Anything Tories can allegedly do, Labour can allegedly do bigger and better.

[spen666]

So Baroness Mone a Tory Lord is accused of ripping the state off for £200million or so.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nnq8q5depo

Not to be out done Tulip Siddiq, Labours Treasury Economic Secretary has allegedly raised the bar by being named in a £3.9billion fraud.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3zqen209go

 

[multitool]

Bit of an obvious difference, though, isn't there.

 

[icowden]

So Baroness Mone a Tory Lord is accused of ripping the state off for £200million or so.
Not to be out done Tulip Siddiq, Labours Treasury Economic Secretary has allegedly raised the bar by being named in a £3.9billion fraud.

False corollary. Siddiq was not representing the Labour Party when this alleged fraud took place.
Your thread title should be "Anything the Tories can do, Bangladesh can allegedly do bigger and better"

 

[Rusty Nails]

So Baroness Mone a Tory Lord is accused of ripping the state off for £200million or so.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nnq8q5depo

Not to be out done Tulip Siddiq, Labours Treasury Economic Secretary has allegedly raised the bar by being named in a £3.9billion fraud.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3zqen209go

 

[dutchguylivingintheuk]

Yeah a person who committed fraud elsewhere is a great choice for a function to prevent corruption. If Labour knew they ignored it, if they didn't knew they didn't do background checks.. both of them are terrible and indeed very much what we have seen from the tories in the past years.
And what a sh!te argument to claim she wasn't labour when she committed that crime.

 

[spen666]

Yeah a person who committed fraud elsewhere is a great choice for a function to prevent corruption. If Labour knew they ignored it, if they didn't knew they didn't do background checks.. both of them are terrible and indeed very much what we have seen from the tories in the past years.
And what a sh!te argument to claim she wasn't labour when she committed that crime.

To be fair.

You are looking at it with hindsight - there is nothing to suggest Labour should or could have known about it before it was made public this week.
Similarly with Baroness Mone- there was no way the Tories could have known she would allegedly commit a crime in the future

 

[matticus]

Similarly with Baroness Mone- there was no way the Tories could have known she would allegedly commit a crime in the future

To be fair - they did give her the money.

 

[BoldonLad]

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Even if it is true, there are some insurmountable obstacles

 

[Bromptonaut]

To be fair.

You are looking at it with hindsight - there is nothing to suggest Labour should or could have known about it before it was made public this week.
Similarly with Baroness Mone- there was no way the Tories could have known she would allegedly commit a crime in the future

Given her husband was involved too there might have been red flags??

 

[Ian H]

Given her husband was involved too there might have been red flags??

Didn't the allegations start only after her aunt, the former prime-minister, left the room? Also there seems to be a Bangladeshi tradition of traducing ex-leaders. Which is not to say there can't be any substance to the story.

As of 10 September 2024, Hasina is facing 152 cases which include 135 for murder, 7 for crimes against humanity and genocide, 3 for abduction, 6 for attempted murder and 1 for the attack on a Bangladesh_Nationalist_Party' [BNP] procession [wiki]

 

[Mr Celine]

Similarly with Baroness Mone- there was no way the Tories could have known she would allegedly commit a crime in the future

She had a history of exaggerating her assets and selling equipment for other people to exaggerate theirs.