“Foxy was a werry naughty boy” (not too tough I hope Dave?)

Update January 2025: I originally posted this in 2011 which was about ministerial corruption in government. This ‘news’ was the story that started me writing this blog.

I have been researching and writing about  party politics and the dangers of faith schools and religion ever since.

This is my post from 2011:-

Meanwhile, and in an alternate reality (the one you and I live in) somebody wrote “Today, a soon to retire, civil servant wrote an essay that had no spelling mistakes, no, not even one.

This incredible achievement means that Sir Gosh O’DontAskMeDifficultQuestionsPleaseImAbout ToRetire, will end his career with a composition of 2,737 words all about what SnottyFoxy did on his holidays with his chum Adamawaddamy Werrity.

Now look here all you who might sneer at this work. It must have taken him at least 2 or 3 hours to write up AND with no spelling mistakes, unlike the mistakes that Foxy made (Oh, and he’s very, very sorry that he made the same mistake 42 times by the way…)”

Over a 17-month period, ending October 2011, Adam Werritty was present at 40 of Fox’s 70 recorded engagements.

Liam Fox also fiddled his expenses to the tune of £23,000, he challenged the ruling. He was overruled and had to pay the money back.

Did he have to pay a 100% penalty as you and I would if we had fiddled our tax?

No, he did not. Hence, again, ‘one rule for them and another for us.’

So, by my reckoning Fox was corrupt on so many counts that you or I would have sacked him from his position of trust as a member of Parliament. We would have cancelled his pension contributions and applied a 100% penalty to the expenses cash he fiddled. But he was just demoted and temporarily sent to the back benches.

He was still there four years later, quietly pocketing his pension and MPs salary just waiting for us all to forget. In 2014 he was allowed to start quietly making public statements of policy again for the Tory party! In 2016 he became Secretary of State for International Trade and in 2018 was a leading spokesman for pro Brexiteers in the Tory party. He is still there in 2023!