MPs grill Michael Gove over cronyism in dodgy levelling up projects 

Put it this way farmers can’t buy land at that rate

Surprisingly, for once in my life, I would and could have paid twice the amount per acre. Now that's a sentence I never dreamed I'd be able to write.

For the same reason as tRump is still not locked up in the USA and people in Westminster stuck two-fingers up to the citizens of the Dis-United Kingdom during Covid and so on and so on. One rule for the uber-rich, and one rule for the rest of us mere serfs.

This x 10^6.

Just get itv to make a drama about it and then the law will react 😂

Don't be rude to weasels.

​@@chrissaltmarsh6777 I imagine they would be horrified to be compared to such a cretin.

​@breamoreboyPeople voted for Boris Johnson though.

Fucked my education right up he did

@@ebenbaker1Ah the IGCSE days when he led to them cancelled right as we got the results.

very bad dad dancer and a disgrace

One of many corrupt millionaire politicians.

That’s quite an award with Mogg and Lee Anderson!

And big dogs

Mmm, talk dinghy to me......

You got it!

And homeless people who have made a "life choice"

look over there crustacean deaths

Is this slimy toad changing colour?

A protected gang menber and confidence trickster

Why wouldn't he be arrogant? He knows he's going to get away with it and has probably already made a fortune.

@@josephkerrigan733 indeed, I blame it on the people who elected him.

Greed is good and look after number 1. All from Thatcher.

And Johnson

They will be signing up illegal immigrants off the boat for that scheme ...

Statement of the decade. Thanks

@randomdaveUK ....Exactly ! 👏👏

Oh come off it and stop getting surprised

Total transparency - these f**cking clown.....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's fraud. And yes, prison is the only thing that can come close to justice.

what a lovely thought of gove slopping out

@@Hascienda27 How about you stop being apathetic about it instead?

has always been that way, it goes all the way back to the start of the party

Because the media owned by billionaires are fully in on it they don't want you to know they just point at the most vulnerable in society and spread hate 😎👍

Because no-one semi famous is fucking someone who wants to be demi famous. Or Nigel Fuckface isn't talking culture war bullshit, again. So you won't buy the newspaper... ...Private Eye has covered this every fortnight for at least two years, when did you last buy an issue?

Because Google the MPs names and check how many own or have shares in most of the main media channels otherwise they are owned by the rich that pay these idiots in government if you think you are free then you need to wake up

Who owns the papers? Who runs the media? Like protects like.

Right wing media.

They even advertise themselves as CON

I would say it's their word for theft. That's all they are, robbers and thieves in suits.

Not just the conservatives Liebor as well and many MPs from all three parties.

Its stealing nothing else. They had an asset worth millions that they sold for pennies to a friend.

@@JustAlanJohn Well have you ever thought of being comedian, no, good because you suck with this both sides shit.

Local Authorities OWN Nothing , it All Belongs to The People,, Councillors administer the Business on behalf off Local Communities.

Good idea , like they did about the post office scandal 🙄

@@carlarthur4442 literally the point I was making

Yet nothing is done they just keep taking our tax money

Yes, private eye does fall into the crony camp

Yes - please see Richard Brooks' reporting in Private Eye about this : they have a podcast also, entitled "North South"

He couldn't find integrity in the dickshunerry 😆

@adamgoulder8019 if labour included their own they’d manage to fill the whole paper and not just the ads section. Regardless of the party, they all piss in the same pot

Why not check his offshore bank account

@@paulchivers9255- this is the kind of statement that keeps crooks in power, ‘they are all crooked’ says the feeble minded, then “ so I’ll vote for this crook because he’s a bigot/racist/ Tory crook like me”

And jailed with his comrades

The damage has been done and the Tory party would be saying ...mission accomplished

It would be headline news in the UK if it was anyone but the Tories doing it.

​@@dondoodat I disagree, the journalists were just as problematic and parroting government spiel when Tony Blair and Labour were in power. But this has been a deeply problematic since the invention of the television. The BBC was invented to feed propaganda into our homes.

It doesn't pay in the modern World (except for Private Eye, somehow) but it also doesn't seem to make much difference. Seems like there's a sleaze and gainsaying overload where people now just ignore all this shit. They don't have the time, capacity or will to check all the evidence themselves so if you lie hard enough about everything it just looks like one person's word against another and looks like a component of party politics to the bystander. The fix isn't journalism. There's a select committee here that know all about this and have plenty of evidence but only the power to give him an awkward conversation They don't even make it that awkward. As an oversight setup that's just bullshit. MPs cannot police MPs.

Private Eye have been all over this

Private Eye is well worth the subscription. This and the Post Office scandal both well covered and for some time

He can't force it but he can allow the crime agency as much rope and resources that they need. He is going to have a hard job sorting the nation with all the debt we now have and the utter mess

He'll do fk all as usual

He didn't stop savil,so why would he do anything about anything!

@@joolzhillman4385 Did the BBC and police force for decades bring evidence for him to bring charges against Savile, or are you saying hearsay was enough to charge and prosecute Savile....i mean talk about a attempt to deflect that goes no where.

Starmer is in on the scams

Cronyism is the way MPs say Corruption ,i believe that they are not allowed to accuse people of corruption for some weird reason

Stealing

Slimey lier

They're their own class until people actually make an effort they'll change nothing, Labour by the second or third year will be just as odious. It's a class of people fighting over each other to loot.

It saddens me that prison was not mentioned in the entire exchange.

Why would it? These are wealthy people, they don’t go to prison. It’s not a thing.

Jeffrey Archer? @@ozjob

@@getheroutofthetruck well done an exception. Barely the rule.

He knows where skeletons are buried.

alas that is why he is still there..he is a marvellous politician...he lies, avoids answering, speaks constant waffle, dodges, evades, ducks, cowers, squirms.,smirks, grins, while all the time considering everyone his inferior..

Imagine if we still put people in stocks and chucked things at them …. The que for this little prick would never end

Talking shit runs in his genes

This sort of stuff makes me sick to my stomach and nothing will get done about it broken Britain and I'm ashamed to be English

That's why the money going in not only isn't sufficient, the Tories are funnelling it out the back door to private organisations. From cleaning companies, drug companies to bank nurses. It's all so they make money for themselves and their mates

And who owns those companies? And which Tory MPs sit on the board of directors of those companies?

They don't, each NHS Trust is free to put this out to public tender.

@@dm4728 But they still chose mates!

Can you name this provider?

In the end he has no defence except to say that the investigation is politically motivated.

100% agree but they couldn't restrict the scope or drag out a NAO investigation beyond the General Election like they can & do with inquiries Clearly there's something crooked going on because . the difference in land value over a year . clearance & clean-up costs v scrap valuation . they're giving Richard Brooks, Private Eye, the runaround - Big mistake on their part

Simple most people are as dumb as rocks..............

To anyone outside of politics the very fact that public land is sold at £1 an acre should be an outrage. How Gove manages to distance himself from the transaction by refusing to comment because of an investigation is breath-taking. Would he sell his soul for a mere £1?

You not realised, they got no soul

You not realised, they got no soul

​@@stephengraham1153 Agreed. Gove stressed several times that the investigation is "independent" yet ignored the point raised here that he prevented the National Audit Office (NAO) from conducting the probe.

Not the word I'd use 🤣

@@angryjohn5754 im trying my best 5o be polite about it 🥲

Absolute BS 🤡🤡🤡🤮

They had their chance - in 2019 with almost a decade of Tory rule already ... but instead of standing up to them, they gave them even MORE power than before. What does THAT make "the people"?

@@Alfadrottning86there’s A lot of words to describe but let’s go with cun… Idiots

@@Alfadrottning86 that makes them idiots and I know several of them. They still say the stupid soundbytes they've got from the sun and the BBC.

Don't go blaming us for them. We Irish hate them Tories far more and for far longer than you lot.

Nobody, they take far too long, and by the time they finish nobody is around to carry the can. Obfuscation is one thing the Tories are brilliant at.

it's theatre, 9:57 "Parliamentary privilege grants certain legal immunities for Members of both Houses to allow them to perform their duties without interference from outside of the House. Parliamentary privilege includes freedom of speech and the right of both Houses to regulate their own affairs."

@@djquantize in other words they are effectively above the laws they set for the rest of us.

@@karimparker1323 na it all good, they "sElf rEguLatE". Posh version of trust me bro, let me hold your phone for a minute.

Gove keeps flattering his inquisitors to deflect their questions . What a slime ball!

Amazing none of them are in prison.

@@jonemery8324 not really, it seems pretty standard.

any normal citizen would have got 25 years plus@@jonemery8324

Constant thisting!

To everyone else the answer is simple and obvious and can be answered in less than 10 seconds.

Because we’ve been divided as a society, it’s all about me me me and the “us” is being intentionally dissolved in order to have control over the masses via social media etc etc.

Kear Starmer wont do that he,s as dodgy as these scummy tories

Keir is cut from the same cloth. Only Corbyn would have delivered real change. That's why they made sure he wasn't going to win.

Keir starmer would be top of list there is no opposition in british politics last one we had was Guy Fawlkes

@@samanthagarbettcharles4205 ridiculous

@@YA-hm5zy he didn't win did he, so let's move on

You sold it for £1 /acre unfortunately. So did I.

So shouldn't we buy Goves lands and houses for £1 an acre

Exactly - Lying or evasive politicians should be fined and repeat offenders jailed. It would be easy to set up an independent panel to fact check them or to rate their responses to questioning

They hide behind an enquiry all the time 😢

Good point. I have to ask myself how many times, over the last fourteen years, did the opposition ask any questions at PMQs about the latest Post Office scandal.

@@stephengraham1153they did.

@@stephengraham1153 Admit it. The Tory government are only taking action now, blowing more taxpayers money at a problem they had the power to solve, because a General Election is looming , and they’re trying to blow smoke in the face of the electorate who are about to consign them to the proverbial ditch along with Boris Johnson. 14 years of unfettered Tory misrule and you’re trying to blame the political opposition who have minimal power, with your drivel.

@@LynnefromlynSo how many times was this injustice raised during PMQs over the last fourteen years? If the opposition (and by this I mean Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP) had pursued this disgraceful treatment of Post Masters vigorously with the tory government why has it only been recognised now? Why does it take a TV program for our politicians to pull their fingers out?

Free for them

That's why they wanted Freeport's. It's why other nations have rejected them because they're hubs of tac avoidance, corruption, no workers rights and destruction of the environment

Fraudport ?

Lock Gove up 🤡🤣

"Sub-Judassy"

Because they don't care enough to make it convincing. They know it will all be forgotten next week and at worst they can just retire and face no consequences

Yes !

2 wings of 1 bird I’m afraid

Tories are the wing of the bird that's been in power 13 years and destroyed the country, maybe the other wing will be marginally better

House arrest. Don't want them mingling in the same building.

Gove is a master of obfuscation and meaningless mass-gesticulation.

They are levelling up. They are making sure that their friends, colleagues, big businesses and influential people all get their “ fair” share of public money. Levelling up does not mean what the public assume that it means.

And in the process riling up the population.