Comments on: Nice work http://www.chickyog.net/2006/05/15/nice-work/ The weblog of Brighton-based writer Justin McKeating Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:40:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tim Sewell http://www.chickyog.net/2006/05/15/nice-work/comment-page-1/#comment-6256 Tim Sewell Thu, 18 May 2006 12:07:09 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/05/15/nice-work/#comment-6256 Has to be said that the Tories have been doing this for decades but no-one really ever batted an eyelid becaus they were 'the party of business'. That's not to say that it doesn't annoy more when it's people who are at least nominally socialist who are stepping daintily from the cabinet office to the boardroom. 'Huge cheques and trebles all round', as the inspiring item came from the Eye. Has to be said that the Tories have been doing this for decades but no-one really ever batted an eyelid becaus they were ‘the party of business’. That’s not to say that it doesn’t annoy more when it’s people who are at least nominally socialist who are stepping daintily from the cabinet office to the boardroom. ‘Huge cheques and trebles all round’, as the inspiring item came from the Eye.

]]> By: Julian Todd http://www.chickyog.net/2006/05/15/nice-work/comment-page-1/#comment-5952 Julian Todd Mon, 15 May 2006 10:27:37 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2006/05/15/nice-work/#comment-5952 So it seems, according to <a href="http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=Ivor_Caplin&mpc=Hove" rel="nofollow"> publicwhip</a>. I'd very much like a structure for tracking these people after they leave Parliament for all the conflicts of interests they have left ripe for the picking from all the policies and laws they had passed while they were in the House. Their accountability does not end when they leave Parliament; it remains for as long as the laws they have helped to pass remain on the Statute Books. If a judge left the bench and joined a firm in which he had found in favour of in one of his court hearings, there would be an outrage. This should be no different. So it seems, according to publicwhip.

I’d very much like a structure for tracking these people after they leave Parliament for all the conflicts of interests they have left ripe for the picking from all the policies and laws they had passed while they were in the House. Their accountability does not end when they leave Parliament; it remains for as long as the laws they have helped to pass remain on the Statute Books.

If a judge left the bench and joined a firm in which he had found in favour of in one of his court hearings, there would be an outrage. This should be no different.

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