Michael Meacher MP

The key point about the weekend revelations over Adam Werrity is not just, or even mainly, whether Fox keeps his job or not.   The real scandal is that Werrity was able to inveigle himself into so many compromising situations without anyone calling a stop to it or blowing the whistle.   Indeed had it not been for the legal spat between Harvey Boulter, a private equity boss and commercial partner of MoD, and the US conglomerate 3M which led to court proceedings in the US, even now it is likely that no alarm would have been raised about the Werrity affair.   What is above all shocking is that despite all the previous revelations about lobbyists and defence contracts, nothing has been done to regulate lobbyists at Westminster.   Even worse, when this latest affair has blown over, will anything be done even then? (more…)