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Jones is in for a pound

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in for a pound

When is a pound not a pound?

Well, in the language of the modern Westminster operator, it appears the answer is straightforward: when it arrives not as cash but as a donation or a carefully arranged suite of professional services, staffed offices, and corporate-sponsored expertise. The defence, when challenged, is always the same. Technical. Legalistic. Designed to be true in the narrowest possible sense while being profoundly false in every sense that actually matters.

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