Tory cronyism: Johnson appoints Bullingdon chum to ethics committee. Contradiction?
Two-fingered salute:: Boris Johnson’s answer to those of us who accuse him of cronyism.
We point out their corruption by taking them to court for giving cash to their cronies, and the Tories simply shrug and do it again.
Boris Johnson has appointed a former Bullingdon Club colleague, Ewen Fergusson, to sit on Whitehall’s “sleaze” watchdog – the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
Is this so his friend can rubber-stamp all Johnson’s own offences as being well within reasonable standards of behaviour?
Questions have already been raised about the appointment, which was approved by Johnson, as you can read in this Guardian article.
And the reaction outside the Tory bubble has been… as one might expect:
Boris Johnson has appointed his Bullingdon University chum to the Committee that is supposed to advise on ethics & proper conduct in public life.
What an utter joke.
This Prime Minister doesn’t even care enough to hide his blatant cronyism – he treats the public with contempt. pic.twitter.com/Afglg8eg8j
— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) July 16, 2021
chumocracy update: https://t.co/d8rX6MPlGj
— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) July 16, 2021
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Pigs stuffing themselves from the same trough