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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
For sure. 
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Did this type of heads-in-the-trough sleaze and lying to the Speaker happen in governments like Blair's and Thatcher's and just passed me by?
It seems quite overwhelming to me at the moment but am I just especially aware of it more as we have the Internet? |
Well there was the expenses scandal which was rife during the Blair government - pretty sleazy as far as I'm concerned. The Westland affair may not have been particularly sleazy but it showed some of the Thatcher government in a different light.
Have a read about
John Poulson, he seemed up to his neck in good old cross-party sleaze in the 1950's & 60's.
So I think it's been going on for years in one form or another, it just easier and quicker to get revenge these days.