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@Wen It was Cameron 's extraordinarily poor political judgment that really stands out: permitting himself to become a poster-boy for a payday lender targeting NHS workers using procured (used avisedly) personal contact data to pressure-sell to them. Any underlying fraud on the part of the company aside, this man lacks the judgment to be in high office.
#Greensill

Sensing the #Tories may be (for now, at least) a spent #political force, its interesting to see organisations that had previously taken an officially sanguine view of #ToryCorruption starting to shift their stance.

The Serious Fraud Office has now decide that #DavidCameron's activities with #Greensill are indeed worthy of investigation a fraud, and its has become a 'matter of interest' to them.

The tide in officialdom is has started turning from reticence & distraction to focus & action...

"Down the Memory Hole it all goes: his brutal public service cuts, the scandal, slashing taxes for the richest, austerity, pandering to Faragism, and overseeing the Brexit debacle."
Oh yes, so now we have Foreign Secretary who puts party before country.

Meltdown – Bella Caledonia
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/11/

Bella Caledonia · Tory MeltdownThe Tory meltdown is offering up a roll-call of incompetent, self serving failures, people you’ve never heard of, and people you hoped you’d never hear of again. Such has the party&#821…

The #Guardian reminds us that the Swiss bank Credit Suisse has

‘been caught in corporate #espionage after hiring professional #spies to track outgoing executives; admitted to defrauding #investors as part of the Mozambique “tuna bonds” loan scandal, resulting in a fine worth more than £350m; and been embroiled in the #collapse of the lender #Greensill Capital and the US hedge fund #Archegos #Capital in 2021.’

theguardian.com/business/2023/
#bank #finance #Switzerland #svb

The GuardianCredit Suisse: what is happening at Swiss bank and should we be worried?By Kalyeena Makortoff
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Secondly, the Advisor should be looking at potential conflicts of interest in Mr Zahawi negotiating his tax deal with HMRC when he was Chancellor, and the minister responsible for UK tax.
theguardian.com/politics/live/

And thirdly, the Advisor should be looking at whether Mr Zahawi was honest about his contact with David Cameron over his lobbying work to get #greensill appointed as a COVID loan provider:
thetimes.co.uk/article/nadhim-