Cameron gets tough on hypothetical sleaze

D-Cam and the blue brigade may be storming ahead in the opinion polls of late, but it isn't all summer-blue skies just yet (now, how's that for a mixed metaphor?).

Cameron is more than a little concerned about possible sleaze outbreaks among Tory representatives within the European Parliament. And so he should be - the last couple of years have been all about reinventing the Conservatives, after all, and the last thing Dave would want is a return to some early-nineties scenario where literally every Tory minister was having six affairs and in possession of eighty-five 'dormant' Swiss bank accounts. His solution, then? Any Tory MEPs caught 'breaking the rules' are to be fired immediately.

Cameron has already taken Derek Conway - he who paid his sons with public money - to task, and has had to watch in cringeworthy horror as Tory MEPs Sir Robert Atkins, Sajjad Karim and John Purvis were all revealed to have expenses-shaped skeletons in their respective closets. Very nice closets too: designer ones, paid for by taxpayer's hard-earned cash. Possibly.

Still. If general corruption and fiddling of accounts is frowned upon in parliament, surely these poor jobless MEPs could go on to acquire a major role in almost any multinational corporation? Because they're all corrupt, too, right? Right, kids? Right? Right?*

*Joke courtesy of Michael Moore.

Written by C J Davies on 10 Jun 2008 12:03 AM. Permalink