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Originally Posted by Julian

Calling out whataboutery is in no way defending the indefensible. If you understood the term you might realise that.

There are plenty of threads on this forum where people have called out whataboutery when starmer or labour are mentioned after something about the tories. I saw no village vigilante/pitchfork comment there.

For the record I have never defended anything the tories have done, I just have an aversion to blatant hypocrisy.

More or less exactamundo. As regards the Tories, my party has massively screwed up over the last 6 years and will pay the price at the GE.

But my response here is to address "whataboutery". It's an awful term that I see as the last bastion for those who have nothing of value to contribute on a specific topic or sub-topic. Talking of which, Ian doesn't seem to like anything that discredits the EU. So he has to discredit the already discredited Tories and does nothing to make the EU any better.

Was it Greeks and Italians involved in the current EU scandal? Generally from the May-22 report:

https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/...er-cases-rises

The top five Member States involved in corruption cases registered at Eurojust are Greece, Germany, Romania, Italy and Spain. Third countries also play a key role in Eurojust's corruption casework. Between 2016 and 2021, 42 third countries were involved in corruption cases.