Quote Originally Posted by IainBusby View Post
I don't think any fair minded person would think they're any better or any worse than the ex-tory politicians, many of whom were lining up very lucrative directorships by doing the odd favour for their future colleagues in the boardrooms of Britain now and then whilst still in power.

A nose in one kind of trough is just the same as a nose in another kind of trough unless your so rabidly anti-labour that you can manage to find excuses for the tory politicians who do it but not for the labour politicians who do it. And Keith is of right when he says, "Given the chance, the majority of us would do the same".
Not so............ Directorships involve salaries paid for by private money so unless you are a shareholder you have no basis for complaint. However the bodies used by Socialists to cushion their failed comrades and cronies from the real world involve the payment of obscene salaries from the public purse - Quangos, NHS Trusts, Brussels etc

Most of us probably would do the same but it is only the chums and colleagues that are given the chance.

Many Labourite trough feeders eg Bungling Bob and the woman who is the new EU foreign supremo have never had a proper job in their lives. Look at Two Shags Prescott still on the MP payroll till May 2010, he's not spoken in the Commons since July 07 but he's now British representative to the Council of Europe with a big fat expense account