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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Lion in Winter
Date: February 5, 2022, 9:27 pm
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Rats in a sack.
Someone trying to buy influence wants his money back
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/05/give-me-back-my-200000-major-donor-tells-tories
#Post#: 3817--------------------------------------------------
Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Siouxie
Date: February 5, 2022, 10:21 pm
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--- Quote from: Lion in Winter link ---
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> Rats in a sack.
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> Someone trying to buy influence wants his money back
>
>
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/05/give-me-back-my-200000-major-donor-tells-tories
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According to his claim he received nothing in return for his
contributions.. so a non event really.
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> Telecoms businessman Mohamed Amersi paid £50,000 for
membership of Tory donor club the Leader’s Group in
December 2020. But he says he was excluded from the invitation
list for high-level events last year, and that officials were
instructed not to invite him to the party’s winter ball
last November.
>
> He says he also paid £150,000 for auction prizes he never
received, including the breakfast with the prime minister, a
Japanese meal with Jeremy Hunt and a “magical show”
by former defence secretary Penny Mordaunt, who once worked as a
magician’s assistant....
>
> ...Amersi believes one of the reasons for his exclusion is
that he exposed the “access capitalism” he alleges
Elliot presides over, in which he claims privileged
relationships are extended to those who make hefty donations.
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Lion in Winter
Date: February 6, 2022, 7:56 am
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--- Quote from: Siouxie link ---
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> According to his claim he received nothing in return for his
contributions.. so a non event really.
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The 'event' is that it was intended that he should receive
something for his contributions, and that the Tories were very
anxious to do so and to cultivate him for that end, to the
extent of considering giving him the chairmanship of the
National Lottery Community Fund.
However, they went sour on him because he exposed Ben Elliott's,
co-chair of the conservative party, sale of access to high
ranking Conservatives, and even Prince Charles, in return for
the cash.
So yeah rats in a sack.
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Cel
Date: February 6, 2022, 10:17 am
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Yep, rats in a sack who will now start stabbing each other in
the back!
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: macliam
Date: February 6, 2022, 10:25 am
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> Yep, rats in a sack who will now start stabbing each other in
the back!
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I feel I need to speak up in defence of rats.......... the
four-legged kind that is!
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: macliam
Date: February 6, 2022, 12:02 pm
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Even in America........
HTML https://twitter.com/i/status/1489566060328198148
HTML https://twitter.com/i/status/1489566060328198148
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: macliam
Date: February 8, 2022, 12:54 pm
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How much longer can this fiasco at Westminster continue?
Fresh from the de-clawed version of the Gray report, now handily
being hidden away by the Met belatedly deciding that maybe it
should look to prosecute those who break the law......
Fresh from official reports starting to demonstrate the crass
mismanagement and corruption of Sunak's redistribution of wealth
from the poor to the rich....
Fresh from the totally chaotic mismanagement of the pandemic....
(and for any who buy into the 'great vaccine rollout' just one
look at the death totals vis-à-vis our neighbours will give a
lie to that bollix).....
Fresh from displaying how unhealthy "oven ready" policies
are.....
Johnson is now in full chaff mode, firing of in all directions
in order to distract from the fact that he is the same lying,
cheating, asocial bully he always was. Starmer is accused of an
egregious lie - accused in parliament so that there is no
recourse to law - and that spurs the rent-a-thug mob to surround
him in the street. Now Rees-Mogg, the C18th throwback, is
rewarded by a Ministerial role overseeing "Brexit Opportunities"
for having moved his own Wealth Management business to Dublin to
avoid Brexit restrictions.
What next - Vladimir Putin for Foreign Minister?
#Post#: 3927--------------------------------------------------
Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Lion in Winter
Date: February 8, 2022, 3:09 pm
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--- Quote from: macliam link ---
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> How much longer can this fiasco at Westminster continue?
>
> Fresh from the de-clawed version of the Gray report, now
handily being hidden away by the Met belatedly deciding that
maybe it should look to prosecute those who break the law......
>
> Fresh from official reports starting to demonstrate the crass
mismanagement and corruption of Sunak's redistribution of wealth
from the poor to the rich....
>
> Fresh from the totally chaotic mismanagement of the
pandemic.... (and for any who buy into the 'great vaccine
rollout' just one look at the death totals vis-à-vis our
neighbours will give a lie to that bollix).....
>
> Fresh from displaying how unhealthy "oven ready" policies
are.....
>
> Johnson is now in full chaff mode, firing of in all directions
in order to distract from the fact that he is the same lying,
cheating, asocial bully he always was. Starmer is accused of an
egregious lie - accused in parliament so that there is no
recourse to law - and that spurs the rent-a-thug mob to surround
him in the street. Now Rees-Mogg, the C18th throwback, is
rewarded by a Ministerial role overseeing "Brexit Opportunities"
for having moved his own Wealth Management business to Dublin to
avoid Brexit restrictions.
>
> What next - Vladimir Putin for Foreign Minister?
>
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Tim Martin as Chief Whip?
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: DaveLovesDee
Date: February 9, 2022, 8:42 am
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--- Quote from: Lion in Winter link ---
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> Tim Martin as Chief Whip?
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Farage as milkshake tester?
#Post#: 3962--------------------------------------------------
Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: macliam
Date: February 9, 2022, 9:33 am
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A nice BBC breakdown of Johnson's statistical claims, from Radio
4's "More ot Less".
HTML https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00146b6
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