Gamblegate: The final Tory scandal of this government? | LBC analysis
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- The former Justice Secretary and Conservative candidate Robert Buckland has split from the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary by calling for those involved in the election betting scandal to be suspended.
Speaking to LBC this morning, the Home Secretary admitted that the ongoing betting scandal is “frustrating” but has denied calls for Rishi Sunak to suspend those being investigated.
A string of people with links to either the Conservative Party or No10 are alleged to have placed bets on the timing of the July 4 election before Mr Sunak announced it.
This includes Nick Mason, chief data officer for the Conservative party, who is being investigated for bets placed on the date of the election, according to the Sunday Times.
LBC understands that Mason has taken a leave of absence from his role while the matter is investigated by the Gambling Commission. He denies any wrongdoing.
“It’s of course frustrating when you have conversations about inappropriate action,” James Cleverly told LBC’s Sunday with Lewis Goodall.
But he did not agree with calls for those being investigated to be suspended, saying that it is "right" to wait for the outcome of the investigation.
Carol Vorderman wonders if this is the 'final nail in the coffin' for the Tory party.
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Honesty, integrity & professionalism, that lasted about as long as every other Tory promise, about 10 minutes.
That long?
You are quite the optimist, 10 mins you say !?? 😅
That's a very generous amount of time. I'd of said 2 minutes tops
I thought I'd be a little easy on them because they're not having a very nice time at the moment, bless their little cotton socks.
Have
The PM who bet on the UK's financial collapse is furious!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
And greatly benefited from it.
So furious he forgot to suspend them
Rees-Mogg made 7 million on the shortening of the £ straight after the brexit referendum, Farage made a mint from doing the same.
@@GaryV-p3h”The system needs to take away the trough from the greedy politicians” … Eric Weinstein 2019.
Services to the country should be enough.
Using the word ‘flutter’ makes me heave. A flutter is plucking a horse out of a hat and hoping for the best. This isn’t a ‘flutter’ it’s egregious corrupt theft
I mean, you wouldn’t BET on it being the last Tory scandal! 😂😂
At this point we must be able to bet how many more will be caught 😂
PPE scandals to follow …..
@@Rossklesall of them 😅👍
The fact Sunak has not suspended any of them is not suprising what do you expect from someone who worked at Goldman Sachs.
Sunak's always been weak - this is more proof.
Tories lining their own pockets? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you...
Amazing its taken this long for a large chunk of people to realise. Tory voters really did live in their own world.
Yet everyone seems to ignore that Nigel Firage pushed Brexit purely for the same reasons, he could profit off it personally.
Fake news media! Oh wait....
I'm shocked but not surprised.
Tories always get cot on money.
And labour DON'T fill their pockets?
How naive.
Carol what a Brilliant Analysis.
This must be the end of the Tories.
@susan She's certainly talking a little more sense since switching parties!
@@chatham43she supports the lib dems
@@marcust123 and?
@@simoncox9689 LOL says it all really
First sentence made me laugh, she's a vacuous, narcissistic wash-out. Second sentence, I totally agree with.
More important to agree with the second sentence though I think.
FFS if footballers are banned for betting on a football game then these idiots should go to jail.
@Ved You mean like the footballers are?
@@chatham43 Who has more power over you, me and everyone else, some overpaid kicker of a ball or someone who makes the laws we have to abide by?
You seem to have misspelt shot.
But NEVER WILL.
👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
Torys deserve ZERO SEATS
It would be nice.
everyone needs to go and vote tories out if you want them out
Remember 1992?....OK the margin wasn't as wide as it is now, but tories were behind, but got in....don't let complacency set in, don't stay at home
Reform deserve 350 seats 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇬🇧🇮🇪
The failed Brexit Party is the other side of the Tory coin 🪙 😢!!!
Couldn't believe that Jacob RM used the term "insider trading" when describing these bets and it wasn't sarcasm when, whilst Chancellor, Sunak's Theleme Partnership bought millions of shares in Moderna just as Sunak was signing cheques for Moderna vaccines?
@Simonsmith And thanks for providing all the documentary evidence to support these claims. . Many here don't would you believe.
He’s *abused his position* to earn *billions*
Shocking news, but Jacob RM isnt Sunak.
But where were Labour over the corruption of vaccines? Oh yeah, silent.
Vote Reform or youre just voting the other side of the same coin of the tories with Labour.
Ah yes, Moderna. After one jab (which I felt obligated to get for my kids' sake)I had a minor heart attack and my doctor ordered me not to get another one.
@@AlyxCoe Labour making a big fuss about it arent they, oh nope, they are part of the corruption too, vote Reform, who have promised a full proper inquiry unlike th current sham.
Nicking the light bulbs on their way out!
The Tory Party 1834 - 2024 RIP
Gone but never forgiven, they will be gladly missed by so many.
@user But what about you. What do you think?😂
Brilliant epitaph!!!😂😂😂
@@michaelfoy I'm think of placing an announcement in the Torygraph on the 5th of July.
No, they will be back😢
_w0w_
The man whose father in laws company jumps in value after Sunak becomes chancellor, very angry at cheats
Corruption is the beating heart of every tory
Sunak is very weak.
If I were Starmer I'd step back, concentrate on campaigning on my manifesto, steer clear of talking about Sunak or his party, and just let them get on with their electoral self destruction..
@@terrymann1341 That's pretty much what Starmer's doing.
As Napoleon famously said, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
It would take a very determined Labour leader to get a word in edgeways, and the possibility of interrupting the flow of mistakes, absolutely zero.
Who?
Ms Vorderman confirms her place as a national treasure.
I wonder how many bets these Tory spives have done before as it seems its in their culture.
if I remember, wasn't Kwasi Kwarteng at a champagne cocktail evening 'do' with his chums, just the night before the LizTruss "Fabulously amazing Budget" ??? I thought at the time it ought to be investigated...
Sunaks hedge fund company bet on RBS' collapse, won and gained millions from public purse used to shore up the ailing company. My gast is flabbered at this story.
@catherine And even if you made this all up we wouldn't put it past him!
@@chatham43 common knowledge!
And how much has he made by crashing britain
@catherine In the cosy north London cocoon I don't doubt it.😊
@@catherinehanner284
RBS collapsed before he became mp…
Sunak isn’t even management material, let alone PM material. It’s incredible how amateurish this political circus really is. Mind blowing.
What a gift to all opposition parties, thank you Mr Sunak.
Final scandal? They've got 10 days yet.
How do we forget they locked us down unable to be with loved ones one last time while they had fine wine and a fine time ?
Well it's a.. fine time, the right time to make a change
The guy said the Tory party is on life support, let’s turn the machine off on July 4th.
It isn't just about fair play, it's about treating the office and responsibilities they have been fortunate enough to have with respect. They regard the ordinary people with disdain. Pigs in the trough.
Does not surprise me at all
Love it! I strongly advised when he first came to Office: Never allow a fox to guard a Hen House🇺🇸
It was Richy Snake's gambling which partly led to the banking crisis which led to tens of thousands of deaths due to austerity. This gambling pales into insignificance compared to his guilt.
Agreed.
Gamble gate
Party gate
perp gate
and the list continues!!!
The CON's will CON no more!!....
Sunak made his fortune thanks to insider trading
What a disgusting state this government is in ! How do we look on the world stage very very depressing!
... and, what about the politician pandemic profiteering. What happened to that case?
Labour is not winning, the Conservatives are losing badly.
A political party stays in power long enough to collapse under the weight of it's own corruption and incompetence.
This was the last chance for Tory MP's to fill their boots.
They have no morals
LOL … Carole just can’t stop herself giggling at how much damage this is doing to the tory brand.
It just shows that they only care about money and not the country.
Obviously, I could have told you that fact 30 years ago
Rishi Sunak Prime Minister without election undemocratic👇
As is Nigel Farage, leader of Reform Co Ltd. Undemocratic.
Talk to Charlie wing nut about it, he's the boss 😂
He was elected as an MP and became the leader of the party of government. I’m not a fan of his, but it totally was democratic. We don’t vote for leaders in the UK. We vote for our local constituency MP.
He has no power
@@methanedirigibleRUBBISH
A party rots from the head down.
5 headed in this case.... They all contributed in one way or another 😂😂😂
Exactl;y this one very much does Infosys
They broke the 'social contract' and that will be their demise. Simple.
Starmer should politely remind the gambling commission and betting industry who is in charge of gambling regulations for the next 5-10 years.
The Tory coffin can't take many more nails !
The final scandal?
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
11 days is enough time for another scandal to emerge, but it may be cutting it a bit fine.
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Carol where have you been?! We have all missed your beautiful oral destruction of the Tories.
Vote Tories Out To Help Out!
Please everyone vote, the polls will only be correct if people go out & vote, if you decide not to vote because its a foregone conclusion (which it isn't), or protest vote, the polls won't be correct. Use your democratic right, go out & vote
i think Mathew used a great word ...the latest betting corruption "reinforces" what we now think of the Tories...ie just out for themselves and little interest at putting our Country first ! keep going with the vids Carol, they help us through this mire
This definitely isn’t their first offence…
Wonder what odds Nigel n the rest of them got on Brexit 🤭
Sunak made his money by betting against RBOS on the basis of insider information. A file was passed to the police and they did nothing. However, we were offered land with planning permission at a very cheap price and told to keep quiet in compensation.
The Tories? Insider trading? Say it ain't so..!
We all know its true we’ve been here so many times before I’m surprised Matthew isn’t trying to play it down
just listened to a tory voter saying "we shud be where we were when we won the war"..FFS!!!!
Nobody told them Churchill lostvthe 1945 election then?
😂😂😂
Calling Gamblegate the final scandal underestimates and does no credit to the Torries. The night is still young…
I, for one, will never forgive nor forget what the Tory’s have inflicted on this country over the last 14 years. This is now our chance to show them just how much contempt they are held in by people. So, please, get out and vote them out on 4th July.
I am struggling to get a mental picture of the scene here, so many bets? Sunak enters - meeting convened, "Ok, I have decided to call the election for the 4th July!" meeting ends...all present - "Right, who's coming down the bookies - we're toast, so we may as well make a few quid." "...count me in, and me, and me also, yep I'm in, me too and me........."
On the take and on the make....it's who they are.
Rip off the bookies, go to jail. Rip off the people of the UK, make money.
Kudos to Tories. Every day they give us a new scandal. Such a generous bunch!
Vote Labour get the Tories out .
The issue here is the Right Wing of the Conservatives. The EU Referendum was meant to quieten them, but it emboldened them. By definition, the Right are selfish and destructive, and their philosophies do not align with philosophies that benefit the general population. The Conservatives have always been ‘the nasty party’, but nasty in a traditional schoolmaster way - as in, playing fair to the point of it being irritating, and even unkind but, importantly, with future success in mind. The populism model - fuelled by social media - plays into the hands of the right and people like Farage. The Conservatives have moved this way and Labour have filled the void left behind. Now we have one major party - Labour - standing on moderate principles. The Conservatives are aiming to attract the dimwits and they’ll realise that there are fewer of them than they think.
I think they'll manage one or two more.
If Sunak is the weakest link 🔗, so what is Suella Braverman 🤔????
Cruella is a barbed wire dog collar
Thatcher took milk from small children
If there has been third party betting, doesn't that amount to 'conspiracy' to defraud which, I believe, makes the offence much more serious? It seems to me that they've stopped using spades to dig the hole they're in and have called in the JCB.
I won't put any money on it, but maybe not the final scandal - they still have another 11 days :(
Goodbye please turn the lights off
conservative voters are all in carehomes i hadnt reallised that - must be the truth im sure
Whether they ought to be is another question.
@@annphillips1086 depends on their age i would imagine, but otherwise you have to accept people see differently to you is the point really in all this
@@alseeineye I beg your pardon, I thought your first comment was facetious and answered in the same vein.
They ll not be in much longer if the tories stay in power they ll be in a doorway near you
The final scandal?
Is it though????
I think there is still room for one more.
At least
Yes - it definitely sounds like a bunch of people who don't take their resposibilities seriously, and treat the whole thing as some kind of a game.
Due for a complete change
The Fall of the Cabal! 👀🤯🙏
There was a money-box at work ( it was a care-home job ) that had to be counted every time a new person came on shift. If it was ONE PENNY short it had to be reimbursed. Nothing unique about that. The point is that that is the reality most of us live in, and when we hear about what these Tory MP's get up to, it gets up peoples' noses, to put it mildly.
Surely this investigation won't go down as far as rank and file party member. Or will it???? Well lets face it, if your on a 'dead cert' you would tell your mate to have a punt wouldn't you. Just asking.
Sunak is supposed to be in charge, he should have looked every one of them in the eye and asked…did you place a bet, if so you are out. Instead he chooses to be a spineless creep and to avoid any responsibility in this matter whatsoever. Waiting for the gambling commission is a complete cop out and he knows it. The act of a craven coward.
Great Work.
This is more akin to the VIP-Lane scandal and furlough fraud.
greed greed greed me me me that's the Tory's
Aren't they sheer brilliance...? Those terminator machines! Oh it's beyond genius hahaha!
Zero seats … it CAN be done.
The figure of 200 flutterers has been mentioned!!!!
Remember when tory politicians had integrity no me neither
I would say I am surprised that this has happened but corruption runs deep in the tory party!
Surely no one is naive enough to be surprised about this?
After all that has gone before ?
Exactly how I feel. I've known this is Tory behaviour for donkey's years.
Reform to save the world please.
Absolutely disgusting
Partygate
Gamblegate
When you leave, Shutthegate.
What will happen to all tory postal vote now corruption is rife.
Just hope the Cons haven't privatised the postal service 😊
@@simonsmith4015 I do hope you are joking. The Royal Mail was privatised back in 2013.
We never really had to worry about getting the Torys out. They are doing a great job of that all by themselves 🙄
A Gov spokesman was unavailable due to more pressing matters at Royal Ascot.
Some people have short memories and partygate has been forgotten since Johnson left, but I have strong and fresh memories of that period of time and my recollection of subsequent numerous incidents within the conservative party of deceit, lies, illegality and scandal will not allow me to vote for them in the general election. My worry is that a vast majority feel the same way but don't want to vote for the labour party either, and the liberal democrats are a joke. My prediction is that the green party will come second because there is no other credible choice. Nigel Farage has just dug his own grave!!
Sorry to be that guy, but why does every political scandal has to be labelled with the 'gate' suffix?? 😁
Imagine if there was a scandal involving a gate?!
If the scandal involving President Nixon hadn’t happened in the Watergate Office building, all the scandals would be called something quite different.
Just a turn of phrase after Watergate - everyone knows what it means...
It all dates back to the Watergate scandal involving the former US president Richard Nixon. The scandal happened in a complex of buildings known as Watergate. It was such a scandal that Richard Nixon resigned from office making him the only US president to resign. The National Lampoon jokingly referred to a situation in Russia as Volgagate and then it stuck as a sort of joke by newspapers to add -gate to all future scandals.
It's been inherent since Nixon's downfall in '74 with Watergate, coming from the press on every political scandal ever since Let's just hope that some Tory dosen't get caught exposing himself to his neighbours over his fence, would be an ironic one wouldn't it; Gardengate...😂😂
And once again Sunak shows his weakness by not suspending them. That could have saved some credibility.
One of the few times the public will be on the bookies side.
It ain't a flutter if you know the outcome, it's insider dealing.
Poor MPs cannot manage on £91,000.
They need another £500, just to get by.
I always took the view that the majority of the partygate issue was political opportunism. Sunak arrives 5 mins early for a meeting and is ambushed by a cake and a receives a fine. Yet Keir Starmer's beer and curry after work was deemed ok. It was all nonsense. Gambling Gate is something else though. Complete greedy opportunism. A gift to the opposition parties. Sunak is right to follow the process and has said he will boot out from the party anyone found guilty - but nobody is listening anymore. The Conservatives are toast. Spent too much time infighting and not enough on running the country. The quality of their MPs and ministers has been abysmal. Unfortunately, I dont see things being any better under Starmer who has U turned on every promise and pledge he has ever made and who, along with the rest of his front bench, spouts gibberish in order to avoid answering a question.
Shame on them they behaved terribly during those 14 years this is cherry on top !
Describing a bet eith a known outcome as a flutter which suggests a frivolous bet with an uncertain outcome is dishonest too.
While we are on betting. Larger bets were placed on the stock market over Brexit and Liz Truss. A fair few millionaires were made there. Shisters and grifters. Tory standards, we should all pay attention to 100 quid bets or 100,000 quid. Well, they usually get away with the big ones. This is petty criminal stuff.
Every single Tory voter should just stay away from the polling stations. Ann the labour votes. Then we might get change. It’s the only way to keep the lot of them out.
More than shocking. But what’s next in a week?
Put them all in Prison
Sunak being sunak and has done here what he normally does to resolve problems.... absolutely nothing. The bystander pm.
I'm old enough to remember the Watergate scandal which brought down Richard Nixon in 1974, and from which all other 'gates' derive!