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Think you mean grift, this ponce has never done a hard day's work in his life.
Don't forget, he's allowed to claim £115k of UK taxpayers money for the rest of his life after he and Boris dismantled a bunch of the safety nets for UK society.
"Dole for me, not for thee."
I'd actually be in favour of this if they weren't allowed to take any other jobs afterwards. I reckon doing that removes a bunch of incentives to do nefarious things while in government
I am also generally in favour of it too, especially reading about world leaders back in the day that went destitute by having to pay for their own security.
It's just ironic that this fund was established for Thatcher, and generally is claimed by PM's who are independently wealthy.
Nah, it actually is graft, because it's specifically him using his government position to enrich himself, for instance by taking bribes. Grift is the general case of dishonest money, although there's usually a connotation of scam involved.
I mean I'd call bribes dishonest money