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Re: Owen Paterson: Anger as Tory MP avoids suspension in rule shake-up
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
It's a lovely theory but one that bears little resemblance to constitutional reality.
For example, Zac Goldsmith gets kicked out from his Richmond Park constituency via the ballot box. What happens next? Johnson gives him a peerage and retains him as a Minister. Goldsmith happens to provide Johnson with free holidays at his £25k-a-night family house in Spain.
So Goldsmith stays in government to become yet another unelected official we cannot evict via the ballot box.
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Johnson will probably say it wasn't a holiday, he was just house sitting for a family friend…
Johnson’s view on Parliamentary Standards*
*having been investigated three times in the last three years (more than any other MP in the same time period), and with a potential fourth investigation in the very near future…
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