Balance?

Dozens of MPs fiddled their expenses - in all parties. A number of MPs across parties have perverted the course of justice (several around driving offences) and a lot of MPs have relatives who have been arrested for assault!

None of that 'balances' out the issue at the heart of this thread. If you ignore the public sector procurement rules, hand out massive contracts to your mates without ensuring they are competent to deliver, cut corners with the PPE specifications.... etc etc you end up with a corruption scandal and a massive waste of public money. There may be examples of that from other parties at other times (although I doubt it in recent history) but what you have offered up is not that!