Originally Posted by
BlackPeter
Just citing John Dalberg-Acton :);
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men"
Obviously - John's world was not PC ... otherwise we would have talked about "women" instead of "men"
Who is in power? I guess you can easily answer your question yourself, but if I need to point you to some symptoms of the problem, than just follow a bit the saga around your new found populist friends.
Trying to silence opposition MP's by threatening to withdraw support from projects in their electorates if they speak for them would be corruption. Threatening to withdraw regional support as penalty for a MP criticizing a government minister would be corruption. Was this really just a big misunderstanding created by inept government MP's?
Agree however that the senior coalition partner at this stage seems to make more headlines just through acting incompetent, than corrupt. But hey - we don't know everything, and I am just wondering why we still couldn't identify the sex offender in Labour's annual binge drinking contest? Maybe somebody in the know could comment on the rumor that the offender is the offspring of a Labour minister?
Would somebody else enjoy similar protection? If no - than this would be corruption as well.