British ex-government officials have sparked outrage in Britain by agreeing to advise a consultancy created by political activists for a fee of thousands of pounds. What the former ministers didn’t know: they fell for a bogus company allegedly based in South Korea…
As shown in a video released by the group Led by Donkeys (trailer in the tweet below), former Health Secretary Matt Hancock demanded a daily allowance of £10,000. Former Minister of Economic Affairs Kwasi Kwarteng demanded a minimum of 10,000 dollars (almost 9,300 euros) in monthly expenses.
The opposition Labor Party called the behavior “disgraceful”. The Conservative MPs are said to be using their “taxpayer-funded offices” to “line their pockets,” the criticism said. Influential MP Graham Brady, who according to the video asked for an annual fee of £60,000 (almost €68,000), told Sky News that he had followed parliament’s guidelines.
No salary caps
British MPs are not barred from second jobs, nor are there any salary caps. But the fact that politicians wanted to generate high revenues, while their constituents suffer from rising energy and food costs, has drawn criticism.
Under the leadership of Donkeys, a supposedly interested company called Hanseong had invented South Korea Consulting which plans to expand into England and Europe. A South Korean journalist posing as vice president for international relations spoke to several politicians via video about whether they could serve as advisers.
Led By Donkeys is a British political campaign group founded in December 2018 as an anti-Brexit group, but has also criticized other actions by the Conservative government.
Source: Krone
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