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Corruption or Coincidence?

Kits

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Just how often are our MP’s, EU MP’s, Lords, Police, OFCOM, ICO, BERR or other official body meant to look after the UK citizens human rights, privacy or even website owners intellectual property wined and dined by private business to gain favours.

A classic is this news sent to me since I had been talking about wine and dined EU members that had been posted in the discussion thread on a investor site for Phorm.

The quote below may be old news but since they didn't have any further action then this shows that unless caught some can manipulate the system for financial gain.




Ofcom execs 'wined and dined'


By Juliette Garside
Last Updated: 1:57AM BST 02 Apr 2007

The impartiality of communications industry watchdog Ofcom was being questioned last night, after it emerged that its two most senior radio executives attended a dinner party at the Hilton hotel in Dallas hosted by a company which weeks later won a bid to operate a UK radio station.

Ofcom's director of radio, Peter Davies, and its head of radio planning and licensing, Neil Stock, were among some 20 guests entertained by Absolute Radio International while attending a conference in Dallas last September.

At the time, Absolute was one of five companies bidding to operate a new station covering Oxford and South Oxfordshire. Davies and Stock both sit on Ofcom's radio licensing committee, and on October 12 that committee announced that Absolute had triumphed.

Are our MP's EU MP's OFCOM BERR or ICO also having this type of treattment to allow such as Phorm to break the laws and intercept private communication.
 
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