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if anything happened here, it happened in a foreign country to the detriment of foreign nationals, so it's not even peripherally related to any proper function of the UK parliament or government.
Do not understand. Representatives of a national, state funded body were involved. Also at least two who were given one of the highest honours possible by the UK head of state.
Edit: possibly I've failed to detect sarcasm?
chez_jay-
Representatives of a national, state funded body were involved. Also at least two who were given one of the highest honours possible by the UK head of state.
The answer to this is to stop wasting tax payers' money subsidising enterprises which should stand or fall on their own merit, and to abolish the honours system and the monarchy, relics of mediaeval feudalism which have no place in a civilised country. It's pretty rich for politicians to be grandstanding over this while presiding over and benefitting from the very system of corruption, nepotism and self-aggrandisement which creates the incentives which drive grubby little crooks to cheat at games.
The "honours" system is a who's who of devious venal self-serving little shits. In this report alone we have criticism of Lord Coe, Sir Mo, Sir Brad & Sir Dave. Every time there's a scandal, there's a peer of the realm or a knight or dame right at the head of it. It's not that people suddenly become grubby little crooks upon elevation or ennoblement, it's that the system was always designed to selectively embrace the grubbiest little crooks to the bosom of the bastard sons of robber barons who lay claim to the throne of England, where they can rape and pillage the serfdom to their hearts' content as long as they don't challenge the status quo
gbj_tester
I hope you're tutting over MPs sticking their noses into stuff which is absolutely none of their business. Firstly, cheating at games is not a matter with which a national government need concern itself, since games are a private contract between consenting adults who have their choice of civil tribunal to decide any disputes, and secondly if anything happened here, it happened in a foreign country to the detriment of foreign nationals, so it's not even peripherally related to any proper function of the UK parliament or government. Wiggins is a twat, Brailsford is a dick, but neither have done me any harm whereas politicians grandstanding over matters far outside their remit while neglecting their proper duties is bad for all of us.