At least the Tories aimed for higher backhanders than a pair of specs and some new strides.

[Mrs Ten Names]

Years ago in my MOT station, we had someone take their part 2 of the MOT testers licence. Someone from the ministry comes down and observes them carrying out a mot test. He carried out the test and passed. As the inspector was finalising the paperwork, I pulled out a bottle of scotch and gave it to him as a thank you. He absolutely refused to take it saying they weren’t allowed as it would constitute a bribe.

The two scenarios are so different I'm surprised you presented the comparison.

The MOT assessor is an assessor. He is judging the capability of the operator.

Lord Ali is already a Labour Peer. He already has a lot of influence both inside and outside of the upper house.
He was one of the youngest (if not the youngest) Peer. He came from a poor working background, and rose very quickly in his vocations.
He was appointed by TB for his achievements with young people in London.

Alli’s mother, a nurse, is an Indo-Trinidadian from Trinidad and Tobago, and his estranged father, a mechanic, is an Indo-Guyanese from Guyana. His mother was Hindu and his father Muslim
Alli started work as a junior researcher for a finance magazine,
Alli's third career, and the first in which he achieved public prominence, was in the television industry.
Alli's work has focused on gay rights, youth and education.

Waheed Alli, Baron Alli - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ajohn]

Lord Ali is a media man. He donates to the Labour party and takes a media view of Starmer - presentation so he helps fix some aspects of that. The glasses had a particular reason. Presentation is important in Ali's field.

Is the salary great when some one lives in No10 with a family. There are no complications?

Mrs T had a rich husband so no problems in that area. She had elocution training to soften her voice. They also made use of an ad agency.

 

[ajohn]

Isn't she (Reeves) talking about changing the fiscal rules to allow a higher amount of borrowing.
Todays news is she is trying to pressurize the OBR to upgrade their growth forecast to take into account things they are saying they will do, but haven't yet. (housebuilding).

That is actually what the Tory did. Essentially there are the basics that all use that are pretty strict and must show a drop in debt over 8 years. There also needs to be an error margin ie a surplus. That level was reduced under the Tory and now it seems to have disappeared. The reduction was covered on C4. What they did was add a couple of considers. Considers are not rules.

The only forecasts that the OBR have issued includes the long term risk one. This was ready before the election but they held it until afterwards. It was based on how things were under the Tory. Chances are anything else will have been as well. Another will crop up as a result of the budget. No one is going to talk about that until it's settled.

There are those around that just say change the fiscal rules. Well the worst case on the risk report was a debt to gdp ratio of 274% as thing were in a loosened state. Your probably hearing from them and others.

What Reeves intends to do appears to be cut the cloth to suite the income. Borrowing still has limitations due to views on exceeding 100% gdp. LOL Which GDP as there are 2 measures of that. C4 made an interesting comment on current GDP growth but I haven't had much luck tying it down.

The real left right view problem - exaggerated views at this level from both. It's all so simple etc when things in this area usually aren't. More often far from it. It often looks simple when parties are out of power as well and often relates to what might get them most votes even if there is no mileage in their views.