Quote ="Walshovski"A few MP's filling in an extra expense form is alot different from the media effectively being controlled by the state like in Italy and Russia. Britain on the whole is relatively corruption free compared to most states despite the low esteem people hold our politicians in. The Sunday Times and the BBC were completely justified in trying to expose corruption within FIFA and any claim by the Murdoch press/tv to the contrary should be totally ignored. If getting the World Cup means cosying up to Jack Warner, Sepp Blatter and the like than we are better off without it. As for the Beeb working against the national interest how do you define what the national interest is?'"
Don’t get me wrong I largely agree with you, the whole thing stinks; it’s the hypocrisy I can’t stand. We now have a situation where fifteen million pounds has been spent, the Prime Minister is kissing backsides trying to win favour and we’re left looking like idiots. The corruption of Fifa and the bidding process would have been well known when the decision to bid was submitted, we should have withdrawn our bid citing the reasons or not entered one at all.
I define national interests as something that could have created jobs, brought tourists dollars in and given people something to look forward to. I don’t wish to see shady practises covered up, but their timing of the reporting could have been altered to at least support what little chance we had.
