The other thing that surprises me about Geidt is he dismisses a very basic fact of human relations, which is that if I or - let’s say, the PM - borrows from someone or from an institution, the balance of power between the person borrowing and the lender changes and...
significantly. This is not complicated stuff. Being in debt to someone or to an entity automatically creates an obligation to the lender by the borrower. The borrower becomes weaker relative to the lender. And in the case of a PM that must matter. The fact that...
Geidt says the PM didn’t know that the PM borrowed tens of thousands of pounds from Brownlow and the Tory Party - which is almost beyond belief - is neither here nor there. For several months the PM had a significant debt to Brownlow and to the Conservative Party. How...
can we have confidence in the system of declaring ministerial interests when the detail of those debts has still not been declared? Brownlow and the Tory Party did significant favours to the PM. The public interest would surely require the detail of those favours to be disclosed.
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