Degsy and Anderson charged with bribery

[shed driver]

Shenanigans at Liverpool council.
BBC News - Liverpool's Joe Anderson and Derek Hatton charged with bribery - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17qn4ng0gko

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[simon_harris]

People wonder why councils are so bad with money? This is why.

[anonymoususer]

Degsy the man of the people.
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[Rusty Old-Banger]

Grubby, grubby Labour.

[Lotobear]

Socialists in Govt/local Govt just can't seem to keep their snouts out of the trough, the tradition goes way back to T Dan Smith

[StevieBee]

That's quite the roll-call of miscreants!

Proof that whilst corruption happens in the UK, it's very difficult to get away with it.

It will be interesting to see what happens to the companies that did the corrupting. All the attention is on the public officers but the companies will - or should - be facing equally tough penalties not least of which is being excluded from any future public-sector tender or contract which may well be a business-ending situation for them. Directors could even face jail time.

[KAgantua]

Bit of GBH

[speedyman]

Lotobear said:

Socialists in Govt/local Govt just can't seem to keep their snouts out of the trough, the tradition goes way back to T Dan Smith

Reginald Maudling was conservative who had his snout in the trough. Greed doesn't have a party.

[HBelder]

Rusty Old-Banger said:

Grubby, grubby Labour.

I seem to remember that Neil Kinnock was less than impressed with Hatton way back when.

[shed driver]

HBelder said:

Rusty Old-Banger said:

Grubby, grubby Labour.

I seem to remember that Neil Kinnock was less than impressed with Hatton way back when.

He was expelled from Labour in 1986.

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[Ridgemont]

KAgantua said:

Bit of GBH

Great series!

I very much suspect it won’t be a Tory fit up in this case..

[Derek Smith]

There was a local town planning office in my force area at the centre of a bribery enquiry. I was not on the enquiry as such, but took a couple of statements from those doing the bribing. The 'going rate' was well-known I was told. Their excuse was that if they didn't pay the money, the plans would be blocked or delayed.

Two things stand out in this particular case: everyone in the department was on the take, even the temp brought in for maternity cover.

Second was the phone call I received from a friend, a town planner, working at the council, asking me if there was anything I could do as he was in the frame. I went to the senior investigating officer and told him. He was aghast as the level of offending and the response of those who 'accepted', in other words extorted, the money. They seemed unashamed, suggesting it goes on all the time. To be fair, it did.

I took no more statements. A couple were charged, although not the chap who phoned me. He left the council, but moved to one in a London borough, at more money, but it didn't stop him moaning about the extra travelling distance he was forced into.

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Former member of the Labour party.

[LimmerickLad]

Where's Stewie?

[Gordon Hill]

Rusty Old-Banger said:

Grubby, grubby Labour.