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The ‘Fantastically Corrupt’ David Cameron and The Great Lobbying Scandal.
The supremely tragic irony of the former British prime minister.
Back in 2016, there was a footage of David Cameron speaking to her majesty, about the cabinet meeting of the day and the impending meetings with the Afghan and Nigerian heads of government, whom he described as being ‘ fantastically corrupt’. Those comments, at the time, went down very badly, with Nigerians all around the world, but those words have returned in 2021, to bite Britain’s former prime minister, in the derriere, in the most extraordinary way, imaginable.
Recently, it emerged that David Cameron, had been lobbying senior cabinet figures such as the Chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak(whom he sent text messages)and the health secretary, Matt Hancock, on behalf of his paymasters — Greensill Capital.
Lex Greensill, took an unpaid job as an unpaid adviser, with the Coalition government, back in the early 2010s. But by 2018, two years after leaving office, Mr. Cameron, had taken a job with Greensill, on a reasonable wage and not to…