{"id":976,"date":"2005-12-09T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/09\/people-in-glass-houses-etc\/"},"modified":"2005-12-09T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T10:15:00","slug":"people-in-glass-houses-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/people-in-glass-houses-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"People in glass houses etc…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rejoice! There’s a new Bribery consultation paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Fiona Mactaggart):<\/b> I<\/a> am<\/a> pleased<\/a> to<\/a> announce<\/a> the<\/a> publication<\/a> today<\/a> of<\/a> the<\/a> Government’s<\/a> consultation<\/a> paper<\/a> on<\/a> reform<\/a> of<\/a> the<\/a> laws<\/a> of<\/a> bribery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although<\/a> the<\/a> crime<\/a> of<\/a> bribery<\/a> remains<\/a> relatively<\/a> rare<\/a> in<\/a> the<\/a> UK<\/a>, it<\/a> is<\/a> vital<\/a> that<\/a> we<\/a>, through<\/a> our<\/a> actions<\/a> and<\/a> principles<\/a>, remain<\/a> vigilant<\/a> and<\/a> promote<\/a> high<\/a> standards<\/a> of<\/a> propriety<\/a> at<\/a> home<\/a> and<\/a> abroad<\/a>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just as well we’re so good at avoiding corruption, bribery and fraud in the UK, eh? No wonder these new laws are focussed on “bribery of foreign public officials” – nothing like that would ever happen with our own public officials, would it?<\/p>\n

Oh, and it may be worth noting that these new (proposed) laws are now eight years late<\/a>…<\/p>\n

(Links courtesy of Labour Watch’s Labour Sleaze<\/a> page – which I didn’t even get halfway through in compiling that little lot…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rejoice! There’s a new Bribery consultation paper: “The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Fiona Mactaggart): I am pleased to announce the publication today of the Government’s consultation paper on reform of the laws of bribery. Although the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}