Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister

[honeybee13]

It's all wrong, isn't it? Why have huge bonuses and dividends when they aren't doing their job properly. Good Law Project are involved in at least one court case about sewage in rivers.

 

What happens if the pollution carries to other countries in Europe?

[tobyjugg2]

They should be fined the equivalent of every single penny in profits, dividends and bonuses over the past 5 years as an absolute minimum. With the money put into repairing the damage - with all 'profits' (including director pay awards and bonuses and all dividends) fined until they have resolved the major issues.

 

If they go bust - good - fine all the directors anyway and bar them from holding high position.

 

These people are quite literally  poring doodoo into our environment because it profits them more to do so rather than clean it up as they are paid to.

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[tobyjugg2]

More allegations of seeming self serving corrupt or at least highly questionable dealings on the part of the 'Yorks.

Seems to me Andrew would perhaps make an appropriate king .. for Johnson ..

 

 

Duke of York’s daughter named in High Court litigation

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Princess Beatrice has been named in an affidavit given by Nebahat Isbilen, who has sued Selman Turk, a Turkish businessman based in London.

 

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[honeybee13]

So Partygate rumbles on. The ex-head of ethics at No10 is one of the 20 people fined by the Met.

 

And The Times is saying that parties were also held in Parliament and attended by ministers and staff.

[unclebulgaria67]

I am more concerned about the misleading of parliament that has occurred and is likely to continue while we have a Government led by someone who sees telling untruths as a political tactic.

 

Time for members of Conservative constituency associations to ensure their MP's are aware of their feelings on the current state of affairs.

[honeybee13]

I agree, misleading Parliament is unacceptable and it's very worrying that ministers seem to think they can lie to the public without any reprisals. Stephen Reicher had a good article on that at the weekend.

 

Boris Johnson wants you to forget Partygate. Don’t let him get away with it | Stephen Reicher | The Guardian

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The PM’s actions are a resigning matter: democracy is in peril when our leaders no longer care about being seen to lie, says psychologist Stephen...

 

[tobyjugg2]

In the space of a decade, Money Saving Expert founder Martin Lewis has gone from the man who shouts about two-for-one deals online to an accidental national saviour who tells desperate people how to avoid starvation and death by exposure.

 

Tories have made poverty our new normal

 

 

Opinion: Even Martin Lewis is out of ideas – poverty is our new normal

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In the space of a decade, the Money Saving Expert founder has gone from the man who shouts about two-for-one deals online to an accidental...

 

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[honeybee13]

I think Martin Lewis genuinely cares about this. I'm pleased he's speaking out about it.

 

 

[brassnecked]

Labour's potential own goal they pulled back on pdq that's not to sat the Tories won't we know all the useless parties lie.

Energy rationing not part of UK approach, minister says

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Grant Shapps says the policy is "not a route we want to go down" despite pressure on supplies.

 

[tobyjugg2]

No record profits for suppliers if its rationed ...

Unless the suppliers get paid the same for not supplying ...

[honeybee13]

There is that. I don't think this has been properly thought through.

 

France is coming out of a cold snap and has been asking people to turn down the heating by a degree, for example, to try and avoid power cuts.

[tobyjugg2]

If Johnson asked the UK public to do that while he was throwing champagne parties to woo his own MPs and flying back from last ditch climate talks .. to get his pal of a two week suspension by whipping his party to support corruption

.. let alone that it would reduce the profits of the captains of UK profiteering ... err industry

....

[honeybee13]

According to the Independent, Sunak's wife has claimed non-dom status so that she pays less tax in the UK.

 

Revealed: Rishi Sunak’s millionaire wife avoids tax through non-dom status

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Exclusive: Akshata Murthy could have saved millions of pounds in tax on foreign earnings over several years, sources claim

 

[unclebulgaria67]

Do you think the various teams in Government are briefing against each other ? Team Big Dog, Team Sunak and Team Truss.

 

Seems to me that since Boris faced being ousted and "save Big Dog" campaign was launched, that there has been a volume of negative media stories about those who might have taken part in a leadership contest.

[honeybee13]

Journos are pretty convinced they are briefing against each other, UB. Especially the Treasury vs no10, I've read.

 

You have to wonder what the Cabinet Office might be up to as well.

[brassnecked]

Like a nest of viper's at the moment, the price rises in fuel and food and the Mrs Sunak revelations will  go down like a cup of cold sick with many, as in He's all right jack as she can avoid tax.

[honeybee13]

Not a good look for a chancellor, is it?

[brassnecked]

A mammoth own goal and illustrating that its not only the Left that has Orwell's famed More Equal Animals at its heart.  If she is Non Dom, maybe people should ask Priti Useless to deport her. , not possible of course but might show the complacent ones the level public disgust at that situation.  Questions his fitness to be chancellor.

[honeybee13]

I had a slightly different thought about Patel but yours is right, of course. Is Mrs Sunak in the category of people who could have their British nationality stripped without being given a reason, if the proposed Bill goes through?

[tobyjugg2]

I'm not so bothered about the non-dom status of an indian national, who apparently isnt actually a UK citizen and apparently doesnt have a UK passport.

 

I'm not even that bothered about her largely owning UK companies. UK companies owned by and political funding coming from god knows who in 'british' tax havens is far more concerning to me

 

What I am concerned about is that tax relief is being given to the wealthy while the poorest get tax hikes, and that UK taxpayer money is being used to enrich the few while UK debt is at its highest and living standards at their lowest since ww2

the UK has been turned into a grab bag for populist mates and doners

- all under Sunak and Johnsons watch

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[brassnecked]

She is an Indian Citizen apparently India forbids Dual nationality.  Would a labour Home Secretary deport her as undesirable due to tax avoidance?

[unclebulgaria67]

Quite interesting that questions are now being raised "what was the point in Brexit ?" .  Even right wing journalists like Nick Ferrari are asking questions about Brexit and the damage it is doing to the UK economy.

 

Boris might think getting Brexit done is a positive for him, but actually if Brexit starts to look like a disaster, people will be blaming him for having sold them a dud !

 

 

 

 

[brassnecked]

He is being accused of deliveringa BRINO in the likes of the Express.

[tobyjugg2]

Damage done by Brexit? What damage

 

* Profits for energy companies are up record amounts while prices increase astronomically

* Water companies profits, dividends and bonus continue at record amounts - as (literally) does the doodoo being poured into UK waterways

* Inflation is outstripping wages 3 fold+ - actually reducing the worth and relative cost of wages while giving a headline of increasing wages - apart from the top few percent that is - they are getting massive increases.

* Planning permission to build railways and crappy housing everywhere except Tory MP's back yards well in place (inc HS2 northern lines)

* The richest of the rich have got considerably more rich

* Fracking and drilling for oil is back on the table with the costs and risks subsidised by the UK taxpayer and profits to the private sector

* Nuclear energy is back on the table without any efficiencies in build, rather reduction in safety measures and profits to the private sector with absolutely no benefits to the UK taxpayer for at least decades to come if ever.

* National debt with benefits (routed to the rich and pals) is at record levels squandered to their pals by this government, to be paid for by the taxpayer under future governments for decades

* MPs real jobs which their MP status enables has been confirmed as 'just the job'

* The nation with more in food poverty, energy poverty and absolute poverty than Dickens and with more of each every year - demonstrating the route to the future-past is well on track

 

 

ahh - you mean damage to the nation and citizens .. rather than benefits to those who drove it ...

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[tobyjugg2]

1 hour ago, brassnecked said:

She is an Indian Citizen apparently India forbids Dual nationality.  Would a labour Home Secretary deport her as undesirable due to tax avoidance?

 

Nerr

.. Patel might though with support from Truss

Alls fair in love and Tory power struggles