Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister

[tobyjugg2]

On 05/02/2022 at 19:28, tobyjugg2 said:

Profiting from others misery and destitution in expectation of extended dividends

 

Energy stocks (.FTNMX601010) outperformed, rising 3.8% to their highest level in nearly two years as oil prices extended gains on U.S. supply concerns amid frigid U.S. weather and ongoing political turmoil.

 

On 09/02/2022 at 09:04, tobyjugg2 said:

 

BP posted gargantuan profits of £13bn last year – but has paid £0 (zero, nil, nada ) tax in the UK for the past five, according to research by Uplift and first reported by Channel 4 News. BP, whose chief executive previously described the pandemic as a “cash machine” for the company, is also extracting billions of pounds from the UK taxpayer to help decommission its operations in the North Sea.

 

PLUS:

"extracting billions of pounds from the UK taxpayer to help decommission its operations in the North Sea."

 

 

and on Top of Sunak giving banks billions in tax payer money in tax relief

 

"London’s big four banks – HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest – are expected to pay out bonuses totalling more than £4bn when they report their annual results in the next fortnight.

Combined, the banks’ annual profits are expected to exceed £34bn – the most since 2007 in the boom before the financial crisis.

The bankers’ huge paydays come days after the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, who was paid £575,538 last year, called on workers across the country not to ask their bosses for pay rises to help control inflation, which has soared to a 30-year high of 5.4%."

 

 

‘We’ve had a run on champagne:’ Biggest UK banker bonuses since financial crash | Executive pay and bonuses | The Guardian

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Bumper payouts are ‘kick in the teeth for everyone else suffering with the cost of living crisis’, say critics

 

 

So we can see whos getting the money that could have been used a thousand times over to feed hungry UK kids and keep them warm...

 

[honeybee13]

Letter published in the Times yesterday. It's a brilliant observation, someone should tell the Met...

 

[tobyjugg2]

and 'Global Britain'

Boris the Liar 'pledges' 25 million quid to "strengthen security in the Indo-Pacific as part of a pact with Australia" to counter the £Billions China is spending in the region

 

That would be EITHER:

 

* One wing off a Typhoon and a couple of hellfires

OR

* Those two jeeps and a squad of squadies with some RPGs that Truss shipped to Stockholm guarding Ukraines' flank shipped over to Australia for 18 months or so

 

.. maybe even both if the Australians contribute to their support while there.

.. perhaps to guard Alice springs against a Chines Fleet or two and the contents of couple of Chinese built military Islands

 

I'm sure the Australians are as unimpressed as I am.

 

UK pledges $34 mln to enhance security in Indo-Pacific

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Britain committed 25 million pounds ($34 million) to strengthen security in the Indo-Pacific as part of a pact with Australia, and leaders of both...

 

 

 

.. Its rumored Botswana has pledged £100M and a couple of old PC's for cyber-security to Trump Johnson

 

Edited February 17, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

"In between meetings in Saudi Arabia, Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, announced the removal of legal restrictions designed to prevent the media mogul from interfering in the editorial independence of the Times and the Sunday Times, hurdles put in place by Margaret Thatcher when he bought the newspapers in 1981."

 

"Murdoch has long railed against these restrictions, which he described as state interference, but which allowed him to avoid a deal-busting referral. It took until July 2019 for his complaints to gain any traction, the same month Boris Johnson became prime minister."

 

 

"The revolving door between Downing Street and Fleet Street has already seen Johnson’s director of communications become deputy editor-in-chief of the Sun, a paper which failed to break any major “partygate” stories.

Some publications featured extensive stories and headlines about the partying prime minister,

while others – particularly on the Sun, the Express and the Mail – have struggled to get these stories on their own front pages."

 

Rupert Murdoch waited years for a pliant government – now he’s got one | Jane Martinson | The Guardian

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The mogul knows how and when to flex his muscles, and this has allowed him to capitalise on Boris Johnson’s weakness, says Guardian columnist...

 

[honeybee13]

I doubt if it will end well, TJ. Murdoch has enough influence already.

[tobyjugg2]

Johnson and Murdock - neither fit for positions of responsibility or fit people to run a shoeshine IMO,

let alone a company, news empire or country, and I have no doubts whatsoever that even Thatcher would agree with that.

 

Johnson has a brother who apparently thinks hes ****

Murdock a son ..

 

Exactly the people we DON'T want in positions of influence.

[tobyjugg2]

Also needs to be gone before any real change can occur

 

 

[tobyjugg2]

Well, so much for the Met blocking release of the information in Grays report touted as based on not allowing the guilty to work out excuses ...

 

Boris Johnson allowed to read Partygate evidence before answering police questions

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Sue Gray allows limited access to her notes to everyone at No 10 under investigation – including the prime minister

 

[honeybee13]

That really doesn't sound right to me. What happened to other civilian defendants of FPNs, were they allowed to see evidence before they replied?

[tobyjugg2]

I more concerned with the simple fact that the excuses the Met used to prevent grays report being shown (whoever ordered the Met to do that) aka they didn't want the accused access to the info - is suddenly 'no longer applicable

 

If that is the case, then full report now please as the presented justifications for NOT releasing it have proven invalid ... or FALSE

Edited February 18, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Right, I see what you mean.

[honeybee13]

This could make the UK look very bad and I don't think it will go down well with our European neighbours.

 

Alexander Downer is the wrong choice to review the UK’s border force – Australia’s record is nothing to emulate | Daniel Ghezelbash | The Guardian

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Downer’s appointment is clearly a political move aimed at boosting Boris Johnson’s government’s chances of re-election

 

[tobyjugg2]

The EU isn't who he's trying to align with in the hopes of giving away even more UK business and money

[tobyjugg2]

Johnson 'Tories attacking a large portion of their base:

 

Tory MPs raise fears over free prescription cuts in England for ages 60-65 | NHS | The Guardian

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As ministers look for ways to stem rising NHS costs, some warn against the move during a cost of living crisis

 

[tobyjugg2]

Breaking rumors:

 

Rumors that there is might be a big brexit bonus (for a few) as a major international bank may be considering moving to a locale (even) more in line with its philosophy

 

 

Revealed: Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians | Credit Suisse | The Guardian

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Massive leak reveals Swiss bank’s accounts have been used by an array of high-risk clients over several decades

 

Edited February 21, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[tobyjugg2]

as Johnson and Sunak usher back in the age where insurance companies could squander peoples money and go bust leaving those with policies ... with just about the worth of the paper they are written on

 

Britain to unlock 'billions of pounds' by easing insurance capital rules

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Britain will unlock "tens of billions of pounds" of insurance sector capital that should boost the economy through infrastructure investment...

 

[honeybee13]

They're desperate to get hold of money from insurers - and pension funds - because they haven't managed the economy properly to have this capital to invest. 'Infrastructure' sounds like levelling up.

 

I don't agree with this and think they will just take risks with other people's money, without giving them the choice.

[unclebulgaria67]

£95 billion is actually not very much money to unlock.

 

The risk is not worth taking, as Government will end up underwriting the failed companies, if there is some major event they don't have the finances to deal with.

 

There was an interesting discussion on the radio recently, where a property investment expert, was saying that investment companies were buying large numbers of new and existing houses. And this was one of the reasons for the lack of supply and quick sales.  They then let the houses out, causing rents to increase as large property owners take control of the rental market.

[tobyjugg2]

3 hours ago, unclebulgaria67 said:

£95 billion is actually not very much money to unlock.

 

Depends how many 'Pals benefit .. you can be sure the taxpayer or policy holders wont

 

3 hours ago, unclebulgaria67 said:

 

The risk is not worth taking, as Government will end up underwriting the failed companies, if there is some major event they don't have the finances to deal with.

 

You mean Taxpayer - which is what the riles they are removing were implemented to prevent

- asset strip and collapse the debt on taxpayers after profits go in bonuses and dividends (and no dividends for policy holders - just 90% loss)

 

3 hours ago, unclebulgaria67 said:

 

There was an interesting discussion on the radio recently, where a property investment expert, was saying that investment companies were buying large numbers of new and existing houses. And this was one of the reasons for the lack of supply and quick sales.  They then let the houses out, causing rents to increase as large property owners take control of the rental market.

 

Dont doubt it.

[honeybee13]

The PMs 'onslaught' of sanctions (I can't remember how he said it) turns out to be sanctions light, with five banks and three individuals affected.

[tobyjugg2]

Well, some of the Russian money representatives are on Johnsons 'advisory panel' or whatever they call it at the moment aren;t they.

 

In a Russian accent:

Well Johnson, the first thing to suffer from sanctions on Russian money is your donations don't you?

 

The corrupt liar:

I can assure you it just be bluster and a token with nothing significant done

 

Times is paywalled so:

Government Has 'Serious Questions To Answer' Over Tory Donor Claims, Says Labour

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'Cash for access' accusations after super-rich donors given places on a secret advisory board.

 

[tobyjugg2]

Britain really is the laughing stock of the world, only mitigated by the worlds contempt at Johnson antics, and the UK public putting up with it.

 

Like that pitiful sum to help Australia 'dissuade the Chinese expansion in the Pacific:

 

Overheard on an Australian military base:

'Hey Bruce', Shouts Bruces Sargent toward the dunny ' The poncy pommy drongo has donated about half toward our dunny paper'

Bruce shouts back '.. with the front page of the Express in his hand ... 'he already was Sarge he already was' ..

[tobyjugg2]

Labour accuses Boris Johnson of creating a ‘cash-for-access culture’ | Anneliese Dodds | The Guardian

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Exclusive: letter from Anneliese Dodds says PM allowed Tory chair to ‘blur the lines to boost party coffers’

 

 

" There were 12 figures named who had been invited to meetings since the Covid-19 crisis began in March 2020, including Lubov Chernukhin, a former banker who is the wife of Vladimir Putin’s former deputy finance minister Vladimir Chernukhin.

In total, the board members were said to have donated £22m to the Conservatives, including £9.9m since Johnson became prime minister less than two years ago.

The two figures central in putting the board together and maintaining its access were named by the Sunday Times as Lord Lister, Johnson’s former chief strategic adviser, and Ben Elliot, the Conservative party’s co-chair."

 

"Anneliese Dodds, Labour’s chair, said the UK had become “a laundromat for kleptocrats’ dirty money” and that “our institutions have been damaged and an entire cottage industry has grown up dedicated to lobbying for and protecting those close to the Kremlin”.

Edited February 22, 2022 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

A reminder from last year. The select committee said the Tory government didn't find any evidence of Russian interference in the electoral process because they acitively didn't look.

 

UK 'took eye off ball' over Russia threat - BBC News

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Parliamentary committee releases damning report detailing Russian interference in British politics.

 

[unclebulgaria67]

Kier Starmer should ask Boris how many tennis games he has played against Russians. And did the Tory party receive any donations following these games ?