Politics Chat.

Thanks, but obviously 'violations of the ministerial code', dishonourable though they may be, won't cut any ice with public opinion. People will just see mentioning these as petty political point-scoring. Evidently, they don't lead to immediate sanctions, if any, and I'd guess like me most people wouldn't have heard of the existence of a ministerial code before it started to be referenced not too long ago.

What is clear is that these people are very careful not to take any money, with favours probably slated to be repaid at a much later date, and I think the only thing that really gets through, as in the sleaze of the 90s, is payment.

I was actually thinking more about the huge corruption scandal around COVID-19 procurement contracts, which is legalised corruption under 'emergency' powers.