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A hiding to nothing surely.
Not necessarily.
Under current proposals, Mr Johnson could gain support when his constituency is redrawn to absorb some new Tory leaning areas
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“yeah someone contacted me so I passed it on”
That is misrepresenting how the VIP lane worked. Don’t fall for it.
Is it? Gove's account is basically saying that he didn't put Medpro into the VIP lane or recommend them, but only passed on Mone's "recommendation"/request for VIP lane. That's not quite the same. I don't know if he's telling the truth, but I don't see anything really conclusive.
Boris actually going to fight for his current seat, or hopeful of getting shifted to a more, erm, friendly reception somewhere else (Nadine Dories seat maybe)?
Fight for his current one I believe
For the first time in many years he's been posing for photo ops in his constituency, lately, which is unusual as he's usually on a donor funded holiday somewhere
Well, he doesn’t need the money for his legal bills…
Ah Boris’s Brexit Bonus,kerchung,kerchung.
Not bad for 26 hours work.
And yet there are still people out there who believe in Brexit. Jesus H Christ.
I guess he can afford to decorate a flat now.
Let's not beat about the bush, he's a ****.
I've been to various black tie & corporate conferences etc, but it's still beyond me why anyone would book Johnson - or is it just a 'money laundering' exercise?
I guess he can afford to decorate a flat now.
Whether he'll actually pay for anything himself is another matter.
He's still living rent-free in one of Tory Donor Lord Bamfords many properties. A luxury cottage in the Cotswolds, normally available to rent to mere mortals for £13,500 a month. Lovely!
I suppose you have to sort of respect such shameless freeloading really
is it just a ‘money laundering’ exercise?
It is the unspoken contract between political power and the rich, they need to be seen to provide wealth so the future incumbents in number 10 will continue to be compliant to their needs. It isn't so much a conspiracy just a corrupt system. And it's not new, but as wealth has been amassed at the top then the examples have got more extreme.
So, at one of the parties that wasn’t a party couples were properly at it (I’m going to the wrong parties)… “this is the most unsocially distanced party in the UK right now“ …and paperwork was shredded ahead of the enquiry. No one will be surprised. Links later if I can be bothered… unless others post some first.
So, at one of the parties that wasn’t a party couples were properly at it (I’m going to the wrong parties)… “this is the most unsocially distanced party in the UK right now“ …and paperwork was shredded ahead of the enquiry. No one will be surprised. Links later if I can be bothered… unless others post some first.
This will be the ultimate downfall of the idiot - either now, or heaven forbid, the loons work out how to get him back to No.10 - the constant dripfeed of this kind of stuff, and I'm 100% sure there are boatloads of this kinda gossip still unearthed.
Without a doubt he's so corrupt, arrogant & dishonest that scandal will dig him wherever he goes
Of course some people like a rogue & see it as a plus, but it wears thin
I'd heard from a contact within Tory HQ that it was known there were pics of drug use at the lockdown parties, be interesting if and when they come out.
I have often wondered why when clearly cocaine is used by a significant number of politicians the press do not chase it. The only explanation I have been given is the press are at it as well
Johnson obviously used cocaine. downbeat and penitent at one meeting. Upbeat and arrogant at the next. Clearly a few fat lines in between.
cocaine traces found all over the HOC including the bathroom next to Johnsons office. Cocaine traces found all over which ever of the "grace and favour" houses Truss and kwartang held a party at. Kwatangs behaviour at the queens funeral. Gove clearly off his head in a nightclub. etc etc
cocaine traces found all over the HOC including the bathroom next to Johnsons office. Cocaine traces found all over which ever of the “grace and favour” houses Truss and kwartang held a party at. Kwatangs behaviour at the queens funeral. Gove clearly off his head in a nightclub.
Mhairi Black "licking Kit Kat chocolate off her fingers" on the benches. Strange you've only listed examples of Tories.
You have said that one before scotroutes. I watched the clip. I am as sure as I can be that was not drugs.
I don't know of any others but it would be incredibly naive to think it was confined to the tories. Neverseen any evidence of others
I think there has been some admitted cannabis smokers in labour
I have often wondered why when clearly cocaine is used by a significant number of politicians the press do not chase it. The only explanation I have been given is the press are at it as well
Johnson obviously used cocaine. downbeat and penitent at one meeting. Upbeat and arrogant at the next. Clearly a few fat lines in between.
cocaine traces found all over the HOC including the bathroom next to Johnsons office. Cocaine traces found all over which ever of the “grace and favour” houses Truss and kwartang held a party at. Kwatangs behaviour at the queens funeral. Gove clearly off his head in a nightclub. etc etc
The message on illegal drugs from the conservatives is very clear. If you are rich and 'influential' it's ok, and just a bit of higinks and buffoonery.
If you are not part of the club, you should be locked up for life.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63115171
I have often wondered why when clearly cocaine is used by a significant number of politicians the press do not chase it.
The journalists, MPs and flunkies in thinktanks are all part of the same Westminster ecosystem. They’ll all have been racking up together.
How on earth do you think this all went ahead and then was covered up for as long as it was?
They’re all batting for the same team
They still are
If there was the political will to do so, surely MP's and the PM could all be subject to randomised drug tests?
Given the immense power in their hands I can't but help think it would be pretty bloody prudent from what we now know of one side of the house in particular.
Boris Johnson has received a donation of £1m from a Thai-based British businessman who had previously given millions of pounds to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, the newly released register of MPs’ interests has shown.
Now that is as clear a payoff as you can imagine
I am shocked that yet another member of the brexiteer business elite doesnt actually live in the UK.
TBH I'd love to see BJ's talk on Blockchain, I never realised he was so deeply into crypto 🙂
Johnson obviously used cocaine.
Sunak is on record as saying he's a coke addict and is never happier than when he's getting caned on coke from Mexico
I see the odious lump has just signed a book deal for a memoir about his time as PM.
Advance reported to be c£1 million.
Having denigrated the role and office of PM he and his publisher are showing nothing other than contempt for the public.
He's a ****.
EDIT - swear filter has replaced my anagram of watt with asterisks.
He'll have it ghost written for him which his rich mates will pay for, all he ll be expected to do is a few boozy lunches where he bloviates into a tape recorder. Job done
I'm surek there are plenty of good books to be written about his time as PM - but by far the least interesting account would be his own. A dishonest man's account of history - whats the use of that?
The hardest thing is going to be fitting his full title on the cover.
Boris Piccaninny Watermelon Letterbox Cake Buttboys Vampires Haircut Wall-Spaffer Spunk-Burster ****-Business ****-the-Families Get-Off-My-****ing-Laptop Girly-Swot Big-Girl’s-Blouse Chicken-frit Hulk-Smash Noseringed-Crusties Death-Humbug Technology-Lessons Surrender-Bullshit French-Turds Dog-Whistle Get-Stuffed FactcheckUK@CCHQ 88%-lies Get-Brexit-Done Bung-a-Bob-for-Big-Ben’s-Bongs Cocaine-Event Spiritual-Worth Three-Men-and-a-Dog Whatever-It-Takes I-Shook-Hands-With-Everyone Herd-Immunity I-Want-to-Thank-Po-Ling Squash-the-Sombrero Johnson.
A dishonest man’s account of history – whats the use of that?
As John Crace pointed out yesterday; you would definitely file it in the fiction section
Marina nails it again https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/27/british-politics-heroes-liz-truss-boris-johnson
The ranks of the betrayed grow ever larger, encompassing (but not limited to) such reverse luminaries as Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage. Acolytes of all the above believe their leaders’ visions have been betrayed by someone or other in one way or another, when the reality is they were undone by such trifles as “the voters”, “reality” and “the consequences of their own actions”.
That's a good dumping of words. Enjoyed that. But I'm now thinking about a possible run-off between Truss and Johnson to be chosen leader/PM again after the May elections and the coronation are out of the way. Who'd stand in the way? The rejected by the party members Sunak? They rejected by the party members Hunt? They'll be calls for one of these two winners to regain their rightful crown, while the nation watches on, gnashing their teeth, and shocked how out of touch the Conservatives are. Not a thought to take into the weekend... no matter how unlikely it is to happen (not that something being monumentally stupid really makes it unlikely in UK politics anymore).
As per the top of the page, it's not the nation gnashing its teeth.
An ex labour MP has been caught fiddling expenses to buy cocaine. Just not rich enough to keep uo
To be fair Jared O'Mara is clearly a deeply troubled person with some fairly serious medical issues, both physical and mental. It doesn't excuse his expense fiddling of course but it gives some context. And he left the Labour Party well over four years ago, long before the current court case.
Edit: He wasn't a Labour Party member during the period which the court was told he submitted false invoices.
An ex labour MP has been caught fiddling expenses to buy cocaine.
And….?
I suspect a lot of the present or recent cabinet (not least the subject of this thread) have been getting pretty heavily stuck into the nose-candy on a daily basis for years, and fiddling expenses is just par for the course
It’d explain a lot
I was accused earlier of only mentioning tories in relation to cocaine usage. Its obvious a lot of them are at the marching powder.
To be fair, I wonder how many jobs in modern society would benefit from pharmaceutical assistance. I know mine would, albeit not cocaine. Something that allowed you to maintain laser-like focus and concentration for 8 hours a day despite being beset by constant. ****ing, distraction. 😭😭
What was the drug all those American students were using to ace exams, Ritalin? Could make PMQs a bit dull right enough 😂
In other news: his biggest fan/stalker has got her own show on a channel that nobody watches and he’s her first guest 😂
https://twitter.com/davemacladd/status/1618982502034735104?s=46&t=Cpj05qtlmB2XB7l41iFlrg
Johnson said this week that Sharp knew nothing about his financial affairs before being given the BBC job…
https://twitter.com/gabriel_pogrund/status/1619396365817360387?s=21
Looks like Sunaks lot briefing / leaking against Johnson and Johnsons lot doing the same to Sunak
Surely there has to be some sort of "rule" about being so skint that you are trying to borrow £800k for personal finance. In charge of a country, paid a fair whack, trying to borrow £800k.
Surely there has to be some sort of “rule” about being so skint that you are trying to borrow £800k for personal finance. In charge of a country, paid a fair whack, trying to borrow £800k.
I think focusing on the shady deals - this odd arrangement of having to be introduced to some who'll guarantee a loan - literally having to have someone who trusts you with money head-hunted, or the convoluted way the flat redecoration was funded - we seem not to discuss why he's having to make them
He was in a well paid job - £150k is the 'salary' but the income is far greater than that as its on top of his MP salary for starters. He'd have known that as an ex prime minister he was set to get £100k per annum guaranteed for life. Prior to that his London Mayor job pays roughly the same as PM - and for some of the time getting an MP's salary in addition. He'll have had ministerial jobs on top of his MP salary plus the generous golden handshake for getting saked He was getting £2k and hour writing for the telegraph, big wedges of cash for speaking engagements and so on......
But needs to borrow money from sources other than, you know - a bank
Needs to have his holidays gifted to him
Needs to find strangers (all be it a stranger he's seemingly distantly related to) to guarantee a loan - the loan needs a guarantee despited his guaranteed lifetime income. He owns property in London and Oxford (renting out the latter for a hefty chunk) but presumably they're already up as security for some other debt, He moves in pretty wealthy and influential circles why's he not got a friend who can do that? - His dad's worth a few bob for started. Don't they trust him? Or has he already maxed them all out?
Johnson complained of being skint numerous times
My guess is all his alimony / spousal support payments and child maintenance payments where based on his outside earnings before he became PM which of course he had to drop. That and he aspires to a lifestyle beyond his means.
this of course makes him an easy target for corruption
His child maintenance bill is going to be epic, his last wife was a lawyer and she has 4 kids with him, (tho I think the all almost adults now?) the affair with an art dealer was another and he lost a court case while he was trying to deny paternity & then allegedly another one with the wife of an Italian banker, whilst mayor.
Plus 2 with his latest, private school fees are £30k a year...
Who knows what other debts, secrets or payoffs he's hiding
£1 million in speaking fees since Sept '22 plus his recently declared £500k advance for an autobiography.
The need for a guarantor for a chunky loan from an un-named lender suggests he couldn't (or wouldn't) offer any acceptable assets as collateral and/or he is seen as a bad risk.
As always with johnson, more questions than answers
private school fees are £30k a year…
£250k each for three public speaking gigs. Although if they were three speeches to the same audience his well-rehearsed turning up unprepared and pretending to improvise using the same jokes he always uses schtick would be spent on the first one so he'd had to come up with two new bits of material.
His child maintenance bill is going to be epic
I don't think it matters that much how many children you have does it? A settlement would normally be 12% of gross income for one kid, 16% for two or 19% for three or more - so 19% whether you're paying for 3 kids or 30 - no matter how many mothers are involved. The settlement is about the father's ability to pay not the recieptients ideas for spending the money
Surely there has to be some sort of “rule” about being so skint that you are trying to borrow £800k for personal finance. In charge of a country, paid a fair whack, trying to borrow £800k.
You think it's a loan? How quaint...
macruisekeen
I do wonder if the payments he has to make to wives, lovers and kids left behind were based on his previous income where he got bucketfuls of money for his column in the spectator and public speaking so to become PM his income went right down hence the skintness
Of course if you were really cynical he has expensive tastes and habits to keep up as well *wink*
this of course makes him an easy target for corruption
Johnson was well known as a security risk for years. His off-the-books meeting with Lebedev while Johnson was Foreign Secretary should have been enough to see him locked up for treason.
And now he’s been touted to replace Zahawi as party chairman, after Zahawi has been sacked by the ethics committee and for a breach of ministerial code. Yes you heard right, Boris corruption, lawbreaking and lying Johnson. You just cannot make it up!
Party Chairman? A little job for such a big …
I'm glad that those in real need can still access legal aid.
I’m just awaiting to see how the party gate investigation results gets spun.
All ready for Boris’s triumphant return.
Lol good luck with that Boris.
I’m just awaiting to see how the party gate investigation results gets spun.
I think we all know it'll be some variation of the 'conspiracy by the liberal elite to stop the will of the people' bollocks that has served him so well in the past.
He's definitely on manoeuvres. I note he's been doing a tour of constituencies. All the really Brexity ones like Stoke. In any sane country, the idea of him even having a crack at a return to number 10 would be absolutely laughable, but this country lost all semblance of sanity about 6 years ago. He still has widespread support within the party.
I think that it now has a certain air of inevitability about it. The catastrophic losses in the local elections in May being his official launch pad, but its clear that his campaign is well underway already
Is the application for the NATO job just about keeping polishing his name up ready for another run at PM? Or a plan B?
I’m glad that those in real need can still access legal aid.
Taxpayers are on the hook for another five-figure bill to cover Boris Johnson’s legal fees during the inquiry into his Partygate denials, as Rishi Sunak’s government prepares to extend support for the former prime minister for a second time.
Doubt this will end populist attacks on lawyers from the Tory benches.
I think that it now has a certain air of inevitability about it. The catastrophic losses in the local elections in May being his official launch pad, but its clear that his campaign is well underway already
Yep plenty of getting on with levelling up talk we’ll soon be back to the 3 word things again 🙂
I just don’t think the sloppy seconds pm could sell the BS as well as everyone’s favourite clown.
Is the application for the NATO job just about keeping polishing his name up ready for another run at PM?
Seems like a terrible place to work if you dont like turning up knowing what your brief is. But NATO does seems as good a place as any to bump into the next person to leave a wife for.
I wonder if we plotted all the three word slogans into what3words we’d find out he’s been drawing a massive cock and balls on the world map.
🤣
Hands.face.space is in the sea just of Llandudno
for Liz Truss fans 'wrong.wrong.wrong' is on the corner of Walworth Ave and E225th Street in Cleveland Ohio
If Sunak 'gets Brexit done' * as he's claiming
Johnson will throw an absolute shitfit
https://twitter.com/Sime0nStylites/status/1629557170298671114?t=freuVi5nXRCWEe8hX5cfPg&s=19
*we all know its BS
* the Americans? *business? Basically * everyone! That’s always been Johnson’s philosophy
He believes in nothing but his own self-interest. Whatever Sunak comes our with on Monday - and I doubt it’ll be anything major - Johnson will rally the credulous morons of the DUP and the ERG to denounce it and start what he hopes will be his glorious return to number 10
Any other considerations like *ing up the countries economy even more or wrecking the good Friday agreement don’t even register with him. Everything he does is 110% about him
I’m absolutely amazed that there are idiots who are so stupid as to trust him
Eyes are on the prize up here in Stafford - our sitting MP, niece to one Rees-Mogg, has been deselected by the locals. Making National News and the front pages everywhere no less.
Stafford, once something of a Parachute constituency for up-and-comings like Theo, now hot as a Lifeboat in the face of an Iceberg interface, sees BJ glad-handing up nearby in Stoke this week. Rumour mill churning locally wonders if BoJangles fancies a safe-seat oop Northish?
First Past The Post.
***.the.Americans?
is a modest nine bedroom Georgian Manor House in Oxfordshire
One of the Sunday papers is headlining on the cost of legal aid for all those pesky migrants...they maybe need a little closer to home....
Does the fly tipped sofa have an actual job title these days,or his he still trading under 'failed Prime Minister'.
Always nice to see how genuinely concerned he is for Ukraine and Norn Ireland 🙄
Does the fly tipped sofa have an actual job title
He is busy nowadays. MP, speech giver and author (of his memoirs. The Shakespeare he was paid handsomely for seems to have been sidelined for now). Surprised he isnt writing a column as well currently but that might clash with his memoirs.
When he is brought up by gammon relatives just say HE LIED TO THE QUEEN.
Always shuts them up.
Johnson has been busy rubbishing Sunak's deal with the EU for NI (otherwise known as cleaning up the worst of his ____). Sounds like he's given up on the idea of a return to the top job though... it's more a "everything would have been better if only you'd listened (very selectively) to me" self congratulatory thing... that's the impression I got from the clips I can find.
He's obviously massively pissed off that theres been no eruption of anger from the ERG/DUP for him to ride on the coat-tails of, so he's trying to create his own.
The trouble is that by now even the most unhinged of Brexiteer loons appear to be tired of it all. Even Boris looked like he's sick and tired of Boris by today. God knows the rest of us have had quite enough of his shit!
He's finished and he knows it!
I think this period will be looked upon by historians as the most debased and corrupt in the history of UK Governance. Lets hope so anyway
So I expect he'll now turn his attentions to the work of fiction that will be his memoirs and covering his arse and blaming others in all the upcoming parliamentary and public inquiries of which he's presently the subject.
Unfortunately we, the taxpayer, seem to be on the hook for paying for his legal fees, which I'm sure will amount to the equivalent of the GDP of Spain by the time he's done
covering his arse and blaming others
That's what clips of today's speech sounded like... manufacturing his legacy, rather than still aiming for a come back. Perhaps I was hearing what I wanted to hear... and that he's accepted that his time is up.