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Denzil_DC

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13. "The exact same thing", you say?
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 08:52 AM
Mar 2018


As a Privy Councillor and Leader of the Opposition, I see no excuse for excluding Corbyn from briefings. If the fear is he'd spill beans, I think the Russians may know what's going on already. If he then asks inconvenient questions, who's to blame him?

And the point isn't that the SNP are squeaky clean (though comparatively speaking, they are - Salmond's not even an elected official at this stage, unlike the many from other parties who've been happy to appear on RT, his show is independently produced, and Sturgeon's been taking a lot of heat from some quarters for her support of May), it's that the Tories, in this neck of the woods anyway, have somehow been taboo to criticize while only too ready to point the finger.

For instance, I haven't seen any of the other parties blatantly take cash from Russians in return for access (£160,000 to play tennis with Boris, £30,000 for dinner with Ruth Davidson, likewise for Williamson ... that's a lot of cash to splash just for a bit of "fun" ).

Time was when that was frowned upon - or even a resigning matter - whatever the nationality. It's given rise to absurd situations that go way beyond hypocrisy:





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