this video is brought to you by the third edition of brexit the colouring book relive the whole process the tldr team's analysis get an exclusive video have a little color and support the channel by picking up a copy and get a never for sale number NUMBER_TOKEN pin free with your purchase by clicking the link in the description in the aftermath of the owen patterson saga we thought it'd be a good time to do a video documenting all the times the current government has ignored instructions from an independent body because there have been a fair few cases in the last couple of years so before we get into it some disclaimers first this isn't intended as a partisan video we're not just doing this video as a hit piece on the conservatives we do it whoever was in power we're just doing it because this sort of thing is important to cover whatever side of the political aisle it comes from because it implies a rebalancing of power in british politics which the public should know about in ignoring and undermining independent checks and balances the government is becoming more powerful second to make sure this video is fair we're not just going to do a list of all the quote sleazy things the government has done we're only going to look at cases where the government has ignored and undermined an independent body again sticking to this relatively strict definition will hopefully help us to avoid any bias anyway disclaimers aside let's get into it over the last week the conservatives have been hit by at least a couple of sleaze scandals first there was the owen patterson affair when the government tried to protect conservative mp owen patterson after the standards commission recommended he be suspended for NUMBER_TOKEN days and second there was the report in the sunday times that suggested the conservatives have been selling peerages to their treasurers for three million quid a pop this is translated into a drop in support for the conservatives who according to the most recent ipsos maori poll and now actually a point behind labour when asked about it on andrew marr kierstama insisted that these weren't just isolated incidents boris johnson and the conservatives actually have a habit of this sort of thing owen patterson was lobbying the government on behalf of a company that was paying him hundreds of thousands of pounds and along comes the prime minister instead of upholding standards he orders him his mps to to protect his mate and rip up the whole system and it's not a one-off this prime minister has form he has pattern there are so many examples priti patel the home secretary was found to have breached the minister of code what happened she stayed the adviser had to go the electoral commission started looking at the government what happened the government's trying to clip its wings and now there's been this outrageous undermining of catherine stone the independent commissioner in this very case it's a pattern of behavior and well stammer has a point this isn't a partisan point it's simply a fact that boris johnson's government has a track record of ignoring and undermining independent actors now to be fair occasionally it might be appropriate to ignore independent advice no process is perfect after all but when it becomes a regular occurrence then chances are you're not really worried about the
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