Claim ab83eb66Checked 09 Jul 2026
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“People in this country are much less tolerant of corruption than perhaps the Mediterranean countries are.”
Reasoning & Evidence09 Jul 2026
The claim is too broad to be cleanly true. There is evidence that the UK was less exposed to bribery than some southern European countries in the 2011 Eurobarometer: only 5 of 1,115 UK respondents said someone had asked or expected them to pay a bribe, compared with 15% in Greece and 12% in Italy. (kpk-rs.si) But the blanket cultural comparison is not generally supported: in a survey of attitudes toward bribe-taking, 86.2% of Italians versus 71.8% of people in Great Britain said accepting a bribe was "never justifiable," and the authors concluded Italians were significantly more opposed to bribery than the British. (researchgate.net) Sources: European Commission, Special Eurobarometer 374 "Corruption" (2011), https://www.kpk-rs.si/storage/uploads/e5b7f01f-f505-4782-81f4-25ff77cd8ae4/Eurobarometer_ebs_374_en.pdf; Hernandez & McGee, "Ethical Attitudes Toward Taking a Bribe: A Study of Four European Countries" (2012/2013), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/253237067_Ethical_Attitudes_Toward_Taking_a_Bribe_A_Study_of_Four_European_Countries.
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Oh, it’s much less corrupt, actually. You know, we are much less tolerant of corruption in this country than perhaps the Mediterranean countries are. There are some quite big cultural divides there.
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| [1] | kpk-rs.si |
| [2] | ourworldindata.org |
| [3] | ourworldindata.org |
| [4] | researchgate.net |