Tory minister caught leaking document to Wonga whitewashes his part in sponsorship deal from his website
Guilty conscience, is it?
A Tory minister has scrubbed evidence of a deal he brokered between Wonga and his local football team from his website after he was caught leaking a sensitive committee report on pay-day-lenders to the company.
Justin Tomlinson MP, who was a member of the Public Accounts Committee in 2013, said his “judgement had been clouded” when he passed the confidential report about regulating consumer credit to controversial lenders.
He brokered a deal worth £30,000 for Wonga to sponsor his local football team, and accepted donations of £30,218 from the club’s chairman since 2014.
There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing and the chairman, Jez Webb, said the similarity in the amounts is coincidental.
But Mr Tomlinson has now deleted references to Wonga from the article about the sponsorship deal on his website.
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“RAT”
Hmmm sounds like another grant shnapps
Look at that smug, smirking phizzog – eminently brickable. A real snake in the grass, corrupt to the core,
Another one caught bang to rights…..but hey he’s a fine Tory, who has a history of total integrity and knowledge of what is right and what is wrong because he was once a member of a Public Accounts Committee. How many more of these morons must we suffer who really think the world owes them and they owe nothing to representing the
honest face of politics. Out, out, out……
Again!, this calls for police action. This man has a vested interest in collusion.
So easy to be a scoundrel when you are politician.
You’re too polite There are many better words but they wouldn’t get past the moderator………
You are absolutely correct.
Apparently, you can’t reach the top in the Tory party if you aren’t one.
Dear oh Dear, the curse of the Minister for (against) the disabled strikes again, how many is that IDS has got through in the last 5 years.
Many.