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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Paterson hasn’t been let off - at least yet!
As I understand it, the issue is the lack of a right to appeal. Isn’t that more in line with the courts, employment law requirements of employers, etc?
Why that was not already in place is difficult to fathom.
But whatever happens next, if Paterson is as guilty as hell, that’s what the finding should be.
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That's all spin for the weak-minded party faithful to lap up. Even MPs don't believe that hyperbole though they do feel understandably sorry for the popular MP in question whose wife committed suicide last year. It's just a purely political decision which lessens the checks and balances in British democracy. When one of Johnson's men was caught out by the rules, they decided to change the rules.
As Robert Shrimsley in the FT notes
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More important than any electoral consequence is that it removes another brick from the edifice of shared belief in the agreed democratic process. The British system relies on the readiness of all sides to accept the rules even when doing so is uncomfortable. One day the Tories will be in opposition again and may come to rue the precedents they are setting now.
By his actions Johnson has shown contempt for the system and swept away another check on the power of the government and its friends. It is a shameful and damaging day for British politics.
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https://www.ft.com/content/859a0859-...a-8e22131eab97