MP Rupert Lowe indagato da Standards Watchdog
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceq7z421pwzo
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MP Rupert Lowe indagato da Standards Watchdog
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceq7z421pwzo
di ConsciousStop
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The BBC understands it is for allegedly failing to register hundreds of thousands of pounds raised in donations to fund his independent “Rape Gang Inquiry”.
More than £600,000 has been donated to a Crowdfunder started by Lowe in March to support a national inquiry into gang-based sexual exploitation across the UK. So far, Lowe has not declared any of the money on his MPs’ register.
Loathe to defend him, but, this will depend on the type of crowd funding. If there was a target then if the target isn’t reached by the deadline all the donations are returned back.
If nothing has actually been received or drawn down yet then there wouldn’t be anything to declare as the platform holds the funds still and it’s more like a pledge.
It hit its goal months ago and the page literally says Successfully funded, £617k raised. That means the funds have been released not sitting in limbo. So yeah he should’ve declared it.
But let’s not pretend this isn’t political too. He’s exposing grooming gangs. A topic the establishment has bent over backwards to avoid for years. Now he raises £600k from the public to do the job the state Won’t and suddenly he’s under investigation?
If he’s pocketing the money which he isn’t then fair play investigate him. But if this is just about some late paperwork while he digs into one of the most covered up scandals in modern Britain it reeks of retaliation. This doesn’t look like corruption, looks like disruption and they don’t like it.
Say what you will about Rupert Lowe, he’s not everyone’s cup of tea particularly the way the political winds blow in this sub. But the Parliamentary standards investigation into his Rape Gang Inquiry donations feels like yet another example of the political establishment punishing someone for daring to tackle a deeply uncomfortable issue outside official channels.
So Lowe sets up a privately funded inquiry into grooming gangs in March, before the government announced their own inquiry. He then raised over £600,000 from the public, people who clearly believe this issue hasn’t been properly addressed. Amazingly some donations exceeded the £1,500 threshold for registering, and yes, that should’ve been formally declared. But the Crowdfunder page explicitly said such donations would be made public in the MPs’ register. So it’s not like he was trying to hide it.
Now, suddenly there’s a formal investigation. Because he didn’t declare the donations fast enough? Meanwhile, actual corruption from undeclared lobbying to dodgy PPE contracts and gambling companies hidden behind unknown unknown personal names working for said companies gets buried or delayed for years.
This feels less like a serious breach and more like a technicality being used to discredit someone the political class finds inconvenient. He’s off-message he is refusing to quietly go away after leaving Reform.
To be honest I doubt the issue of gang-based exploitation that has been politically toxic for years. Multiple governments of all stripes have dragged their feet, not just the current Labour one. If anything, Lowe’s inquiry is shining a spotlight on an area most politicians seem terrified to touch. That’s why people are supporting it with their own money.
Attacking him for doing what Parliament itself failed to do seems like a political stitch up.
Crazy how keen the government is to not investigate the rape gangs
Edit: to be clear this is Malicious attempt to stop independent investigation into a crime that would implicate the government and beyond. Go watch the Thick of It to understand the function of government inquiries!
It’s a private inquiry that they are trying to make politically motivated so they can try and control it. Lawfare on show again.
Seems like he’s maybe been stupid for not declaring it, but I don’t think there’s anything shady here beyond that yet. It will be interesting to see how the money raised is eventually spent though.
The only man that really cares about our children in parliament and of course they will do anything to silence his work because they don’t want the mountain unearthed!! Don’t let them grind you down Rupert
They’re all up to their eyeballs in corruption and back handers.
There should be no donation of any sort to any politician or party for any reason.
It’s funny how Reform has turned out exactly how their critics said it would.
He has 10 days to complete the paperwork.
People who think he’s going to embezzle funds from a rape gang inquiry are deluded.
What power does Rupert Lowe have in this investigation? This isn’t America, you can’t just launch an inquiry and say it’ll investigate what it needs to.
This is how trials collapse. This is how predators escape justice. Lowe has taken private donations and has no idea how he would spend them in this instance, since he can’t exactly bung a few grand to a police force to make them look into things.
It’s pure theatre, and people sending him money rather than doing something that might actually change things have been swindled too
See the media for control council already attacking those who wanted something done about rape gangs.
Wake up people. Put your hate for reform aside and start asking why we have such a reluctance to look into rape gangs.