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It is not incompetence. There is nothing this government (That is Sunak, Truss or Johnson) has done that has not facilitated a backhander somewhere. The Tories are on nothing more than a heist. They know they have been over-egging the thieving, and people are wise to them. Now it is only about as much as they can get before the gravy train ends.
Sunak's family took a £1b contract weeks before giving out a 100 licenses to fossil fuel companies for researching new sources of oil. And now Sunak wants to grab a trade deal with India, where strangely his family has very close ties. Sunak is grabbing what ever he can. As soon as he looses at the next GE, he will grab his green card again, and spend this cash in the USA.
I sometimes wonder if there isn’t an element of doing things this way with the knowledge and expectation that others will expend energy and resources challenging it; win or lose, it might just prove to be an effective, devious and deliberate tactic for wearing people down.
Governments definitely do not want people chasing them for corruption. This was the downfall of John Major with the sleaze around cash for questions. Sleaze is a line Labour have thrown at the Tories ever since just to remind them of the cause of their worst ever defeat to date.
This current lot bat the sleaze comments away by gaslighting the public that it could not possibly be true. The only time they ever react is when it looks like they cannot hide and it is going to cost them votes. Owen Patterson being the most prominent case on that one. I suppose there is an element of this with Nadine Dorries as well. Grifting as an MP is sort of akin to stealing MPs wages while doing naff all.
There are plenty of dishonest MPs, but not so many that are well known. The Tory press hound any opposition aggressively and hide away from their own failings. Michelle Mone's total absence with press coverage or police charges versus the response given to Nicola Sturgeon being yet another case in point.