Yeh this is all well known stuff in the UK if you read and follow politics. There's a large number of right wing (despite being in either a left or right party) elite group that control, coerce and plot together to get people off the hook. The system is corrupt, has been for a long time. Career politicians are rewarded for staying quiet or giving false stories. The BBC is now right-wing controlled Tory centric bias so will push any story against the opposition to maintain control of the elite establishment so stories are not correctly reported on as always have a spin and agenda bias. You can write books on the corruption, its all there, it gets reported on. But done so in such ways that the masses are conditioned to thinking its ok, or it is normalized and just accepted thats corruption is the status quo. Ask one British person is UK politics corrupt, 90% will say yes. Its accepted and right now in UK media the focus is on demonizing Corbyn who is literally the only party leader who has ever shown a slight bit of hope for removing this corruption in the UK and has a massive movement of people who never used to be into politics or joined a party, quite like what the qAnon movement is doing, he is waking people up to the surface corruption and getting them politically aware. I feel hopeful.
UK govt. is so corrupt. Didn't know this one, a probe into Vaz because of the rent boy scandal was suspended because of his 'ill health'. Meanwhile he was on trips to India and Saudi Arabia, still an MP, and out and active in London. Finally there was a new Commissioner of Standards and the probe was back on:
Reminds me of the child abuse prosecution of Vaz's associate Lord Greville Janner, which was called off because of Janner's alleged dementia, even though up until then he was active in the House of Lords. After public outcry it was to resume, but then Janner died. Looks like Vaz helped kill a probe into child abuse allegations about Janner back in the 90's:
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cantfindmenow ago
Yeh this is all well known stuff in the UK if you read and follow politics. There's a large number of right wing (despite being in either a left or right party) elite group that control, coerce and plot together to get people off the hook. The system is corrupt, has been for a long time. Career politicians are rewarded for staying quiet or giving false stories. The BBC is now right-wing controlled Tory centric bias so will push any story against the opposition to maintain control of the elite establishment so stories are not correctly reported on as always have a spin and agenda bias. You can write books on the corruption, its all there, it gets reported on. But done so in such ways that the masses are conditioned to thinking its ok, or it is normalized and just accepted thats corruption is the status quo. Ask one British person is UK politics corrupt, 90% will say yes. Its accepted and right now in UK media the focus is on demonizing Corbyn who is literally the only party leader who has ever shown a slight bit of hope for removing this corruption in the UK and has a massive movement of people who never used to be into politics or joined a party, quite like what the qAnon movement is doing, he is waking people up to the surface corruption and getting them politically aware. I feel hopeful.
sore_ass_losers ago
UK govt. is so corrupt. Didn't know this one, a probe into Vaz because of the rent boy scandal was suspended because of his 'ill health'. Meanwhile he was on trips to India and Saudi Arabia, still an MP, and out and active in London. Finally there was a new Commissioner of Standards and the probe was back on:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5867154/rent-boy-probe-into-shamed-keith-vaz-is-back-on-after-being-delayed-for-medical-reasons/
Reminds me of the child abuse prosecution of Vaz's associate Lord Greville Janner, which was called off because of Janner's alleged dementia, even though up until then he was active in the House of Lords. After public outcry it was to resume, but then Janner died. Looks like Vaz helped kill a probe into child abuse allegations about Janner back in the 90's:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/25/keith-vaz-helped-kill-90s-probe-greville-janner-claims-why-is-vaz-silent-now