Comments by "LW1zFog" (@lw1zfog) on "Boris Johnson 'will expect a peerage' in exchange for helping Rishi Sunak win Northern seats" video.

  1. “For anyone with any sense, who was in trouble, would come to the whips and tell them the truth, and say now, I’m in a jam, can you help ? It might be debt, it might be… a scandal involving small boys, or any kind of scandal in which, erm er, a member seemed likely to be mixed up in, they’d come and ask if we could help and if we could, we did. And we would do everything we can because we would store up brownie points… and if I mean, that sounds a pretty, pretty nasty reason, but it’s one of the reasons because if we could get a chap out of trouble then, he will do as we ask forever more.” Sir Tim Fortescue, Conservative party whip 1970 - 1973, interviewed in 1995 BBC documentary titled “Westminster’s Secret Service”.
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