[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/29/peter-hendy-ex-network-rail-chair-threatened-firm-engineer-euston-criticism
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-nov-feb.html#21_January_2024_(Boeing_defects)
The UK's railroad minister, in his previous job, threatened to deny contracts arbitrarily to an engineering company unless it bullied a worker into ceasing to raise safety concerns. In response, the company fired him. I am not competent to judge the validity of those …
So folks the moral of this story is, if you are honest and hard working but want to get in to politics you have few prospects, if you are a patheitc slimeball who is in it for yourself and no one else, you will rise the ranks.
Not really want we want from our political class, there are some good, honest MP out there who are probably held back by the system.
