Geoffrey Cox ‘earned MILLIONS from 2nd jobs & rented out taxpayer-paid flat’
One rule for us, no rules (and soon no votes) for the Tories
This is a comment piece by Rod Liddle
IMAGINE you’ve got this great, well-paid job with loads of leave. One day you tell your boss: “I think I’m going to spend the next two weeks in the Caribbean.
“I’m not taking holiday leave, just, you know, going. Oh, and I’ll be working for people who we, as a company, are trying to sue. Hope that’s all right.”
There is only one job in the country where you could get away with that behaviour. Being a Member of Parliament.
Any other job, your bosses would be utterly gobsmacked at the sheer nerve — and brazen greed — of your behaviour. And you’d be out on your ear, pronto.
That’s what the Tory MP Geoffrey Cox did. Swanned off to the British Virgin Islands to do some lawyerly work. Representing people fighting AGAINST the British Government. Missed loads of votes in the House of Commons. But couldn’t give a toss.
This great flatulent bag of wind has spoken just ONCE in the House of Commons this year.
He is paid £81,000 to do his job as an MP — more than double the national average wage. But he trousers far more — approaching a million quid — doing his private legal work. So his constituents in Torridge and West Devon can get stuffed.
Incredible, isn’t it?
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