Geoffrey Cox MP

[BillyStubbsTears]

Buckle up. Here comes the next one...

[Axholme Lion]

Buckle up. Here comes the next one...

Well if Labour got their act together it's becoming an open goal.
The Conservatives are doing their best to put people off from voting for them. Over to you.

[Bentley Bullet]

Maybe they could find a new leader lurking in the shadows of a 3rd division off-topic football forum?

[selby]

  Well, there is a surprise, it looks like old Stabber Starmer trousers trousers £275 an hour from his second job bringing him in a cool quarter of a million last year and the leader of the Liberals ED Dayey charges £ 675 an hour for his second job, whisper it.
   I bet there is quite a few whiter ( should it be redder) than white shaking like a shi**ing dog over this subject on every side of the house, and now all of them will be coming under the other sides microscope.

[SydneyRover]

  Well, there is a surprise, it looks like old Stabber Starmer trousers trousers £275 an hour from his second job bringing him in a cool quarter of a million last year and the leader of the Liberals ED Dayey charges £ 675 an hour for his second job, whisper it.
   I bet there is quite a few whiter ( should it be redder) than white shaking like a shi**ing dog over this subject on every side of the house, and now all of them will be coming under the other sides microscope.

It's all here, but you won't want to read the Guardian aye selby?

''Keir Starmer did legal work on top of his job as MP, records show
Starmer was paid almost £26,000 for work while he was an MP before he became Labour leader''

''Only three Labour MPs have second jobs in consultancy or as directors, compared with 90 Conservatives''

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/10/keir-starmer-did-legal-work-on-top-of-his-job-as-mp-records-show

[Filo]

  Well, there is a surprise, it looks like old Stabber Starmer trousers trousers £275 an hour from his second job bringing him in a cool quarter of a million last year and the leader of the Liberals ED Dayey charges £ 675 an hour for his second job, whisper it.
   I bet there is quite a few whiter ( should it be redder) than white shaking like a shi**ing dog over this subject on every side of the house, and now all of them will be coming under the other sides microscope.

Do those second jobs involve lobbying fellow MP’s on behalf of organisations seeking influence?

[selby]

That proves it then Syd, the Tories have the brighter employable minds, and firms want them to work for them, and the labour MPs can go back to sweeping the streets.

[SydneyRover]

That proves it then Syd, the Tories have the brighter employable minds, and firms want them to work for them, and the labour MPs can go back to sweeping the streets.

What it shows selby is that the tory party can lie, cheat and cover its voters in sewage and they still ask for more.

[bpoolrover]

Is what cox has done broke rules genuine question as don't know

[BillyStubbsTears]

Is what cox has done broke rules genuine question as don't know

Apparently he was conducting his side business in the House of Commons which is 100% against the rules. And that's before you address the moral argument of an MP vanishing from his constituency to earn £1m-ish for a few days work advising overseas tax haven bosses how to take on the UK Govt in a legal case.

[albie]

Blackpool,

Here you go, an explainer on the Cox affair;
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/tory-mp-geoffrey-cox-has-undeclared-stake-in-tax-avoidance-scheme/

He is going to walk the plank, even if it is only to save the skin of CoCo.

[wilts rover]

Is what cox has done broke rules genuine question as don't know

Apparently he was conducting his side business in the House of Commons which is 100% against the rules. And that's before you address the moral argument of an MP vanishing from his constituency to earn £1m-ish for a few days work advising overseas tax haven bosses how to take on the UK Govt in a legal case.

Yes. That is one of the things that Paterson was found guilty of.

It gets curiouser with Cox however, as he is now claiming he had the government's permission to do what he did - break Common's rules.

[DonnyOsmond]

People like Selby struggle to understand the issue isn't having second jobs.

[SydneyRover]

People like Selby struggle to understand the issue isn't having second jobs.

He has lucid moments, few and far between though.

[selby]

  Sure do Syd, like if I tread in the doo doo walking the Dog, some on here including you come to mind when I wipe my shoe on the grass.

[SydneyRover]

Selby, being able to tell shit from clay is usually learned really early.

[Glyn_Wigley]

That proves it then Syd, the Tories have the brighter employable minds, and firms want them to work for them, and the labour MPs can go back to sweeping the streets.

It proves what contempt the Tories have for the people who voted for them.

[BillyStubbsTears]

As I've said before, I've no fundamental issue with an MP having a second job as long as it:
- doesn't break Parliamentary rules.
- doesn't lead to obvious conflicts of interest and
- is sufficiently limited that it doesn't interfere with the job of being an MP.

Cox has earned £6m from his legal work since 2005. He has earned around £1m as an MP in that time. In my book, that makes him a lawyer who has a second job as a part time MP.

[selby]

  Its the thought that counts Syd, and that's not often Syd, I don't have a complex about you or anyone else  like you seem to have about me. you don't even get the attention of an itch.

[Filo]

  Its the thought that counts Syd, and that's not often Syd, I don't have a complex about you or anyone else  like you seem to have about me. you don't even get the attention of an itch.

Enough attention to keep commenting though, that itch must be really stubborn

[selby]

  It's for the reaction Filo. And no it isn't, water and ducks back comes to mind, unlike some I have never complained about others on here, I just leave that to the insecure.

[bobjimwilly]

A list of MP's who have 2nd jobs as consultants: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-59206904

I wonder how people with no experience of the industry they are advising in are worth the money they are paid?  Hmmm.....

[normal rules]

Take a look at theyworkforyou.com to get a taste of the gravy train these are on.
Scroll down to register of members interests which was last updated 1 nov 21.
Marvel at the eye watering amounts of cash Theresa May gets for a 4 hr speech.

[wilts rover]

Take a look at theyworkforyou.com to get a taste of the gravy train these are on.
Scroll down to register of members interests which was last updated 1 nov 21.
Marvel at the eye watering amounts of cash Theresa May gets for a 4 hr speech.

Anybody who books Theresa May for a four hour speech deserves to be fleeced.

[albie]

More Cox-up;
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-geoffrey-cox-claims-1500-25448249

This bloke is way out of bounds, and CoCo can't deal with it because he is cut from the same cloth!