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Just Robbed at Gun point

In one country we had advised the head of Customs to increase pay as part of an anti corruption initiative. He was aggrieved to find when I later rolled up and found a major corruption problem, but the fact of the matter was that the corruption brought in something like 5 times their income,

So just like our MPs then.....
 
So just like our MPs then.....

Yes, a major embarrassment to me when discussing corruption in the context of the Report on Africa, or the US Millenium initiative. "Who are you Westerners (sometimes Northerners) to talk?" type of thing. Life on the back foot!

What is the '-gate' name for the major thieving by our MPs?

Expensesgate? Greedgate? Fiddlegate? Commonsgate? Governmentgate? Snoughtsinthetroughgate?
 
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im afraid this is just another day in africa..

my uncle was shot down in his shop in Kenya recently.. he didnt survive.
 
im afraid this is just another day in africa..

my uncle was shot down in his shop in Kenya recently.. he didnt survive.

That is terrible, as is the attack on the family of Boss.

We are lucky to live in the UK.
It is still a great country (even though those in power regularly try hard to f**k the whole thing up).

Perhaps the next time some of us feel hard done to over something trivial, we should take a rain check.
 

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