Iain Duncan Smith is rewarding corruption in the DWP
It’s true: Iain Duncan Smith has told falsehoods in order to smooth the way for his cuts to the benefit system which have taken money away from people who need it. We should not be surprised that he rewards corruption in other members of his team.
Let’s join the dots:
An MP leaked a confidential report about payday loans to a payday loan company, allowing the firm to suggest changes.
That MP is now minister for people with disabilities at the Department for Work and Pensions.
People with disabilities are more likely to take payday loans than those without them (probably due to Iain Duncan Smith’s brutality against the disabled).
There is a clear conflict of interest here. Justin Tomlinson should be sacked from his ministerial position at once, and consideration should be given to suspending him from Parliament.
But Iain Duncan Smith won’t do it because he has “full confidence” in this man.
The only conclusion possible is that Iain Duncan Smith rewards corruption.
Right?
A Conservative MP leaked a confidential report about regulating payday loans to Wonga, it has emerged.
Justin Tomlinson, who served on the Public Accounts Committee in 2013 before he was made a minister, sent a draft of the report to an employee of Wonga, who replied and suggested changes to it.
The report, released in May 2013, called for beefed up regulation of payday loan companies, including Wonga.
PAC chair Margaret Hodge at the time accused part of the payday loans industry of “disgraceful practices” and said existing rules had been ineffective.
BBC News reports that Mr Tomlinson, who is now disabilities minister at the Department for Work and Pensions, has the full confidence of Iain Duncan Smith and will not be sacked.
Research by the charity Scope has found that people with disabilities are significantly more likely to turn to payday loans than people without them.
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How long is this disgusting beast going to continue with his criminality. The Torys are a prime example of what it would be like if the Mafia ran a government. Herr Ian Duncan rhymes with shunt Shmidt should be picking up soap in a prison shower and get his bottom used as what he is doing to the poor people of this now uncivilised country. They called Gadhafi a mad dog and look what happened to him. This insidious cowardly lowlife deserves the same.
He deserves the humiliation of a public trial first along with Tomlinson, Patel, McVey etc etc..and THEN Hang the bast*rds!
I know that it’s unlikely to happen but, to borrow a phrase, I would be
absolutely “delighted” if Jeremy Corbyn addressed him as the secretary for “Perks and inventions”.
We know that he’s lied, and we know that he claims for his undercrackers amongst many other things, so why not?
I don’t understand how he is not compared more openly in the MSM for the criminal that he is.
Doesn’t surprise me at all, that’s how he’s getting away with it, do his bidding and you’ll get a nice, juicy backhander as a reward, the man is devious, detestable, villainous scum that needs to be brought down and brought to account for his actions, if there is such a thing as karma, his arse, like many of the tories, should wind up inside, for life!
more of an oversight than corruption. Not like he was cashing on
It’s a clear conflict of interest. Who knows what he expected in return?
“If I do this for you, one day I may expect you to do do favour for me in return…. You won’t refuse.”