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    Il Regno Unito scende a un nuovo minimo per l’indice di corruzione

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    2. davinist on

      I have employed 12 former MPs and lobbied 23 existing MPs (match tickets, fact finding trips and garden ponds) to ensure that next year Britain will be the top of the list.

      Sincerely,

      The British Govt.

    4. Nattekat on

      ‘New low’, but article says it’s 20th for the third year in a row. Good journalism. 

    6. jack5624 on

      Joe.co.uk totally not trying to push an agenda with that headline.

      Not only does the article say we have been 20th for the 3rd year in a row. We are above some equivalent nations like France.

    7. butwhywedothis on

      In American English, corruption is called as Lobbying.

    11. lokicramer on

      Direct correlation to mass immigration. 

      Look at crime statistic trends and compare them to migration/asylum policies year by year.

    12. MattR0se on

      I feel like “low on the corruption index” meaning “bad” is a bit misleading…

      Like for example, the poverty index is the other way round with higher index = higher poverty.

    16. FlakTotem on

      It’s disingenuous to link it to labour tbh. Especially after the ‘scandal’.

      The ‘perceptions’ the index is taking about are a bunch of reputable institutions (e.g, the world bank) and experts who have a view on the **country as a whole** rather than just the current party.

      Under the last 6 years of conservative rule we lost 9 points, with -1 for labours 3 years.

      It’s not that labour themselves have displayed corruption to this level, it’s that the UK itself has demonstrated that it’s systems weren’t robust enough when tested over recent years, and they haven’t reworked those systems to be more secure such that the opinions can move up again. Especially with the popularity of reform.

    17. kstacey on

      I too can make a website, then a Reddit account for said website, then push my website with posts to Reddit.

      Just some schmo pushing their own agenda here.

    18. Thwinkie on

      Would knock off a few more points if the Farage/Bannon/Epstein work on Brexit was given a fraction of the airtime…

    20. Significant-Cress289 on

      Perceiving Saudi Arabia less corrupt than Italy or Spain and the UAE that high up, equal to Belgium and above France is let’s say…..interesting.

    21. Smooth_Imagination on

      Id argue that this list to some extent reflects cultural acceptance and definitions of what is corrupt. The UK has certain issues that dont normally get called corruption, but probably should be. 

      I will compare one example which is the energy sector. The UK has amongst the highest energy prices in the world. When you break down why, you see it derrives from the mainly Tory policies to create psuedo-free markets that in fact lock in insane overcharging for things like back up power generation. In general the Tory model is best thought of as a system optimised to do ome thing above all else – to increase the number of shareholders and increase their dividend.  Worst of all, when they privatised it all, they sold it far below its market value to friends and supporters of the party, in exchange for support and future benefits. 

      Many of the benefactors are contributers to the party and to politicians. Sometimes the politicians have financial interests, and all can expect to be rewarded after their politics career ends. 

      So whilst they typically dont take direct payment, they knowingly act to their overall benefit. 

      Now lets consider  Ukraine. Public perceptioms of corruption may be exaggerated because they are more aware of it. Certain politicians in the past, and not today, were involved in gas and energy deals where they directly benefited from what was sold in Ukraine.

      Despite this, Britains energy cost about 3x what it does in Ukraine. 

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