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Freezin, company execs waste millions each year, just look at NTL, and do you think they get punished with their massive bonuses and pensions?
No, in the real world of course they don't get punished.
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Not the same thing. Company executives are not public servants elected and paid for by the taxpayer.
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It doesn't appear he's actually broken any rules as there weren't any written, but the comittee disagreed with how he used the money, so are making him pay it back and suspended him for 10 days.
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There is no honour left in politics if we can't trust our politicians to act with integrity
because there are no rules. (And they are only making him pay a little of it back.)
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Compare that with Hain, or those involved with other dodgy funding schemes of the government.
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I did, rotten and rancid, like I said.
From today's
Daily Telegraph:
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For years, Derek Conway has joked privately to fellow Tory MPs about "Conway Family plc" being bankrolled by the taxpayer.
But those Tory MPs who laughed loudest no longer think the joke is funny, now it has emerged that the family - and a friend of their eldest son's - have received a mighty £1.5 million since 2001.
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The rest of this scathing 3 page report, entitled "
Derek Conway's head and shoulders in the trough", is
here.