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Post by northwestman on Jun 15, 2020 9:39:05 GMT 1
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Post by ssshrew on Jun 15, 2020 9:43:17 GMT 1
Boris backed Cummings so this should be no surprise to any of us.
This government could well turn out to be the shadiest bunch ever.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 15, 2020 10:01:00 GMT 1
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8418009/Murky-links-1billion-property-deal-Housing-Secretary-Robert-Jenrick-billionaire-tycoon.html'Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick was under mounting pressure last night after his links to a lobbyist for a Tory donor's £1 billion property deal were exposed by The Mail on Sunday. Mr Jenrick is fighting for his Cabinet job after becoming embroiled in a deeply embarrassing 'cash for favours' row concerning billionaire tycoon Richard Desmond, who wants to build 1,500 luxury flats in London's Docklands. On Thursday, Mr Jenrick didn't appear at an emergency Commons debate on his handling of the Westferry affair and was accused of cowardice in sending Mr Pincher in his place to answer awkward questions from opposition MPs'. But he will be unable to avoid his monthly departmental questions sessions due today!
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Post by northwestman on Jun 15, 2020 16:20:37 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jun 15, 2020 16:33:54 GMT 1
'Jenrick added: 'In terms of the decision, I entirely stand behind the decision that I made, I made it with an open mind, because we want to see more homes built in this country and in particular in our capital city'.
How disingenuous can he get? The scheme he tried to push through considerably reduced the % of social housing.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2020 17:02:50 GMT 1
'Jenrick added: 'In terms of the decision, I entirely stand behind the decision that I made, I made it with an open mind, because we want to see more homes built in this country and in particular in our capital city'. How disingenuous can he get? The scheme he tried to push through considerably reduced the % of social housing. He’s a Tory . What do you expect ? |
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Post by ssshrew on Jun 15, 2020 17:30:19 GMT 1
I think disingenuous is being remarkable kind in this instance. Other words are available.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 15, 2020 18:16:35 GMT 1
I think disingenuous is being remarkable kind in this instance. Other words are available. egregious pseudologue any better? |
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Post by ssshrew on Jun 15, 2020 18:23:56 GMT 1
It will do but there are others which may be libellous!
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Post by northwestman on Jun 15, 2020 18:30:21 GMT 1
It will do but there are others which may be libellous! It's saying something when it's the Daily and Sunday Mail that's leading the charge to hunt this barsteward down. |
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Post by northwestman on Jun 16, 2020 8:25:24 GMT 1
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/robert-jenrick-richard-desmond-tory-donor-cash-favours-cabinet-secretary-a9567121.html“In most previous governments, Robert Jenrick would have resigned well before now.” “The questionable conduct that is tolerated and defended in this current government is creating a dangerous new world in which standards in public life are seen as a concept from the past, and personal patronage and loyalty are now prized higher than combatting corruption.” “If there is no subsequent investigation into alleged misconduct, then the message that sends is that ministers can do whatever they like and just reverse the decision if their actions are questioned. The system needs to be preventive and act as a deterrent.” The housing secretary has refused to commit himself to publishing ministerial correspondence relating to his decision to approve a Tory donor’s £1 billion housing development. A fish's head rots from the head down.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 16, 2020 10:11:00 GMT 1
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Post by staffordshrew on Jun 16, 2020 10:17:07 GMT 1
Got to hand it to the Daily Mail, they are doing a pretty good job these days. The Daily Express, on the other hand, isn't.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jun 16, 2020 10:25:10 GMT 1
Boris backed Cummings so this should be no surprise to any of us. This government could well turn out to be the shadiest bunch ever. The most blatant too. Quite prepared to ride out anything, must have grown up the mantra that today's newspaper is tomorrow's chip paper. They just take no notice and carry on regardless. Perhaps they are hoping for huge sales for their memoirs once they have completed their mission to ruin Britain? |
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Post by ssshrew on Jun 16, 2020 10:30:19 GMT 1
The trouble is that it’s all true. We have a government that is rotten from the top down. We have a PM who is so light weight as to be a feather. One who wants to be all things to all people and popular to the end. One who can really only cope with one thing at a time and then not properly. One who will let the public down rather than censure his advisers, ministers and colleagues.
Make no mistake we are in a mess from the top down and we wonder why there are protests, hordes on beaches and in beauty spots ignoring social distancing. There is no moral fibre and/or example being led and we’ve got another bluddy four years of it.
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Post by staffordshrew on Jun 16, 2020 10:54:01 GMT 1
Yes. he's a gregarious guy, Boris. But he really should not be anywhere nearer power than a newspaper column.
When the The Times sent him to Wolverhampton to get some life experience as a reporter with the Express and Star (living in digs next door to Mr Gill's sausage factory), the Star apparently had to tell him "No more cat stuck up a tree stories" - which is odd because you hardly ever hear of a cat stuck up a tree, do you?
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Post by northwestman on Jun 17, 2020 7:53:50 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jun 17, 2020 12:27:47 GMT 1
No question from Starmer, though I do appreciate his shadow Communities and Local Government Minister, Steve Reed, is on the case. Nevertheless, it's disappointing that the relevant question was left to a Labour backbencher, who was easily brushed aside with Boris bluster. Starmer needs to up his game. This is the 3rd PMQs in a row where he's been letting Johnson off the hook. |
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Post by staffordshrew on Jun 17, 2020 12:38:01 GMT 1
Hopefully, Starmer will be asking Johnson some questions on this matter at PMQs today. No question from Starmer, though I do appreciate his shadow Communities and Local Government Minister, Steve Reed, is on the case. Nevertheless, it's disappointing that the relevant question was left to a Labour backbencher, who was easily brushed aside with Boris bluster. Starmer needs to up his game. This is the 3rd PMQs in a row where he's been letting Johnson off the hook. softly, softly, catchee monkey |
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Post by northwestman on Jun 17, 2020 14:34:29 GMT 1
www.politicshome.com/news/article/robert-jenrick-row-mps-demand-papers-on-1bn-richard-desmond-property-deal-as-as-they-warn-public-trust-could-be-erodedCabinet minister Robert Jenrick is facing fresh pressure to release papers on his controversial decision to grant planning permission on a site owned by a Conservative donor. Clive Betts, who chairs the Commons communities committee, has written to the Housing Secretary demanding “the publication of correspondence and documentation” relating to the decision over the Westferry Printworks site in Tower Hamlets. The committee has given Mr Jenrick until Friday to hand over any correspondence relating to the deal as well as any others interactions between his department and businessman Richard Desmond or his companies.
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Post by stfcfan87 on Jun 17, 2020 22:03:46 GMT 1
Not just jendrick, surely got to be an investigation into the awarding a large scale nhs contract to a small firm without history, knowledge or assets to do the job. Hancock was asked several times about it in parliament today and didn't give an answer
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Post by northwestman on Jun 18, 2020 7:56:44 GMT 1
Not just jendrick, surely got to be an investigation into the awarding a large scale nhs contract to a small firm without history, knowledge or assets to do the job. Hancock was asked several times about it in parliament today and didn't give an answer This needs looking into too: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/11/healthcare-firm-advised-by-owen-paterson-won-133m-coronavirus-testing-contract-unopposedNot to mention this: 'Hancock, along with other senior Conservatives, has nurtured a close relationship with horse racing. Hancock is the MP for Newmarket, flat horse racing’s headquarters and seat of the Jockey Club, and he receives tens of thousands of pounds in donations from wealthy racehorse owners, trainers and other members of the sport’s establishment. The Jockey Club, the historic organisation that owns racecourses at Newmarket and around the country, has two prominent Conservative figures on its board: Dido Harding, the former TalkTalk chief executive and Tory peer who has been put in charge of the government’s crucial Covid-19 test-and-trace operation; and Rose Paterson, the wife of the senior backbench MP Owen Paterson. Rose Paterson is also chair of Aintree racecourse, whose signature race, the Grand National, is sponsored by Randox Health, the diagnostics company advised by her husband that has been given a £133m contract to produce testing kits – without any other firms being given the opportunity to bid for the work'. www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/16/horse-racing-tory-donations-and-a-swift-return-from-lockdown-matt-hancock |
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Post by northwestman on Jun 18, 2020 8:03:30 GMT 1
No 10 has declined to say whether Boris Johnson has spoken to a Conservative donor at the centre of a controversial £1 billion planning development since becoming prime minister.
Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, is under scrutiny after admitting that his decision in January to overturn the recommendations of a local council and planning inspector and approve the scheme for 1,500 flats was unlawful.
The Times.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Jun 18, 2020 8:19:16 GMT 1
No 10 has declined to say whether Boris Johnson has spoken to a Conservative donor at the centre of a controversial £1 billion planning development since becoming prime minister. Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, is under scrutiny after admitting that his decision in January to overturn the recommendations of a local council and planning inspector and approve the scheme for 1,500 flats was unlawful. The Times. this goverment looks to have left transparency and good governence in a laybuy. |
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Post by northwestman on Jun 18, 2020 8:32:00 GMT 1
Starmer needs to up his game. This is the 3rd PMQs in a row where he's been letting Johnson off the hook. John Crace of the Guardian agrees with me. www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/17/boris-johnson-repeatedly-yells-schools-to-evade-scrutiny-in-dismal-pmqs'PMQs had been a dismal affair. Primetime scrutiny reduced to a charade. We’d all have been better informed watching Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? There is no area of public life that Boris cannot somehow corrode and toxify and Starmer is going to have to rethink his approach if he really wants to get under Boris and the Tories’ skins. PMQs as playground politics suits them just fine right now. But the rest of us deserve so much better than second-rate theatre at a time of national crisis and insecurity'. |
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Post by northwestman on Jun 18, 2020 9:06:24 GMT 1
Steve Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, said:
“This murky affair threatens to engulf 10 Downing Street. It’s not just the Housing Secretary that needs to come clean about the decisions he has taken, it’s the Prime Minister too.
“Robert Jenrick’s unlawful, biased decision that saved Desmond tens of millions of pounds was seeded in the Prime Minister’s approval of this application while he was Mayor of London, when he was wined and dined by Desmond in five star hotels across London.
“This scandal reaches right inside 10 Downing Street given the Prime Minister’s relationship with Richard Desmond. He must now come clean about when he and his advisers met Desmond since taking office and must ask the Cabinet Secretary to launch a formal investigation into any breaches of the Ministerial Code to show the Conservatives have not been accepting cash for favours.”
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Post by northwestman on Jun 18, 2020 9:31:48 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Jun 18, 2020 9:48:35 GMT 1
www.politicshome.com/news/article/robert-jenrick-row-mps-demand-papers-on-1bn-richard-desmond-property-deal-as-as-they-warn-public-trust-could-be-erodedCabinet minister Robert Jenrick is facing fresh pressure to release papers on his controversial decision to grant planning permission on a site owned by a Conservative donor. Clive Betts, who chairs the Commons communities committee, has written to the Housing Secretary demanding “the publication of correspondence and documentation” relating to the decision over the Westferry Printworks site in Tower Hamlets. The committee has given Mr Jenrick until Friday to hand over any correspondence relating to the deal as well as any others interactions between his department and businessman Richard Desmond or his companies.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 18, 2020 14:38:01 GMT 1
If Jenrick loses his job, then I've done my best to bring his failings to the attention of others, albeit that I'm obviously somewhat limited in influence (though I do have a Conservative MP as a sister). I've twittered both Starmer and Reed on this issue, and the latter does seem to be on the case, as does Clive Betts and the Select Committee.
I've also tried to contact Esther McVey, who was the Housing Minister, but she was ditched because she disagreed with Jenrick on this very issue of social housing, which was at the heart of the Westferry Printworks development application . She wanted more of it, whereas he's into owner/occupiers. Disappointingly, I've not received a reply from her.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 18, 2020 16:16:34 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/shielding-muslims-receiving-pork-items-in-england-food-packagesThis is on Jenrick's watch too. Let's add it to the charge list. 'The Labour MP Imran Hussain said his most vulnerable constituents were having to choose between eating and their religious or ethical beliefs. In a letter to Robert Jenrick, the communities secretary, Hussain wrote: “I want to be clear that this is unacceptable and deeply insensitive to our religious communities. “The inclusion of these products is also not just culturally and morally insensitive, forcing some in the most vulnerable positions to choose between compromising religious or other sincerely held beliefs and eating, but yet another display of the structural and institutionalised racism in our society – where the views of minorities are either not considered at all or regarded as not significant enough to warrant intervention.”'
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