This morning's Telegraph has an interesting story about Chris Huhne and his share interests in surveillance equipment. As I noted in May, these shares contradicted his first leadership bid manifesto commitment "to roll back [Labour's] security-obsessed surveillance state", and as the Telegraph points out, it also contradicts his current manifesto.The Telegraph has also gone further and discovered that the surveillance company (in which Huhne's share are worth £250,000) has Tesco as a major client, a company that in recent weeks Huhne has been publicly attacking. Whoops!
A point of clarification on the Telegraph piece though is that they appear to suggest that the share were revealed by the Register published on October 23rd this year. This is not actually the case and they have been in previous published registers for some months.
1 comment:
Be fair Dizzy - if his political statements were in favour of greater surveillance, and if he was waxing lyrical about Tesco (as a major customer of the company in whom he holds shares) this would be a disgrace - corrupt, self-interested profiteering from the political platform.
The he does not change his views because they may conflict with his self-interest should be applauded surely?
I think he should sell the shares, but I don't think he's done anything wrong here - in fact, quite the opposite. Am I missing something?
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