Boris Johnson!

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

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/12/boris-johnson-given-1m-donation-by-former-brexit-party-backer

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-F**king-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. ****, 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 😂

Nadine Dorries interiewing Boris Johnson on TalkTV could break all records for the channel with up to 35 people tuning in pic.twitter.com/VfMp6XqLjV

— dave ❄️ ? ? (@mrdavemacleod) January 27, 2023

Johnson said this week that Sharp knew nothing about his financial affairs before being given the BBC job…

The letter dated December 22 2020 states: “Given the imminent announcement of Richard Sharp as the new BBC chair, it is important that you no longer ask his advice about your personal financial matters."

2/8 pic.twitter.com/HTsV34ZPdJ

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) January 28, 2023

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.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/tom-swarbrick/swarbrick-sunday/boris-johnson-security-risk-lord-blunkett/

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.

Fighting talk from Boris. We’re going to give Labour the shock they deserve! pic.twitter.com/ATVBElyBTm

— Conservative Democratic Organisation (@ConservativeDOr) February 24, 2023

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?