AIBU to think that in the UK we have never seen corruption on such a huge scale before? (I’m thinking Robert Jenrick saving that developer £45m tax, the Cameron lobbying scandal, Test & Trace £37bn, the Paterson bloke??, Boris giving peerages to Tory donors etc. Sorry I have prob left a few things out. But you get the gist).
Politics aside for a moment — have we seen this SCALE of corruption before in the UK?
What historical scandals have been documented in previous generations?
Was it this bad under Henry 8th?
I’m wondering how there’s just SO MUCH corruption with this government in the 2020s? Who normally oversees this? Who is the govt answerable to anyway? Why is it happening on such a huge scale?
Have the press got less interested in corruption? Are the bbc less able to challenge?
There certainly seems to be an apathy (I think) around current corruption levels. I’ve seen this reluctant acceptance before - in India, in Cambodia. Not here. But I’m mid 40s so maybe that’s why.
I remember previous cash for peerages scandals, hideous MPs expenses, bit nothing like what is happening now.
Who is good at economics and history and knows about this?