What’s the point of a ‘review’ of the Greensill Scandal that can’t actually effect change?
George Eustice has a record of defending the indefensible: he also believes children should starve during the holidays, asylum seekers should drown and people should die of Covid-19 rather than let the economy be harmed.
After the Greensill Scandal brought to light a mountain of evidence showing corruption at the highest level of government, Boris Johnson announced a ‘review’ – that won’t have power to change anything.
Environment Secretary George Eustace admitted the review will be utterly pointless:
Mr Eustice told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge: “This review doesn’t need enforcement powers as such, it just needs to get to the bottom of what happened.”
Asked if the government would act on any recommendations from the report, Mr Eustice said there probably wouldn’t be any.
He said: “I don’t think the review’s going to make any policy recommendations.”
Asked what the point of the review was, when it has no powers and won’t make any recommendations, he said: “People are raising questions about what happened in this particular instance around [failed bank represented by David Cameron] Greensill…The purpose of the review is to answer those questions, not prescribe policy.”
In other words, it seems the aim is to make up a plausible fairy story that the Tories think we’ll accept.
That’s about as reassuring as “Ministers ‘will look at’ ideas for new lobbying rules”.
Maybe they will. They’ll look at the ideas and then they’ll file them in a litter bin.
The review will undoubtedly find that Cameron’s activities were entirely legal and conformed to the rules – intentionally avoiding the point.
The point is that the rules are intentionally corrupt. They were devised by David Cameron to allow him to do – legally – what he did.
And they also allow any other Tory to take advantage of them in the same way.
That is the reason no member of the current Tory government is going to lift a finger to change them.
Source: Minister admits Boris Johnson’s ‘review’ of lobbying scandal will have no powers – Mirror Online
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‘Mr Eustice told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge: “This review doesn’t need enforcement powers as such, it just needs to get to the bottom of what happened.”
Asked if the government would act on any recommendations from the report, Mr Eustice said there probably wouldn’t be any.
He said: “I don’t think the review’s going to make any policy recommendations.”
Asked what the point of the review was, when it has no powers and won’t make any recommendations, he said: “People are raising questions about what happened in this particular instance around [failed bank represented by David Cameron] Greensill…The purpose of the review is to answer those questions, not prescribe policy.”
Succinct translation for us peasants – the fascist tories are lying as usual and yes they do hold us all in contempt!! They know we are so stupid and gullible we still believe we live in a democracy not a corrupt fascist one party state wherein the fascist tories are becoming multi billionaires and laws only apply to us peasants!
This says everything you need to know about the Tory scum. Have a scandal come up with some nice sounding review then you find out it will do nothing say nothing because they don’t want to change the system? They just want to profit from it the same as he did. So it’s to make them better thieves!!!
So we won’t find out about their disgusting money-grabbing games played out behind locked doors…
If you voted Tory then I can only conclude you’re happy to have Torys steal from you and the country? You keep on voting for them despite knowing they all act like this once in parliament!