Tory money scandals are rich and timely reminders
It seems the media has sated its appetite for condemning the Labour government, at least for the time being. Now the focus is on the Conservatives, with a couple of high-profile stories this past week focusing on flagrant abuses of power and privilege at the taxpayers’ expense.
First we heard about the leader of the Conservative Party’s Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) resigning from the position after admitting he broke expenses rules. Giles Chichester paid thousands of pounds in staff allowances to a firm of which he is a paid director. Remarkably, Chichester intends to stay on as an MEP and has described his supposed error as a “whoops-a-daisy” moment.
tags: Conservatives, equality, gay rights, ghettos, homophobia, hypocrisy, impropriety, money, politics, power, sleaze
