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Originally Posted by PeteEU  If it had been about corruption, then where are the trials of conservative politicans and backers during the Maggie and Major area? Why no investigations of all the weapons sales to Saudi Arabia during the 1980s, because I bet there were huge kickbacks given then too, and BAE was only one of many. |
The concerted attempt to reduce the welfare harming effects of corruption occurred after the Tory cronies. I made that clear with reference to the 1998 OECD anti-bribery convention
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Sorry this was a political witchhunt pure and simple.
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This should be about reducing the British tendency to rely on bribery, given it harms the British people. The attempt to suggest "national interest" is idiotic and fails to appreciate how our economy has suffered because of its arms industry. New Labour, as usual, are clueless and merely protecting the status quo.