Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
James: I don't get involved in the Punch and Judy politics on here and have never voted Labour nor Conservative. However, I cannot remember in all my years such corruption in government. You do come over as an apologist for the current emcumbents in government regardless of your wish to project even-mindedness.
I don't know whether the current UK govt is more or less corrupt than others. Power does corrupt and Covid provided fertile ground for things too so you may well be right.

But like I said, my point is that there are examples everywhere and you don't sense the ambition of these countless threads is the honourable discussion of poor MP behaviour but more an opportunity for the same people to say the same things about a party they don't like.

And if we ignore these things from other parties isn't that being an apologist.

I hope any politician that has done something wrong has the book thrown at them, but reporting anyone being investigated as being guilty and in turn implying an entire party as being guilty, whilst not holding other parties to the same standard is disingenuous in my opinion.

And I've resisted whataboutery here but people are more than capable of using Google news and typing 'Labour MP' or 'MP investigated' or 'MP jailed' to see for themselves that these things exist across a spectrum and it's fair to point that out when it seems the point of these threads is to imply otherwise.