The Dave Thread - In Yo Face Elitists

[siablo14]

is there ballot harvesting going on?

is the media in america extremely biased against **********s and *************?

why can ********s claim an election was stolen, but repubilcans cant?

do you even know who started challenging and mainstreaming election result denials???

it didtn start with trump *****.

Who did it start with?

[siablo14]

“The public have the right to know what role money plays in our politics.”

This is what Steve Goodrich, the head of research and investigations at Transparency International UK said about the Guardian’s recent investigation into shares held ‘in secret’ by several dozen MPs or their close family members.

The shareholdings identified by our reporter, Henry Dyer, are all within companies that could be affected by legislation or new policy introduced by parliament.

The companies include, for example, the likes of oil and gas company BP; our investigation found that six MPs or their close family members have shares that in total are worth nearly a combined ?20,000.

Almost all of the holdings found are not strictly required to be publicly declared under parliamentary transparency rules requiring the disclosure of a shareholding in any single company worth more than ?0,000 or more than 15% of the company’s stock. In comparison, members of the US House of Representatives and Senate have to declare within 45 days any trade in stocks over $1,000.

This means an MP could trade ?9,999.99 in shares in a single company and not strictly be required to disclose the financial dealing. They could hold stakes of this level in several companies operating in the same sector and still not be strictly required to declare the holdings.

The difficulty in uncovering who owns shares in publicly listed companies in this country “renders them in effect secret” — which is “very concerning”, says Susan Hawley, the executive director of Spotlight on Corruption.

“If an MP has shares in a company affected by legislation going through parliament, there’s invariably a tension between them protecting their financial affairs and advancing the public good”, says Goodrich.

“Understanding who has skin in what game is essential to unpicking policy inertia, be it on housing, climate change or the cost of living.”