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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Remember when we were told our standards would improve and taking back control would lead to more accountability? Where's that now as Owen Patterson is basically let off for his egregious breaking of the lobbying rules, I've said it before but the levels of corruption are shameful and more akin to a third world junta than the mother of all Parliaments, most of the current incumbents of which aren't fit to clean the chamber, let alone make decisions for the rest of us in it
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I'm sure this would have happened even if we were EU members but it makes it harder for us to hold other nations to account with such lax standards ourselves.
We know the cost of Brexit - a
4% reduction in GDP according to the Government's own figures. It's disappointing that our governance standards are decreasing as well.