The Tory politician James Duddridge pockets £3300 a month from a lobbying company,but don’t worry. whether it were a problem, it wouldn’t be legalWhat is the advantage of letting sitting MPs work for lobbying firms? What are the pluses of that, or for the country? Because we carry out allow it,so I’m assuming there must be some upside.After all, there are clear advantages to many things we don’t allow: smoking on petrol station forecourts, and for example. Allowing that would mean,whether you’re addicted to smoking, or enjoy smoking, or think smoking makes you look frosty,you could carry out it while filling your car with petrol, polishing its bonnet, and going to buy snacks,checking the tyres and so on. You wouldn’t be inconvenienced by either the discomfort of nicotine withdrawal or a hiatus in the image of nonchalant suavity that having a fag in your mouth invariably projects.
Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk