Agenda 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/14/mp-stands-to-make-15m-from-kurdistan-oil-company-sale MP stands to make £1.5m from Kurdistan oil company sale Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi, will receive a payout of nearly £1.5m if the sale completes of the Kurdistan-based oil company for which he has worked since July 2015. He has been the Member of Parliament for Stratford-on-Avon since 2010. Zahawi apologised for claiming expenses for electricity to his stables and a mobile home. Is anyone really surprised that another conservative millionaire MP, who claimed for 2012/13 a total of £170,234 in expenses, and in November 2013 "apologised unreserv edly" after claiming £5,822 expenses for electricity for his horse riding school stables and a yard manager's mobile home, and has a very checkered record of voting to cap welfare payments to families and cut benefit payments generally, should now be in line to pocket another £1.5 million from an overseas investment. ...

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/panama-papers-money-hidden-offshore?CMP=share_btn_fb A network of secret offshore deals and vast loans worth $2bn has laid a trail to Russia’s president,  Vladimir Putin . Sky New, BBC news and the rest of the British media have been running this story since last night. All share the same slant in that they all repeatedly stress the connection of Vladimir Putin with Mossack Fonseca and the sleasy dealing in offshore bank accounts and money laundering What they also share, is a complete disregard of the names or suggestions of the identities of the British politicians and their connections with money laundering and other distasteful financial activities referred to in the millions of files leaked. Former Tory MPs, donors and David Cameron's father among those named If the media must respond to government "guidelines" to ramp up the anti Russian/anti Putin propaganda and play down any suggestion of sleaze ...

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rising-star-of-labour-and-betting-shop-critic-chuka-umunna-faces-embarrassment-after-accepting-20000-gift-from-gambling-executive-8748755.html Chuka Umunna faces embarrassment after accepting £20,000 gift from gambling executive Chuka Umunna A sad old party with few ideas and even less vision, demonstrating that even its "rising star" is little more than a clone of the discredited bunch of sleaze ridden politicians, loitering in the shadows of the House of Commons.