Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind cash for access SCANDAL..

Has this ever happened before?

Only goes on in banana republics surely?

I'm only surprised it was the Telegraph that did the sting..

There is no longer a left or right that is why Syrizia got in Spain next
then Portugal

Dispatches (CH4) involved as well... That's more like it..

They're all in it together

tragic re Jack

Money has too much value, everything gets screwed..That's why its all going tits up .Bankers and Footballers
getting Lottery figure Salaries, Conservatives saying we are all in it together. The System is shattered..

No doubt they did nothing outside of what the rules allow,
anyway Mr Straw should be in The Hague on trial for complicity
in the invasion of Iraq war crime.

Who decided it was a crime?

Breeding that's right. Straw £5000 for a speech while the people he represents (Blackburn )eat beans on toast from foodbanks. Something more than voting is needed in this country.

£5000 per day....I thought we all made that here !

Rifkind is a Grade A khoont of the first order

Always has been, always will be.

and very close to Leon Brittain

just saying

Malcolm Rifkind so defiant he has done nothing wrong.  And Straw was a man hopelessly out of his depth, and also trying to say he has done nothing wrong here, but fell for it hook, line and sinker !  All summed up in one word GREED.

well they did say the 90's were making a comeback

Interesting that Mr Straw seemed to think a seat In the House of Lords
after the election was a sure thing. Of course £300 a day there is
chickenfeed for a man who charges £5k a day.

according to the news they were both told they were going to the Lords

So they are getting free hospitality at the cricket too

three crackers from crisp77 in a matter of seconds...

anybody with a tv would have answered this woman with who do you work for the telegraph or the guardian,the fact it didnt even crossed the mind of these 2 greedy cooonts that they were been set up ,must only mean they are at it all the time,hence why they were targeted

you could be right there

they sent letters to 12 likely mps with 'extensive outside interests' and most dodged it. Just shows how stupid these pair are, didnt even do cursory checks

and you wonder why the chilcott enquiry has been delayed till after the election

anything to avoid giving ammunition to greens and ukip

the whole political edifice is corrupt, not just one or two of them!!!

Big problem here, they can't do the usual "it's them not us gov" (although the bigots will try to show that "they are more guilty than us")

Both are claiming they did nowt wrong and the presenter on ITV news says they've not broken any rules.
I'm confused, what are the issues here? Mind you Jonathan Aitken pleaded his case nicely.

If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play, so be it. I am ready for the fight. The fight against falsehood and those who peddle it. My fight begins today. Thank you and good afternoon.

The simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play. You gotta love that.

Straw saying solution is more mps pay

For probably the one and only time I agree with Milliband:

He's calling for a ban on any kind of freelancing by MPs.

My MP has 3 additional consultancies/directorships as well as his MP's salary.

Scandalous.

A lot of these tw@ts sit on the boards of banks, and other institutional thievery's..

punter-how much to asked 3 questions?
MP-15grand
punter-is that not a bit excessive?
MP-NO,now whats your 3rd question............

All this on the day the min wage went up 30p an hour.Sure put the £5k a day into perspective greedy bar stewards

there not the best and brightest people as we are told ,there people elected by their constituents could quite easily be the worst people for the job in some cases,theres 1000,s out there willing to do the job in most casrs do it better for 70 grand so why do they need to be paid more,theres no market forces in play just a closed shop

Is this the same Rifkind that has been alleged, in the alternative media, to be a paedo, like his mate Leon Britain.

Dead in 6 months..nap

Straw is to take job with firm he lobbied for in Commons..

Der Jude Rifkind.

Rifkind gone

some sort of sick joke how they refer to each other as honourable members when large numbers of politicians are as dishonest as the day is long

your average man in the street wouldn't dream of pulling the sort of strokes or other ways of pilfering the public purse than mps seems to think they are entitled to

did they get to be chairman or board room johnnies of companies that were sold by their governments. i remember that happening a lot from Thatcher's time. sell british gas and end up as chairman? Tony Blair's pretty rich, i wonder how? book deals?

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