Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
Well ours are supposed to declare all theirs and direct lobbying is more controlled these days. More subtle lobbying is harder to control. I would say there are more principled Mp's than those whoa re in it for the gravy train and being a constituency MP is hard work and life consuming.

Don't we all like Freebies?
The issue is wider than MPs, Bankers etc (who else is on RA's hit list?), the fact of it, and I'm not even sure if this is a recent thing, is that if you are offered a ticket on the gravy train it's bloody difficult to rip it up. In my uppy downy business life I've been unaware of it, on the cusp of it, well and truly on it and back off it a number of times and in a number of industries, none anywhere near politics or banking, likewise Mrs F, who's job in the past has pretty much depended on a gravy train being in situ. MPs and bankers are just more 'in the news' but other industries - recruitment, PR, music are three I can think of would leave MPs standing - the sheer spend level on banking probably dwarfs them all though