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> In 2013, Peter Hendy, who was then the Commissioner of Transport for London, was accused of engaging in a nine-month extramarital affair with Rachael Grundy, a call girl who charged £140 per hour. Grundy alleged that Hendy provided her with several Oyster cards loaded with £10 as gifts

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hendy

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The author name that added this section is interesting too. Way to get your own back ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Hendy&diff=...

Hope that doesn't come back to bite him, I'm sure if he mentioned it in one of his streams any one of us in the community would've happily updated the page.

Lol, there's even more classy things about him on there:

> During 2014, Hendy reportedly spent over £1,200 in taxpayer-provided money on lunches and dinners, including on one occasion more than £90 in alcohol.

And that despite a 650k salary - as if he couldn't afford to get wasted on his own. What a disgrace.

Otoh regular public sector employees (from what I hear) don't even get free coffee at the office.

And us plebs are still massively subsiding the food and drink of UK MPs and Lords. As well as paying their rent and loads of other expenses, on top of a pretty decent salary. Why should they get drunk at tax payers expense? Funny how austerity always affects the poorest, but doesn't touch the politicians.

£90 won't get you wasted in a restaurant in London.

His brother's a Baron. Of course this class fails upwards. Only the poor plebs will pay the price while those in power award each other CBEs and ignore warnings from the working class about impending disaster. See also the post office injustice and the Grenfell Tower fire.

Check out "The Fool" (2014):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3560686/

Thanks, I'll check it out. One of my friends and his brothers all left Russia (before the recent war) because of the corruption. The most depressing part of his stories is how apathetic most people are and how there is so little hope for change there.

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