The Conservative Party betting scandal that keeps 'unravelling' | Alicia Fitzgerald
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- “It makes the public feel like there is more sleaze in the Conservative Party.”
The Conservatives are under fresh scrutiny over the election betting scandal despite Rishi Sunak wanting "to quiet" it all down says Times Radio Political correspondent Alicia Fitzgerald.
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Boris succesfully drummed out all the conservative MPs who still had a moral compass. All that are left are bad apples.
100% right ✅️
Conservatism is horseshit
The whole party is one bad apple
It is not a few bad apples but a barrel of rotten ones whole party probably
Rotten barrel!
More like a diseased orchard
The full quote is "A few bad apples will rot the whole barrel."
Indeed they have.
Just as "The fish rots from the head" Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May and Cameron.
NEVER TRUST A TORY !!!
Never trust a Political figure they're just a distraction they use terrible tragedies to gain support all while not caring about people their obligation is to the king and they're only loyal to each other
NEVER TRUST A SOCIALIST
They’re just trying to earn enough to afford Sky TV.
A warehouses of bad barrels of apples.
"We will not comment until the enquiry is complete ( and you peasants have forgotten about it)" said the PM for the umpteenth time since 2019.
STOP protecting/covering a limp wristed, weak, disconnected PM with 8 days left. This inaction is his pattern again, ignore, wait, ignore, finally 50% action, then finally real action.
The whole ideology is the bad apple; how do i make a few quid?
5 met police ,destroy there career ,s for a couple hundred quid ,,shows there mentality ,,😮
Rotten ones 😂😂
The Gambling Commission need to investigate all partners and spouses of Tory MPs. It’s strange that some Tory MPs and their staff, supporters and partners were seen to be canvassing before the election was even called, so they most obviously had prior knowledge of the date and could easily have placed bets!
I had a conservative leaflet through the door a couple of months ago, the rest have just landed last week and Labour today.
For all of you complaining about your corruption in the UK, the USA Supreme Court just ruled that 40-years of laws against officials accepting money & gifts AFTER awarding lucrative contracts are now ILLEGAL. That means if any Tory moves to the USA it is now perfectly legal for a UK company to give them £100,000 as a thank-you for giving them a £10,00,000 PPE contract. Don’t you just love crony capitalism?
Yeah, it’s only 98% who give the rest a bad name.
Sunak has redefined the meanings of the words integrity, professionalism and accountability.
Pity that he didn't have an umbrella, when he walked out into Downing Street... Maybe he was afraid of being called ' Steve Maclaren Umbrella Man, part 2 '..?
All we need now is Dominic Raab to go on tv and say, “Look, the Police don’t just go around investigating things that happened a month ago.”
It started off with a couple of gamblers, now we're up to five. I bet William Hill has been packed to the rafters with Tories. 😂
I bet that the Tory MP's have placed bets AGAINST England winning the Euro 2024... Now that really would be Treason !
A few bad apples, it's a lorry load of wronguns and that includes Sunak himself. He should suspend himself for his conflicts of interest and corrupt policy making to suit his families business interests.
Hello from New Zealand 😁. This is interestingly funny 😃 Hardcase even 😃. Bad boys in trouble 😊. Hahaha
Seems to be common practice, all over the world now ?
Tory cabinet minister Jack made £2,200 on GE bet. He joked to BBC he was only "pulling leg" of journalist. It turned out to be true. Jack is not the only minister to have made a bet. Watch this space.
For all of you complaining about your corruption in the UK, the USA Supreme Court just ruled that 40-years of laws against officials accepting money & gifts AFTER awarding lucrative contracts are now ILLEGAL. That means if any Tory moves to the USA it is now perfectly legal for a UK company to give them £100,000 as a thank-you for giving them a £10,00,000 PPE contract. Don’t you just love crony capitalism?
They could have got someone else to place the bets instead of using their own names but they didn't I can only think it's cause they are thick
They are not thick. They have such a sense of hubris that they think that they cannot get caught. Getting caught is for the great unwashed little guys. It is bloody sickening to witness.
For all of you complaining about your corruption in the UK, the USA Supreme Court just ruled that 40-years of laws against officials accepting money & gifts AFTER awarding lucrative contracts are now ILLEGAL. That means if any Tory moves to the USA it is now perfectly legal for a UK company to give them £100,000 as a thank-you for giving them a £10,00,000 PPE contract. Don’t you just love crony capitalism?
It's the whole orchard
Where are the good apples? If there ever were any, they left long ago.
Johnson deselected them all in 2019 to "Get Brexit Done"
That worked out well
Same applies to ALL 650 of them... Can anyone name a ' good ' politician ?
The barrel is spoilt
Boris would be proud the drinks are on him lol.
He has never paid for a round in his life
Another week in Toryworld. The LAST week.
If we are not carefull thay will be back with that idiot farage as pm beware
They are saying £6,000,000 was bet in total at 25/1. That's 1.5 Billion paid out.
Major point against the Times argument - didn't Sunak know about this *before* the deadline for candidates? Therefore had he acted immediately, he could have replaced the ones under investigation with other candidates. At this point, there don't even seem to be a few good apples left.
He's weak
The reason the prime minister is left it so late he's a weak Prime Minister why do sort of feel sorry for him because he's way out of his death has Nina Dean Doris said on LBC earlier is Conservative Party needs to be completely reorganised from the roots upward that's the only way you're going to have a conservative party to come back in the future it won't be yet it probably be 10 years or more and also they've got to be punished for leaving people in such despair and poverty and they've got to be punished for the PPE fiasco and they still a lot of stuff we need to find out like how many ministers made money on the side fruit giving contracts to their friends list all Needs investigating
UK is a thin shadow of its grand past and history.
Its sad.
Rishi will be glad when the election is over. He’ll then be free of this nightmare forever.
Every time there is a scandal on Sunak’s watch he uses the argument there is an investigation and does nothing. The scandal then gets worse and is forced to act and this makes him look weak and not proactive. He’s not good at the job!
enough bad apples to make an ocean of bad cider 🍎🍺 In cider betting..?
Oooohhhh, how very clever... ! Time for the whole bunch to be kicked out !
Is Sunak still 'very angry'? Guess so.
He knew about Wiliiams a week before the deadline, so it is flatly false to say that the hesitation was down to the fact its too late to replace them.
Sunak needs to read the Prince. He keeps making the same mistake over and over again. When there is a crisis he tries to pick the middle ground. This is a mechanical fault - always pick a side and stick to it. If you don’t pick a side then both sides despise you. If you pick a side only one does.
It’s basic stuff, he just isn’t up to the job.
Did Sunak vet his candidates or take a gamble on them?
a few bad apples, wow, when you are eventually ousted, the books need to be gone through to find out what you lot have truly been up to.
If more names come to light in this scandal, we could theoretically see Sunak gone before July 4th, as his position as leader is in my opinion untenable now, he has no authority, what there was if any has gone...
Has Sunak been asked and answered definitively when he first heard that his private aide had placed a bet on the date of the election? I have seen suggestions that was BEFORE the closing date for nominations of candidates in the elections. If so, then Sunak is as guilty as Johnson ever was of his most despicable behaviour: doing nothing to reprimand colleagues when their corrupt or unsavory conduct comes to light and hoping it will all blow over if he can just brazen it out for long enough.
Im so emotional and broken 💔 thinking of just giving up TOTALLY the way people's benefits and disabled people's benefits being taken away stopped and treated like S**T is totally in human putting people on the streets cant see myself being here much longer just cant see away out of this the GOVERNMENT AND THE F**KING murdering DWP will be the cause of so many suicide's making mental health and anxiety a million times worse may i RIP 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Keep trying there Jurgen.
It'll slowly get better after July 4th,
if you also want to make it happen.
I feel your pain dude. Pretty much in the same boat. It’s been a struggle for years now.🤞
Knife crime. Could we not find out WHO sold these children the knives and jail the supplier? Might have a more sobering effect on those who put profit above human life.
right, like at the end of a sentence - stop it you are not 15 years of age, right
4th July they will be gone forever.
Internecine feuding has caused us to suffer five prime ministers over the past fourteen years.
I look forward to Labour having a similar number of incumbents over the next 14 years, and keenly anticipate the Press being quite happy to accommodate the process.
Perhaps they need reminding that they are in public service, not out to make money. Would be good if they were banned from making money outside of their substantial pay and benefits. Might disuade bad apples.
Wait five minutes for the next scandal
All corrupt politicians
Met police? Shocker !
Was he waiting for the Sue Gray report?
Everything’s really bad at the moment ,sunak should of sorted all this ,like everything else he hasn’t done
"Sunak bets journalists a tenner that he will get to the bottom of this"..
It wasn't too late to replace them when he found out!!
Get proper analysts.
Tories are fine with any behaviour unless it goes public
Why does she keep saying sadly?
Greedy cheating politicians we remember expenses scandal 😡😠
What do you hear when you get out there? said the presenter,🙄.
None of our mps has any common sense just a bunch of silver spoons.
The gift that keeps on giving 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
“Bet” he didn’t see this coming 😜
I sudpect there will be more scandles to vome...
Yes truss did it with the pound and made the conservatives alot of money .
A “few bad apples” more like a Tory party full of bad apples with a few good apples hanging on
Sad
Tip of the iceberg? Bet it's not
TRANSPARENCY Sunak promised.
It's just a few bad orchards
I can guarantee you that alarm bells were ringing at the betting shops as soon as the amount of money being staked deviated 10% above mean. I’m surprised that they didn’t actually just stop taking bets once they knew that the info was obviously out there, but luckily they didn’t, so now we have god knows how many people guilty of insider trading and cheating.
A whole Party of rotten apples. The Tories are incapable of doing anything hard. Snouts in the trough, riding the gravy train, their specialty.
A few bad apples?
Bring back the stocks :)
Tory media, throw anyone under the bus.
It was the police...
Conduct in a public office.
That somehow doesn't apply to members of parliament
Yes, we are all becoming familiar with the term - " Misconduct in Public Office ". Should there ever be an investigation into the activities of ALL these politicians, then that is the crime that they should be charged with... There is plenty of evidence that they are all guilty... They are all very fortunate that they are NEVER held to account for the consequences of their actions... Would probably need a new prison to be build, to house them all....
Sunak you can’t silence the Truth!!!
Reform is the truth?😂
Things can only get bet ter
Did Sunak place a bet ?
I doubt it... He would have got Larry the cat to place his bet !
Vote Reform
Nah
The party gate betters lol
No idea what you are talking about
Ok, we all agree, the Tories are feckless wasters.
It might just be the algorithm, but I only get offered acres and acres of Tory bashing content from this channel. How about a video extoling the virtues of Starmer's up and coming government?
How will his shower of feckless waster be different to the Tories?
How many of you are paid up members of the WEF ?
Oh please, stop this nonsense. Get some help.
WEF does some good things and some bad. But when a boy cries wolf over and over again - by demonising WEF in a mindless way - then people ignore criticisms because they hear them all the time from you. So you allow WEF to get away with the bad things.
Deal with your feelings of isolation and your need to justify your 'outsider' views by some other means. Demonising something by crying wolf all day long isn't going to help you - or anyone else.
Then look at WEF objectively, and when it does something good, point this out. When you feel it's out of order, make justifiable criticisms.
Crying wolf all the time just encourages people to overlook the negative stuff from WEF because they hear this all the time from people who display no critical faculties.
Get new parties in. You can’t trust either
You have zero evidence for that.
you've not had labour since 2010, they stopped the whole country imploding when the "Global financial crissis" happened. Back then Sunak was working for a company at the centre of the crisis (he made a huge amount of money out of it!)
@@martinhammett8121 Well said!
@@Lynnefromlyn all I said was you can’t trust them. 😂 calm down dear
VOTE REFORM VOTE REFORM VOTE REFORM VOTE REFORM
So reform has bot accounts. Interesting 🤔
Yes, more extreme Right-wing policies will certainly make things even more... uh... Right-wing.
Things can only get bet ter