Thread by @ChampagneDosser

Around 2005 (roughly) there was a company called Connaught which was one of a few building companies involved in a massive refurb in Hackney.

Over £140M invested in the area.

The company got so big it was buying companies that were sub contracting works.

Balfour Beatty were already getting paid for works before they tendered for them.
The company I worked for were paid by the British Army, Thames Water and other water companies BEFORE we tendered for work.

This was done by backhanders.

Deutsche Bank was notorious for taking back handers for work.

Football tickets, holidays in Portugal could win jobs were hundreds of thousands.

The corruption I have seen is unreal on all levels from my brother stealing £30 from me on my 15th birthday for working nights at Stanmore Station to jobs worth hundreds of millions.

All greed based on some absolute vile individuals who have zero respect for others.

I did a job once for a close friend of #TonyBlair who actually robbed his own neighbours as the head of the residents association.

I made sure to leak this to his neighbours so he was forced to move.

I worked at a company that was overcharging local Governments by buying off their reps and then robbing their own workers and forcing them to take pay cuts because "there wasn't much work about" even though we always had work.

I have seen people fight over £10 a day more than someone else just to feel superior while earning peanuts compared to if they were self employed properly.

I had friends that were stealing around £40K from a building supplies company but the head office were unable to say anything because they were robbing Hackney Council hundreds of thousands of pounds a month.

I have friends that are "bag men" for professional sports people who used to sell tickets illegally to get money because many were paying so much tax.
These tickets were then used to buy off work contracts worth fortunes.

I know some people that worked at CTRL that were ripping off the Channel Crossing contract for fortunes. They would move on before a job finished and move those involved in accounts into other companies. They would sack accounts people implying it was down to them.

I saw plenty of dodgy dealings in Whitehall and MI6 which when I was there was just a bunch of public school boys up to all sorts at the tax payers expense.

I guess that's why I despise Conservatism so much, because it means established corruption and the only people held accountable are the most vulnerable.

If you concentrate on holding the most vulnerable, the young, old, sick and disabled to account and then respect politicians and business people without question then you are social road kill in my book.

You are a carbon copy conformist, unable to question the very people that define our society and all its ills.

You are a pointless existence, more so than anyone of those 100 or so people that die daily due to @Conservatives cuts.

If you are a politician then you better f*cking win me over when your dedication to improving our society.

If you are taking backhanders from weapons or fracking companies then goodbye.

We live in a society now that cannot afford to give so much to the wealthy and respect them like mugs.

We have to learn to tell them to work for their money just like the rest of us.

We need tighter rules on corruption.

We need to see MP's in prison for fraud or not disclosing important information which may affect their actions when representing their constituents.

We need to see their expenses tightened and more efficient and cost effective ways of these politicians working.

We have to have transparency, accountability and MORE prison time for corrupt politicians and business men.