Re: Data
"Nope - not even close"
Feel free to believe that. The corruption in the UK, and in Westminster in particular is endemic - the reason it doesn't show up in the Corruption Perceptions Index is because it's much more subtle and insidious than the ol' African-Dictator-with-a-Swiss-Bank-Account scenario.
The sci-fi writer Charles Stross observed that if Ernst Stavros Blofeld were real and alive in our world, he'd be running a First World Country, or large trans-national NGO. When the real criminals are world leaders with intelligence agencies and drones, we're all fucked.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
