You and I both know that whatever you pay MPs, they'd still be looking to outside sources for ways to top up their salaries on the snide.
Power corrupts.
Whatever the issue, you simply cannot have MPs lobbying and using their highly privileged position of influence, when it directly benefits someone who is paying them. In many ways its worse and even more insidious than the 'cash for questions' scandal.
And I have even more anger for Johnson...
...and this benefited one of his "sponsors", Lynn Country Foods Ltd, whilst having a negative impact on one of their direct major competitors (Kerry's). Would he have lobbyed so fervently on their behalf - 14 times in 2 years - were he not trousering £4k a month from them ? Answers on a...
Boris knows well full this is tomorrows chip paper. Give it a few days, ride it out and it'll all be forgotten about soon enough, as everyone moves on to the next shitstorm.
He's built an entire career on it.