guess I’d say it’s about the 37th most corrupt country in Europe
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Very at high level (MP, government). Inexistent for anyone dealing with government services.
One of the very least corrupt countries in the world.
From doggy Dave to doggy Boris.
“That’s a brilliant question, Mark. I’d said that at the ministerial level, our current administration had some great successes in establishing a great and effective modus of action in operating of the government institutions and the like.”
tl;dr: let someone better explain it here:
https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-uk-lobbying-row-shameful-john-major/
My experience at Cambridge was that other students were much better connected socially/politically than I would have expected. I think that Anglo countries in general have a soft kind of corruption, where money and status buys more than it does in some comparable first world countries.
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