Rishi Sunak’s closest aide placed bet on election date days before announcement
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/12/rishi-sunaks-closest-aide-placed-bet-on-election-date-days-before-announcement?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Chump change, wouldn’t you put a bigger bet on if you knew the date
And maybe not do it under your own name
What a bell end
Literal fraud.
If a Labour candidate did something similar the Tories would be demanding the party cut ties with them.
Has Rishi Sunak made some kind of Brewsters millions type bet to see if he can get the number of Tory MPs into double figures in six weeks?
Really sums up the mindset of the people who make up this government.
He saw a way to be corrupt in the most basic and stupid way possible, and he couldn’t help himself.
Is it too much to hope this guy has completely screwed his political career?
Threw it away for 500 quid. He can’t even be trusted as a henchman now.
Must be the absolute first time this sort of betting has gone on in UK politics. Same as it’s a massive shocker footballers occasionally do the same thing and don’t get caught for it.
Screams laughing. Craig Williams, my ex-MP for Cardiff North.
Absolutely disastrous
So is it just a requirement of the Conservative party to be a thief, a liar, or a sex pest?
Even if I didn’t despise everything about their ideology and rhetoric, and even if they weren’t utterly incompetent at governing, I would still hate this pathetic party for the way they’ve normalised corruption. It’s just an everyday thing for them – if you ain’t scamming, you ain’t trying. Utterly despicable human beings.
I’m not one to defend the Tories but seems like the guy was just naive/improper rather than doing anything illegal – the odds were supposedly 4/1 so he made a whopping £400, surely nobody would chuck away their career for that? I don’t think even someone in Lidl would risk their job for £400 which buys you precisely zero these days – let alone a top political advisor. I would think differently if he’d put a £10k bet on.
Nothing to see here, all above board and you can trust the word of a Party that isn’t currently lying through it’s rancid arse about it’s opponents tax policy……….