I am a computer programmer. I have worked in a dozen different organisations over the past 20 years, including many banks.

I have never been involved with clients of those organisations, or with activities to do with expanding the organisations activities. I’ve never been in+

positions that give me privileged access to knowledge about market changing events, etc.

Nevertheless, I’ve had to do interminable training in each of those organisations so that I know my responsibilities related to insider trading, market manipulation, the receipt+

& giving of gifts that might be construed as bribery to receive a favourable outcome, & a whole bunch of stuff that I would *never* have had the opportunity to take part in.

How is it then, that MPs who are in the perfect position to do all of those things, not only seem+

unaware of the issues, but actually carry out these things in plain sight as if it’s a normal part of parliamentary business?

The corruption is not just present.

It’s nakedly institutionalised.

WTAF?

Correction. In the first tweet of this thread I said "I have never been involved ... with activities to do with expanding the organisations activities". That is not true. What I meant was that I have never been involved in activities to do with expanding the organisation's+

activities that would put me in a situation in which bribery or other kinds of corruption would be possible. It is of course the nature of the work I did in many of those organisations to help them to expand their business activities.