Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister

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Its probably a major reason why Brexit has failed miserably beyond even the warnings

The Brexit pigs cant fly when they wont pull their snouts out of the trough long enough to achieve something other than enriching themselves, and all we ever see is the other end.

 

Taxpayer paid MP and paid more lobbyist Owen Patterson told sky news he:

 “wouldn’t hesitate” to act in the same manner “tomorrow” and that he continues to work with (for?) the two firms.

 

 

Unrepentant ex-minister in lobbying sleaze row says he’d ‘do it again’

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The MP said that the standards commissioner did not interview any of his 17 witnesses

 

and the 17 'witnesses (his paymasters and involved chums?) submitted written testimony - which was considered

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More from D(r)owning (in sleeze) street:

 

Boris Johnson has admitted receiving a free holiday at a luxurious Spanish villa linked to Zac Goldsmith.

The property is marketed online for rentals, reportedly for as much as £25,000 a week

 

 

The register said: “The prime minister has a longstanding personal friendship with the Goldsmith family and, in that capacity, in October 2021 stayed in a holiday home in southern Spain which was provided free of charge by the Goldsmiths.

 

Johnson awarded (his  'longstanding personal friend') Goldsmith a peerage after the latter lost his Richmond seat in 2019, and allowed him to keep his job as an environment minister.

 

 

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Not just that HB, ALL the sleaze including PPE and awarding contracts to incompetent and not properly authorsied testin centers - let alone Johnson unlawfully proroguing parliament and lying at the dispatch box

It remains an attempt to get the sleaze investigations under sleazy liar Johnsons control

 

Paterson was just an excuse to try it on - if chancer Johnson got away with it - then win win.

The battle is still on.

 

 

Paterson:

 

 

 

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These dont seem to be having any problems exporting/importing meat to/from UK/Island of Ireland ....

Sad that they need to, but ... hey ... heads up frosty the gobshite

 

UK meat being sent to EU for butchering due to staff shortages

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‘It’s all a bit desperate,’ says industry chief as British producers send to Ireland and re-import for sale

 

 

yes, I realise its not processed ... but ...

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I see that at long last there is real pressure for an independent investigation in cash for lobbying, cash for contracts,  and cash for peerages (which is undoubtedly why Paterson resigned - on the promise of a peerage when the heat died down enough)

£3million quid to the Tories _  a peerage and money from the UK taxpayer for life .. and ongoing opportunities for payments from businesses

 

Adding to wasted taxpayer money for a private showing of new bond film, holidays for peerages, flying from COP to a male only privileged lunch at a private club, millions to PPE pals who supply faulty recalled testing kit lobbied for by Paterson ... while Johnson says 'let the f***ing bodies pile high .....  the list literally goes on and on

 

"The former (Tory) prime minister said it suggested Boris Johnson’s administration was “politically corrupt”"

 

 

 

New Tory sleaze row amid report £3m donors ‘get seats in Lords’

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All but one of the party’s 16 treasurers, and 22 biggest donors, have been offered peerages since 2010

 

‘Shameful’: John Major hits out at handling of Owen Paterson scandal | John Major | The Guardian

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Former PM said trying to shield MP from punishment suggested Boris Johnson’s government was ‘politically corrupt’

 

Boris Johnson sleaze crisis deepens amid pressure on Covid deals | Conservatives | The Guardian

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Sir John Major attacks PM’s actions as ‘shameful’ while poll shows slump in Tory support

 

Analysis: Boris Johnson's government in fresh swirl of murk and sleaze accusations

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Boris Johnson's government is mired in allegations of sleaze.

 

 

Boris Johnson sleaze disaster deepens amid strain on Covid offers | Conservatives - Newsplaneta

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The row over Tory sleaze reached new heights on Saturday night time as MPs demanded particulars of any lobbying by Owen Paterson of...

 

 

 

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Add to that the reports that the populist whips threatened 'new' Tory MP's with them losing funding for their constituencies if they didn't vote as demanded

Blackmail? Further misuse of taxpayer funds?,  both +corruption?

 

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and with reports that Frost is just stiring up trouble with the EU to cover for the corruption and abuses at home ..

I think its more complex than that

 

Johnson has nothing to lose and no morals. I think he's been looking to be kicked out for some time so he can walk away from the chaos he has generated

 

So If he starts a trade war with the EU he might think that

 

a) he can cover for his abuses, corruption and incompetence at home

I think he is wrong. The EU will completely cut off the UK while minimising the impact to the island of Ireland, so the main damage will be further damage to UK businesses - but Johnson has demonstrated he doesn't give a damn about that

 

b) The likely real fall back of a trade war with the EU

The UK will have little option but to bring forward all the changes Johnson wants for trade (what will we trade?) with the pacific region and start shipping in hormone injected and bleached chicken, beef and GM crops from America and Australia under 'emergency measures'

 

All of which will place the Uk as a powerless suplicant of the US, worse than we ever were @ WWII

 

No doubt he will try to include options in his 'emergency measures' to prevent Scotland and NI from seceding from the union.

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seems a bit rich to me that the speaker, who allowed the amendment, is proposing his own changes

He doesn't even hold johnson to apologising for misleading (lying) the house at the box

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apt

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This is worth a look

- although look closely as SOME of these extra curricula activities (at least at cursory glance) seem not just OK, but actually worthy

but some most certainly do not

 

30 MPs who could be affected by proposed consultancy ban | House of Commons | The Guardian

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As the Commons standards committee plans to review regulations here are the MPs earning money for advisory work

 

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Now this quote is one that Johnson and Frost should listen to

 

“I think those ideas which are meant to make life easier on the business community in Northern Ireland, especially on the citizens on the island of Ireland, should be embraced by the British government, rather than talking about red lines.”

 

– The European Commission's vice president Frans Timmermans

 

 

 

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LOL

Johnson has them all beat - by a country mile - not even a contest, let alone similar playing field

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briefly back to Paterson questions for cash:

 

"Mr Paterson would have been found to have broken the rules under any process that we create and we should not kid ourselves on that front.”

- Mark Fletcher, Conservative MP for Bolsover, and one of the MPs on the Standards Committee ... to Parliament

 

Its likely Johnsons plot was to drag out jury rigging a new 'standards committee' until the next election and give Paterson a seat in the house of Lords before it was done as a side benefit to his own protection from standards.

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Is Rabb and Johnson throwing the whips to the dogs?

.. or is that (more likely ) Rabb set up ... with Johnson standing back ready to throw Rabb to the dogs should it backfire?

 

Sounds a bit dicey ... go for it

 

• Dominic Raab has not denied that threats may have been made to revoke the constituency funding of Tory MPs who were minded to rebel against the government in the Owen Paterson lobbying row.
• The deputy prime minister and justice secretary said spending decisions were not affected by the votes of individual MPs but was unable to rule out reports that the threats were made.

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“Well, I can’t tell you what happened between the whips and individual MPs, what I can tell you is that there are no government decisions ....

 

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Tom Newton-Dunn of Times Radio: “Two different backbench Tory MPs tell me they have been approached by whips in the last 24 hours to tell them the Chief, Mark Spencer, was NOT the instigator of last week’s disastrous motion, but he was following direct orders from the prime minister. It means government whips have (officially or not) begun actively briefing against No 10”

 

Duhh - of course Johnson was the instigator of the motion ..

. the question is who was the instigator of the threat to withhold funds from MP's constituencies

 

Johnson of course will whoolly word a denial whether he did instigate it or not,

but the second question iswill the chief whip, or someone from Johnsons office take the fall - or will they all just try and ignore answering to the potentially criminal act of threatening the withholding of taxpayer money

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“the dishonourable member for the Virgin Islands”. The former attorney general faces fresh allegations today that he used his parliamentary office to carry out private work.

- Mail

 

and lets not forget that some of Johnsons demands were too much even for Cox as attorney general - so prime meat to be thrown to the dogs as a (valid) distraction

 

IMO its just further examples of how corrupt the Tories under Johnson and his ilke are - not even a proper Tory there to give them a righteous handbagging

 

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and wholesale gas prices in Europe have already slumped to the lowest in more than a week as Russia opens the taps ...

Wonder how long it will take for UK gas prices to drop?

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At the risk of normalising sleaze throufgh sheer volume of it ..

I see Dunnycan Smith has also been sleazily using his position as commitee chairs to forward his 'other employer' interests - and again at the expense of health and science (IMO)

 

Iain Duncan Smith accused of ‘brazen conflict of interest’ over £25,000 job | Iain Duncan Smith | The Guardian

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Ex-Tory leader chaired government taskforce that recommended new rules benefiting firm he was employed by

 

 

Aside from the fact that he had a clear conflict of interest, the committee he chaired recommended the use of non alcohol based  hand gel as sold by his other employer - in stark contrast to the science which shows alcohol based hand gel vastly more effective than BKC (non-alcohol) hand gel as sold by his private employer

 

(PDF) COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF EFFICACY OF ALCOHOLIC Vs NON-ALCOHOLIC HAND SANITIZERS

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PDF | With respect to the realization that hand hygiene is a prerequisite for the prevention of diseases, the conventional method of washing hand...

 

 

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oh .. and for those for whom the researchgate article is a little 'too much' - no criticism intended

 

Coronavirus: UK dropped WHO guidance on alcohol-based hand sanitisers before lockdown

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Alcohol-free sanitisers used in some of England's schools could take up to six times as long to kill the virus.

 

 

.. thanks to Dunnycan at the behest of one of his other employers? ...

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Like that Tory MP saying they should be paid more as they were struggling to pay for a nanny on over 80,000 quid plus expenses

 

 

Can anyone explain to me why there seemed to have been well over 30 labour and snp MP's didn't vote against Johnson and Leadsoms sleaze protection amendment? ... More than enough to defeat the amendment - or that I've (hopefully) misread or misunderstood?

 

How did your MP vote on the Owen Paterson case?

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All but a few Tory MPs voted on Wednesday not to suspend Owen Paterson after he was found guilty of paid lobbying by a standards watchdog

 

 

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The multiple homes for MPs is a disgrace

Set aside one of the tower blocks with 500 flats for them to use

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2 tower blocks then ... if most dont suddenly find a london location isn't needed

They can have the same allowance people get to use a room at home for work if they use their own - probably already do that as well

 

... as well as traveling expenses

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As Johnson the corrupt liar, PM who unlawfully prorogued parliament, breached requirements in PPE ordering, tries repeatedly to get his corrupt mates off, regularly lies at the dispatch box, awards peerages to family and funders  .. the list goes on

- has the utter gall to say MPs who break rules must be punished

 

MPs ‘earned millions from second jobs’ - follow Geoffrey Cox news live

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Latest updates as they happen

 

 

Let alone his worst crime

 

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need to add to the 'other jobs' investigation where MPs miss Parliamentary votes (part of their core responsibility IMO) while they are off somewhere working for their 'other employer'

 

,, let alone when its working for a tax haven protecting them from HMG investigations

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So why isnt this hitting more headlines alongside his other aberrations?

A number have been linked here for some time ...

perhaps headlines of: Sleaze, Waste, Cronyism and Corruption at the heart of Johnsons Government

 

£84m in PPE money goes to middlemen with the right political connections

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"Not enjoying my breakfast this morning. This is sickening," one person tweeted in response to the Good Law Project findings.

 

 

"One company, Ayanda, won a £252 million deal to supply facemasks – with £155 million-worth of them being deemed unusable by the NHS over safety concerns.

Andrew Mills, who worked for Ayanda as a consultant, is a former government adviser, and was paid £32.4 million for the deal, while Tim Horlick (who owns Ayanda) pocketed £40 million."

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