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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 13:17:25 GMT 1
He said it would be "honourable" If only honourable was something we expected from MPs of any party! |
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Post by Dancin on May 28, 2021 15:33:02 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 15:53:44 GMT 1
"But Mr Johnson, "unwisely, in my view, allowed the refurbishment of the apartment... to proceed without more rigorous regard for how this would be funded", he added". An unwise PM as if we didn't know already  |
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Post by northwestman on May 28, 2021 16:34:47 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on May 28, 2021 16:44:57 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 19:32:28 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 19:37:24 GMT 1
Tory sleaze. Nothing to see here! |
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 19:47:51 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 20:01:46 GMT 1
Tory sleaze. Nothing to see here! đđđđ Someoneâs feeling rather jovial this eveningđđ |
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2021 20:06:20 GMT 1
Someoneâs feeling rather jovial this eveningđđ đ¤Łđ¤Łđđ |
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Post by staffordshrew on May 28, 2021 23:08:42 GMT 1
He's very good at whitewashing.... |
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Post by SeanBroseley on May 29, 2021 3:03:02 GMT 1
Thank god everything is alright. Phew!!!!!
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Post by northwestman on Jun 1, 2021 15:52:13 GMT 1
Disgraced MP Rob Roberts must resign his seat in the Commons or face a fresh parliamentary investigation, a second accuser has said.
Mr Roberts faces calls from several Cabinet ministers and Tory MPs to leave the Commons permanently after he was given a six-week suspension on Thursday for harassing a former employee and making unwanted advances to him.
Another accuser, who took her complaint about Mr Roberts asking her for "fun times" and "no strings" sex to the Conservative Party last year, has told The Telegraph that she will re-report his conduct to Parliament and trigger a second investigation if he does not resign.
"Ultimately, I just want him recalled, so if I have to go through the process of filing a report again I will," she said. "If he doesn't resign, I will go through the entire process again."
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Post by northwestman on Jun 4, 2021 12:34:31 GMT 1
www.businessinsider.com/disgraced-tory-lord-backed-by-boris-johnson-gives-conservatives-500k-2021-6?r=US&IR=TA Conservative member of the House of Lords, whose peerage was forced through last year by Boris Johnson despite his role in a cash-for-access scandal, has handed the prime minister's party half a million pounds. Lord Peter Cruddas donated ÂŁ500,000 to the Conservative Party's central office on 5 February 2021, only three days after he was introduced into the House of Lords where he now sits as a Conservative peer, the latest Electoral Commission records show. Cruddas was nominated to become a member of the House of Lords by Boris Johnson in December 2020, despite objections from the House of Lords Appointments Commission, an independent group that vets nominations. The Appointments Commission was unable to support the nomination owing to concerns over allegations made following an investigation by undercover reporters from the Sunday Times after he offered them access to the then Prime Minister David Cameron in exchange for ÂŁ250,000 in donations. Johnson wrote: "The most serious accusations levelled at the time were found to be untrue and libellous". But the Court of Appeal found that The former Conservative party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas corruptly offered access to David Cameron and other leading members of the Government in exchange for donations. I'd suggest that that was surely one of the most serious accusations, but once again Johnson does what he pleases. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/peter-cruddas-did-offer-access-david-cameron-donations-court-appeal-rules-10114305.html?r=11613Professor Liz David-Barrett at the University of Sussex's Centre for the Study of Corruption said: "This is yet another example of the Prime Minister disregarding advice from the public bodies that are there to uphold standards in public life, in this case ignoring the fact that Peter Cruddas is understood to have failed the vetting process. That completely undermines these public bodies and puts the UK on a very slippery slope of declining standards.
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Post by venceremos on Jun 4, 2021 13:00:21 GMT 1
So blatant, this is real banana republic stuff.
If people don't care, this is how it will always be. If we don't care what they do, you can be damn sure they won't care about us - and frankly, why should they?.
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Post by ssshrew on Jun 4, 2021 13:48:00 GMT 1
The only trouble is that they donât really care about us in the first place. They can say what they like but if the words arenât followed by actions they mean nothing.
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Post by servernaside on Jun 4, 2021 15:34:31 GMT 1
It shows how desperate to Labour Party is when it wearily concentrates on the wallpaper in the PM's flat.
No-one else gives a damn. And in any case, the building belongs to the state in the first place, it's not as if he's doing it up to sell it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 16:43:59 GMT 1
It shows how desperate to Labour Party is when it wearily concentrates on the wallpaper in the PM's flat. No-one else gives a damn. And in any case, the building belongs to the state in the first place, it's not as if he's doing it up to sell it. If you are prepared to put up with such blatant corruption, it says much about your morals. I notice you have completely avoided the Cruddas affair without comment. People in authority who have been placed there through the trust of the electorate are expected to live by the highest standards. If they don't it is a very sad state of affairs, and anyone who supports them should be ashamed of themselves. |
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Post by northwestman on Jun 4, 2021 16:47:43 GMT 1
It shows how desperate to Labour Party is when it wearily concentrates on the wallpaper in the PM's flat. No-one else gives a damn. And in any case, the building belongs to the state in the first place, it's not as if he's doing it up to sell it. Not only his wallpaper. His food, his nanny, his wedding (though to be fair that seemed a bit cheapskate) and his holidays. All seem to be possibilities to have been bankrolled elsewhere and not declared in the register of members interests. |
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Post by servernaside on Jun 4, 2021 19:57:03 GMT 1
It shows how desperate to Labour Party is when it wearily concentrates on the wallpaper in the PM's flat. No-one else gives a damn. And in any case, the building belongs to the state in the first place, it's not as if he's doing it up to sell it. If you are prepared to put up with such blatant corruption, it says much about your morals. I notice you have completely avoided the Cruddas affair without comment. People in authority who have been placed there through the trust of the electorate are expected to live by the highest standards. If they don't it is a very sad state of affairs, and anyone who supports them should be ashamed of themselves. Don't lecture me on morals, my friend. |
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Post by servernaside on Jun 4, 2021 19:59:46 GMT 1
It shows how desperate to Labour Party is when it wearily concentrates on the wallpaper in the PM's flat. No-one else gives a damn. And in any case, the building belongs to the state in the first place, it's not as if he's doing it up to sell it. Not only his wallpaper. His food, his nanny, his wedding (though to be fair that seemed a bit cheapskate) and his holidays. All seem to be possibilities to have been bankrolled elsewhere and not declared in the register of members interests. As I said before, with all the important matters of state going on at the moment, the pandemic and the post Covid economic recovery etc. Labour are more interested in wallpaper. It says much about their continuing slide into irrelevancy. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 20:45:02 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 21:01:29 GMT 1
What a smack in the face for everyone up and down the country who has had the misfortune to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and has had to isolate, many if not most on SSP.
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Post by venceremos on Jun 4, 2021 22:56:46 GMT 1
Not only his wallpaper. His food, his nanny, his wedding (though to be fair that seemed a bit cheapskate) and his holidays. All seem to be possibilities to have been bankrolled elsewhere and not declared in the register of members interests. As I said before, with all the important matters of state going on at the moment, the pandemic and the post Covid economic recovery etc. Labour are more interested in wallpaper. It says much about their continuing slide into irrelevancy. Do try to keep up. I know the scandals come thick and fast with this corrupt government - easier to bury them if the torrent never relents - but this isn't about wallpaper. It says much about your 'continuing slide into irrelevancy'. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2021 22:59:43 GMT 1
If you are prepared to put up with such blatant corruption, it says much about your morals. I notice you have completely avoided the Cruddas affair without comment. People in authority who have been placed there through the trust of the electorate are expected to live by the highest standards. If they don't it is a very sad state of affairs, and anyone who supports them should be ashamed of themselves. Don't lecture me on morals, my friend. Thank you for calling me friend. Friends seek your best interest. Because of that, they offer advice and counsel that is insightful and helpful. |
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Post by northwestman on Jun 10, 2021 9:38:33 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/09/covid-contract-for-firm-run-by-cummings-friends-was-unlawful-judge-rulesMichael Gove acted unlawfully when the government awarded a contract without a tender to a polling company owned by long-term associates of his and Dominic Cummings, then Boris Johnsonâs chief adviser, a judge has ruled. Mrs Justice OâFarrell, who gave the ruling on the Cabinet Office contract with Public First, said: âThe decision of 5 June 2020 to award the contract to Public First gave rise to apparent bias and was unlawful.â She ruled that the Cabinet Officeâs failure to identify or consider any other research agency to carry out the work gave the appearance of âa real dangerâ that the contract award was biased. Public First is run by husband and wife policy specialists James Frayne and Rachel Wolf, both of whom previously worked with Cummings and Gove, the Cabinet Office minister. But the Cabinet Office said âthere will be no investigationâ, arguing that Gove âwas not involved in the decision to award this contractâ When the case reached a hearing in February, Cummings confirmed in a witness statement that Frayne and Wolf were his long-term friends, and that he had been instrumental in Public First being given the Covid-19 work. The GLP argued that the Cabinet Office acted unlawfully, with apparent bias, in awarding the contract without considering other companies. A Downing Street spokesperson said: âWe welcome the judgment that we were entitled to award the contract on the grounds of extreme urgency in response to an unprecedented global pandemic. The judgment makes clear that there was no suggestion of actual bias in the decision to award the contract, it was not due to any personal or professional connections. This is the 'actual bias' 'apparent bias' argument which has already been run through in the court case involving Robert Jenrick and Tower Hamlets Council, where his 'apparent bias' in approving the Westferry Printworks development would clearly have benefited Richard Desmond. Jenrick lost the case. The claim that 'it was not due to any personal and professional connections' was also made by Jenrick . It was apparently sheer coincidence that Jenrick and Desmond dined together shortly before Jenrick's decision was made. Since the legal battle, it has been revealed that Mr Jenrick sat on a table with Mr Desmond at a Conservative Party fundraiser and that Mr Desmond donated ÂŁ12,000 to the party just two weeks after the application was approved.
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Post by northwestman on Jun 10, 2021 10:06:07 GMT 1
The High Court has ruled that the governmentâs award of a coronavirus contract to a market research company whose bosses were friends of government adviser Dominic Cummings was unlawful.
Anti-corruption campaign group the Good Law Project won its case against Michael Goveâs Cabinet Office over the payment of more than ÂŁ500,000 of taxpayersâ money to Public First at the outset of the coronavirus crisis in March 2020.
The ruling comes after the same group won a case against health secretary Matt Hancock in February this year over his failure to observe transparency requirements in regard to the spending of âvast sums of public moneyâ on pandemic procurement in the early months of the Covid-19 outbreak.
It represents a further blow to Boris Johnson after allegations that he has presided over a âchumocracyâ which saw contracts running into billions of pounds awarded without competitive tender to companies and individuals with links to the Conservative Party.
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Post by Minormorris64 on Jun 10, 2021 10:30:24 GMT 1
The High Court has ruled that the governmentâs award of a coronavirus contract to a market research company whose bosses were friends of government adviser Dominic Cummings was unlawful. Anti-corruption campaign group the Good Law Project won its case against Michael Goveâs Cabinet Office over the payment of more than ÂŁ500,000 of taxpayersâ money to Public First at the outset of the coronavirus crisis in March 2020. The ruling comes after the same group won a case against health secretary Matt Hancock in February this year over his failure to observe transparency requirements in regard to the spending of âvast sums of public moneyâ on pandemic procurement in the early months of the Covid-19 outbreak. It represents a further blow to Boris Johnson after allegations that he has presided over a âchumocracyâ which saw contracts running into billions of pounds awarded without competitive tender to companies and individuals with links to the Conservative Party. The Independent. The Judge had warned them if they lost the case that the bill for costs may exceed more than the value of the contract unlawfully awarded. |
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Post by northwestman on Jun 11, 2021 8:36:35 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/10/high-court-michael-gove-law-cronyism-covid-contractsDominic Cummings, then Boris Johnsonâs chief adviser, wanted Public First. It was run by his friends â though Cummings claims this had no influence on his advice. He had worked with its key people for decades. He said it should be given the contract. Civil servants took that as an instruction. The Cabinet Office gave the contract to Public First. Good Law Project took Michael Gove, the minister in charge of the Cabinet Office, to court to prove he had broken the law. The high court agreed. It rejected Goveâs arguments that no one else could do the job. The truth, it found, was that no one had even considered giving the contract to anyone else. It appeared to a reasonable observer â that being the legal test â as though Public Firstâs relationships with Cummings and Gove had won the contract for it. Gove had indeed broken the law. The question is how to deliver accountability to ministers whose response to court rulings is indifference, even contempt.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2021 8:48:46 GMT 1
It appeared to a reasonable observer â that being the legal test â as though Public Firstâs relationships with Cummings and Gove had won the contract for it. Well it doesnât need to be a reasonable observer does it! Just not a government lickspittle. Completely obvious to anyone who cares to see! And just one case among hundreds. âOh but it was a pandemicâ âOh no one could have seen this comingâ âOh public emergencyâ âOh fake newsâ âSure!â âOh but Jeremy Corbynâ |
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