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Old 04-11-2021, 18:17   #55
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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up

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Originally Posted by Paul View Post
What 'direction' is that ?

They screwed this one up badly, but I dont see how that indicates a direction of anything.
Lowering the threshold for standards in public life, essentially normalising and permitting what would reasonably be described as corruption in any civilised democracy.

250 of them didn’t walk down the division lobby approving of something more appropriate to a banana republic by accident.

Kwasi Kwarteng summed it up when pressed on standards when interviewed “we delivered Brexit.”

It’s the division that, for some, will give them a free pass.

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