Sir Gus O’Donnell, the current Cabinet Secretary, the highest rank in the British Civil Service, has today completed his exhaustive and painstakingly thorough investigation into the misdeeds of Liam Fox (former Minister of Defence) and his friend Adam Werrity. He has made some tough recommendations for the Prime Minister. Well, no he didn’t…
Sir Gosh O’DontAskMeDifficultQuestionsPleaseImAbout ToRetire
This is what Liam Fox did and got away with
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!
Sir Gus O’Donnell’s essay is linked to below
His conclusion was that they were both werry werry naughty boys indeed and said that in future we must make the rules (about what Ministers of the Realm can and cannot do on their holidays) much clearer for them to read and understand (ah bless…)
His ruthless questioning of Mr Werrity will leave us all gasping at his ruthless desire to cover up the truth.
So then, another smarmy self serving, corrupt politician is let off the hook to resurface in a few months time.
In Prime Minister’s Questions today the opposition leader, the Right Honourable Eddie Millibean, couldn’t even score a point against this crass self serving corruption.
Isn’t party politics so good for us all?
The sound of gentle weeping etc.