Apparently the current government is ratcheting up transparency, particularly for financial accountability of public bodies. Which is a good thing of course. From the ramblings of this man, you'd think that the only thing that this process could ever uncover was more sinister activity by the previous Labour government.
So it's particularly interesting to find out which companies contributed to Conservative MPs and their election campaigns, and which have subsequently been rewarded quite nicely.
All the more interesting given just how much the Conservative Party has talked about the Big Society, getting local charities to do things and be pro-active. Not when it isn't in the interests of the big businesses bankrolling the Conservative Party though, it seems. I had a discussion in the Blenheim a few weeks back with some friends (one of whom votes Tory) about these business conflicts of interest. It was suggested there and then that codes of conduct should sort these kinds of problems out. Hmm.
Indeed, not good - hence the idea of transparency is a good one - Hopefully will keep all sides on the straight and narrow as it were
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