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li10@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I can’t deal with the sheer amount of corruption in this government.

I subscribed to Private Eye and these days I don’t even read it anymore because it’s so genuinely depressing.

Reading about the blatant conflicts of interest actually makes me feel hopeless about the future of the country.

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0x815@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I feel somehow that’s not just in Britain, unfortunately.

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- agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  As a stupid American, I think you might be right. Not sure though. Hmm.
  
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- Sodis@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s the whole western world. Wealthy people amassed too much power and now protect their wealth against the interest of the many.
  
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  - 0x815@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    @Sodis
    
    It’s the whole western world.
    
    That’s not limited to the west. Corruption and nepotism may be harder to detect in some non-western countries with authoritarian regimes, opaque (or non-existent) public data and their crackdown on free speech, but it’s nevertheless a global phenomenon. If you published an article like that about a government rep in a dictatorship, you quickly ended up in jail or got killed.
    
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  - FatLegTed@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Asia has joined the chat, along with Africa and South America.
    
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merridew@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It feels very similar to the dying days of the Major government.

Hopefully this, too, will end in the Tories getting resoundingly booted from power.

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mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I can’t deal with the sheer amount of corruption in this government.

Is this just a general statement or are you suggesting that the newly appointed minister has broken corruption laws? 🤔

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