Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister

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and no surprises ..

 

Conservative MP simply cuts his reported consultancy hours from 30 to 15 hours ..

... for the same £3,000 a month as he got for the previously reported 30 hours a month

 

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski's second job cut from 30 to 15 hours per month | Shropshire Star

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The monthly amount of hours Shrewsbury's MP commits to his second job has halved, according to the latest register of interests.

 

 

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Conservative MP Owen Paterson asked a third NI business for consultancy work 'weeks after leaving government' - Belfast Live

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The MP resigned last week after a government U-turn on efforts to block his suspension from parliament for breaching lobbying rules

 

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as the BBC temporarily escapes Dacre formalising the final stage of the conversion of the BBC into the Boris Broadcasting Company - or Boris Today

... in another area it is offered a more open choice between Just Johnson right, or right far right

 

- The misuse of taxpayer money in funding Johnson party propaganda just isnt cutting it and the BBC (Boris Broadcasting Company) license fee money is needed to present the required message - not challenging the message simply isnt enough anymore)

 

Paul Dacre pulls out of running to be next Ofcom chair | Ofcom | The Guardian

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Former Daily Mail editor announces decision not to proceed with second bid and takes swipe at civil service

 

 

BBC: Laura Keunssberg & Andrew Neil emerging as front-runners to replace Marr

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A number of people are in the running for Marr's slot.

 

 

Bet Victoria Derbyshire is also already under attack by Johnson 'the corrupt liar'

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Seems some are seeing some difference here - seemed just the usual to me.

 

Maybe his plan is, Incompetence doesn't get me out, corruption doesn't get me out, perhaps mental health issues might get me out before I have to deliver something worthwhile, or at least before Brexit reality really kicks in?

- oops he thinks, wish i hadn't defunded and poo poo'd mental health issues

 

.. But Boris, being a corrupt lying incompetent who doesn't give a crap about anything except self interest isn't an illness, its a requirement for positions of responsibility power and personal profit under your government

 

Boris Johnson lost for words as he loses place in bizarre speech to business leaders

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Prime minister makes ‘Vroom! Vroom!’ car noises and asks CBI bosses about Peppa Pig

 

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one Tory MP said 'he needs a break'

- remind me - how many luxury holidays (paid for by peerages and VIPals PPE contracts (allegedly)) has he had?

- let alone him hiding away 'allegedly 'writing his book' during multiple crisis

- let alone avoiding issues and questions in parliament - when he bothers to go

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Says a great deal about the cabinet Johnson picked eh?

 

I wouldn't vote for any of them .. even against Corbyn,

but they ALL (Johnsons Cabinet and Corbyn) inspire me to vote for Starmer, or any of the labour probables

... even if Starmer himself doesn't :-/

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On top of breaking the promises for a high speed rail link in the north, the leveling up/covering the drop in money from the EU promises - out the window

Red wall = conned wall (well apart from those who wouldn't vote for Corbyn .. with reson IMO)

 

"Business groups and local councils are protesting at a hidden £1.65bn post-Brexit cut to development funding in the north, in a fresh blow to Boris Johnson’s claims to be “levelling up” the country."

 

"South Yorkshire is poised to lose £900m and Tees Valley and Durham £750m over six years, the organisations are telling Michael Gove."

 

"The Red Wall areas, plus Lincolnshire, were in line to receive the cash because they have become relatively poorer since the last spending round which finished last year.

The government pledged to match lost EU funding after Brexit – to “tackle inequality and deprivation”, it said – but is now accused of a second broken promise."

 

 

Business groups attack £1.65bn cut to ‘levelling up’ funding in north after Brexit

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Exclusive: South Yorkshire to lose £900m and Tees Valley and Durham £750m, Michael Gove told – despite pledge to ‘match’ EU funds

 

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Too true HB, particularly when you look at johnson 'the corrupt incompetent liar's proposal that UK border force would effectively 'manage' the french forces on French soil - sovereignty? ...

 

.. as you say when many of the alleged traffickers are allegedly in the UK using UK financial systems to manage the proceeds from the trafficking ... allegedly  ..

 

I think Johnsons just trying to run it all out until the brink of an election - I also think that the corruption stink has somewhat curtailed Johnsons plans for an early election - he'll be hoping if he ignores it it will all just blow over and his rating will bounce back up again - although God knows why he has any ratings other than pi** off you lying corrupt piece of s*** is beyond me.

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Oh - and I think far more than simply withdrawing from the Touqet agreement - a full blown trade war with sanctions is on the cards - Johnson has brinked it hoping the EU would crack (and they did offer some concessions which Johnson/Frost rejected) and backed off

 

Johnson is after an election - I really do think he'll be relieved if he loses ..

 

 

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200k? - thats just half a peanut compared to what he has squandered

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Really? I doubt that

Seen the headlines, but no way johnson has paid it himself - absolutely zero - the money will have come from some dodgy source

 

Rather like saying a drug dealer paid himself for the london mansion he bought as an investment - from the 'london based' arm of his bank via some tax havens fiddle

.. or perhaps? a better simile - like some drug dealer bought his politician a mansion ...

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2 hours ago, honeybee13 said:

So Johnson's latest missive to Macron, published online before Macron saw it, has possibly had the opposite effect of what was intended [unsurprisingly] and Patel has been disinvited to the ministerial meeting on borders and migrants in Calais tomorrow.

 

One of the things the French are particularly not happy about is that Johnson wants to send back to France anyone who lands in Britain from a small boat, as he seems to want to brand them all 'illegal'.

 

Can someone explain to me why the French would want to do this?

 

Nope, but many reasons why they wouldn't

 

Would Johnnson allow UK beaches and skies to be patrolled by French border forces and drones?

Would Johnson accept immigrants from France - even if they originated from prior British controlled areas of Africa let alone anywhere else?

With Patel and Frosts rhetoric, would anyone tell them anything except Pi** off?

Given Johnson and Frosts stated readiness to simply trash recently agreed international deals, why would anyone agree anything with them (which required investment and risk on their part)?

 

Given we are largely where the Brexit johnson and the Brexiters have defined would always have put us, - why wasn't all this sorted and organised before the referendum, let alone before we left the EU?

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Obviously those that drove it feared that defining the actual outcome rather than running on with the Brexit campaign lies would likely result in the referendum result being overturned.

 

The Polls (for what they are worth) are now showing a majority for remain/rejoin are they not?

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Lets never forget that Brexit was sold on 2/3 main points 1 positive, 1 negative ...

+ maybe one other which could be either depending on the approach but was tied to the negative point

The positive point in reality always clashed completely with the other 2.

 

 

1. Positive - extra money for the NHS/social care (which is massively populated by immigrant workers)

Apart from Covid, where huge sums were routed to Not-the-NHS for crap PPE etc, the real NHS has continued to be defunded and run into the ground with nothing but rank lies claiming dozens more hospitals built/being built

 

2. Negative - Hate immigrants/foreigners

- which continues unabated with Patel being the front monster  ... despite those 'foreigners' picking the crops and caring for our sick and elderly and working in our hospitality

 

3. Sovereignty and the UK as a world leader - and quite specifically NOT a low tax, low regulation Singapore-on-Thames

- Sovereignty and world power - Truss and Frost - please give us a deal - any crappy deal - and protect our borders for us while Tax free ports are created, taxes increaes to pay the PPEPals and human and environmental rights are trashed with sewage poured
 into our waterways

 

 

 

and regarding Frost - the lie defined by his own words:

 

"David Frost, the Brexit minister, said in a speech yesterday that the whole point of leaving the EU was for Britain to do things differently. That was why, he said, he negotiated what is often called a “hard” Brexit, because he and Boris Johnson wanted to give Britain the maximum freedom to diverge from EU rules. He argued that Britain will only make a success of Brexit if it goes for a low-tax economy that focuses on deregulation and innovation.

 

There is just one problem with this vision of a chaotic, creative free-trade entrepot off the coast of the ossified European empire: it is not what most Leavers voted for. Talking about the motives of the 17m people who voted to Leave involves some sweeping generalisations, but to generalise sweepingly, most of them were voting for more spending on the NHS and a continental-style welfare state."

 

Very specifically NOT what the Leave voters were told or voted foe (who in fact voted based on being told specifically it wouldn't happen

 

 

Lord Frost has identified a fundamental problem with Brexit | John Rentoul

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The Brexit minister wants Britain to be a low-tax offshore trading centre, but Leave voters want EU levels of high public spending, writes John Rentoul

 

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11 hours ago, theoldrouge said:

Negative - Hate immigrants/foreigners

- which continues unabated with Patel being the front monster  ... 

 

 

All is not well in (Brex)topia

What happens when the posturing, corrupt, incompetent Churchill wannabe (like heck), who is currently threatening all and sundry in a vain attempt to appear hard right, is,as seems likely, deposed. by

Monsieur Gove, who doesn't care for monster Patel

 

Does this lead to UK being able to get off the the Worlds naughty step and return to the world stage and some honour, leaving the Brexiter panto farce behind to Brexiters whines?

 

 

Corrected

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so @theoldrouge (what a fabulous name for someone supporting the Brexit farce)

 

Tell us how the UK will benefit from that appallingly bad Australia deal Truss  and Johnson (the corrupt incompetent liar) surrendered to?

 

(well apart from allowing a small amount of UK investment by a small handful of VIPals in Australian coal and strip mining at the cost of the loss of IMMENSE UK/EU cross investment)

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While we wait ...

 

 

A view into the Tory perspective from the Independent View from Westminster newsletter

 

Tory party falls out with the PM

It’s the day cabinet ministers dread: the publication of the monthly Conservative Home poll of party members.

 

Liz Truss and David Frost top the net satisfaction league table again, but there have been some dramatic swings to “dissatisfied” since last month. Mark Spencer, the chief whip, has suffered the worst, acting as a scapegoat for the disastrous attempt to bail out Owen Paterson, with a 29 per cent swing to minus 21.

 

Boris Johnson himself is the next big casualty, an 18 per cent swing to minus 17; followed by Priti Patel, a 13 per cent swing to a “net zero” satisfaction rating, thanks no doubt to Channel crossings; and Jacob Rees-Mogg, also implicated in the Paterson error, who suffered a 10 per cent swing to a reduced rating of plus 34.

 

Rishi Sunak, on the other hand, seems to be recovering slightly from making the Conservatives the party of high taxes, with a bounce back from a plus 45 rating to plus 53. 

 

The Con Home poll is not a representative sample, but it is restricted to party members and has a good track record of predicting leadership election votes. The August poll was also a good predictor of who was going to be sacked in the September cabinet reshuffle, but now the prime minister himself is second from bottom he would have to sack himself.

 

 

 

So the CONhome Tories think Truss and Frost,  lead negotiators of the UK's EU task farce and the Australia gets the benefits trade deal are the Trouts scallops

Easily pleased is all I can say. (Not that theres much to chose from)

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Johnson is shame, disgrace and dishonor on us all, including real Tories

Simple as that.

 

Churchill would be apoplectic

and if Thatcher were still alive, Johnson would be cowering in a corner

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was just looking at that HB.

Wonder who will foot the bill? Taxpayers or the Tory party?

 

 

 

On a side note

Johnson feeds populist pals £millions and £millions for duff PPE,

including £millions to individual populist pal middlemen to order duff stuff made in China via alibaba or suchlike

 

 

Scotland shows how a real government does it:

 

“We’ve also established a domestic supply chain for PPE, with 88% of supplies coming from Scottish companies, which not only provides Scotland with more resilience but also an added economic benefit.”

 

"Richard Leonard convener of the committee, said he and other MSPs had “looked at awe at the growth from zero to 88% in the percentage of domestic supply”.

 

"Gordon Beattie, director of national procurement at NSS, said transparent face masks made in Scotland are being considered for use in England and had won export orders from Europe."

 

 

Domestic supply of PPE for NHS now at 88%, MSPs told

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Holyrood’s Public Audit Committee heard items are also now being exported to Europe.

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, tobyjugg2 said:

 

"Gordon Beattie, director of national procurement at NSS, said transparent face masks made in Scotland

are being considered for use in England and had won export orders from Europe."

 

 

Johnson just needs to figure out how his pals can make taxpayer money from it for doing next to nowt,

.. and some way he wont be clearly shown yet again as a worse than useless incompetent corrupt prat

 

The second - almost impossible

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interesting that Britain was

1 hour ago, honeybee13 said:

They still haven't got it about negotiating with larger nations/trading blocs. As someone on Twitter says, 'Vole threatens tiger'. No 10 warns the US.

 

Don’t block steel deal because of Northern Ireland Brexit row, No 10 warns US

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Wrong to ‘conflate’ issues, Boris Johnson’s spokesman insists – after US official said talks were on hold because of Article 16 fears

 

 

Interesting that the UK was sanctioned as part of the US' 'retaliation against the EU when the UK was still a member

Those sanctions have already ended for the EU ....

 

'Negotiators Johnson, Frost and Truss?

More like NO-GO-tiators

 

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I see the Tories held their safe seat on Old Bexley and Sidcup ... but with a very encouraging 10% swing to Labour and a massive 75% fall in their majority after losing one of the remaining 'real' Tories to the blight of cancer.

 

The upcoming North Shropshire by-election after the resignation of corrupt self serving (allegedly) Paterson is the definition of a Tory safe seat. Peterson might even have snuck a re-win in if Johnson hadn't thought another tory candidate removes the risk.

Be interesting to see the result though.

 

 

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and regarding Paterson, Is it true his 'relationship' aka paid lobbying from Randox has 'ended'? (Fired as now useless?)

 

.. as Randox has now been pulled up for LOOOOONG not meeting UK consumer and legal requirements

.. which Randox are now addressing (well some of the blatant consumer rights abuses if not the other crap) now they dont have a Paid Populist MP protecting them.

 

As it also becomes clear Johnson and pals were throwing Christmas parties (no doubt paid for by Randox and suchlike) while we were all told we couldn't even talk to our grandparents over a fence ..

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Sleaze row Covid testing firm improves terms for customers

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Randox has made changes to avoid falling foul of consumer laws.

 

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and regarding the Johnson I'll Party while you lockdown ... and you better not vist your grandma

 

 

The BBC has spoken to someone who attended the party at Downing Street on 18 December reported by the Daily Mirror this morning. (See 9.30am.) According to the BBC, the source said “several dozen” people were there, food and drink were laid on, people played party games and the event went on until past midnight.

Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak)

After @PippaCrerar and @danbloom1 scoop this morning, we're told by an attendee of drinks in No 10 on Dec 18th that there were 'several dozen' people there, with food, drink and games which went on past midnight... https://t.co/42taDI3SKu - No 10's said all rules were followed

- Which is a very carefully worded response from Kuenssberg ... given the rumors (unconfirmed - but also un-denied) that both her (Kuenssberg) and Peston were there ...

... Perhaps it was one of the other lockdown parties they attended

 

 

 

 

 

 

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No 10 is looking at a “fresh war” with judges to let ministers “throw out any legal rulings they do not like”, according to The Times this morning. The newspaper claims Boris Johnson is keen to prevent the courts from overruling ministers through judicial reviews. One option is said to be an ‘Interpretation Bill’ to strike down findings the government is not too keen on.