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Post by northwestman on Jul 30, 2021 22:14:52 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Aug 3, 2021 9:25:48 GMT 1
The chairman of the Conservative Party profited from giving ultra-wealthy clients of his concierge company Quintessentially access to Prince Charles, a major party donor alleges today.
Ben Elliot, 45, the Duchess of Cornwall’s nephew, introduced a member of the “elite” tier of his luxury concierge company to the future king after he had paid his company tens of thousands of pounds.
Mohamed Amersi, 61, a telecoms millionaire, had paid an annual fee of £15,000 to be an elite member of Quintessentially, Elliot’s luxury business, for several years before it organised in 2013 for him to fly to meet the prince over an intimate dinner at Dumfries House in Scotland.
Asked if Elliot was in effect operating a pay-to-play scheme, Amersi replied: “You call it pay-to-play, I call it access capitalism. It’s the same point. You get access, you get invitations, you get privileged relationships if you are part of the set-up, and where you are financially making a contribution to be a part of that set up. Absolutely.”
The allegations come after Amersi revealed the existence of a new Conservative “advisory board” whereby donors, some of whom have given more than £250,000 to the party, hold meetings with Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor.
Elliot, though a prolific fundraiser for the party, has already been touched by two major funding scandals. Last year he faced questions over why he allowed the billionaire Richard Desmond to be seated next to Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, at a fundraiser shortly before the government ruled on Desmond’s development plans. He was hauled before the 1922 committee of Tory backbenchers last summer to explain the mistake, and is said to have promised the same mistake would not happen again.
Earlier this year, leaked emails relating to the prime minister’s controversial refurbishment of his Downing Street flat, showed that Elliot was copied into crucial emails discussing ways party donations could be used for the redecorations.
The Times.
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Post by SeanBroseley on Aug 3, 2021 20:03:00 GMT 1
The initial allegation was generated within the Labour Party. Something that has not been widely reported. Her politics isn't to the liking of everyone in the local and regionl party. I don't know what sort of sentence she would have faced if found guilty, but I have little doubt that the characters that inhabit Labour Party regional offices would have not batted an eyelid at a custodial sentence.
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Post by PeterBroadbent on Aug 9, 2021 19:43:49 GMT 1
You are joking... 7 million? BBC News - Greensill: David Cameron 'made $10m' before company’s collapse www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58149765He needs to be in jail... and the damage for Brexit... should add on another 25 years
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Post by northwestman on Aug 11, 2021 11:10:31 GMT 1
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9882817/David-Cameron-landed-genomics-giant-Illumina-123m-contract-writing-Hancock.htmlDavid Cameron's employer won a £123million contract after the ex-prime minister lobbied Matt Hancock to appear at a genomics conference, reports indicate. Mr Cameron, a paid adviser for US biotech gene-sequencing company Illumina, told Mr Hancock he 'strongly endorsed' the firm's invitation to the then-Health Secretary in April 2019. After receiving Mr Cameron's letter, written from his taxpayer-funded post-prime ministerial office, Mr Hancock agreed to go to the conference, The Times reports. Mr Cameron had also met vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi in March to discuss genetic sequencing, and Illumina was given further contracts with Public Health England worth up to £870,000, the Times reports. Freedom of information disclosures have also reportedly revealed that health ministers Nadine Dorries, Helen Whately and Jo Churchill received lobbying letters from Illumina.
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Post by Minormorris64 on Aug 11, 2021 14:37:56 GMT 1
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Post by martinshrew on Aug 11, 2021 14:48:52 GMT 1
I've said it once, I'll say it again ... They're all at it to varying degrees.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Aug 11, 2021 15:45:55 GMT 1
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9882817/David-Cameron-landed-genomics-giant-Illumina-123m-contract-writing-Hancock.htmlDavid Cameron's employer won a £123million contract after the ex-prime minister lobbied Matt Hancock to appear at a genomics conference, reports indicate. Mr Cameron, a paid adviser for US biotech gene-sequencing company Illumina, told Mr Hancock he 'strongly endorsed' the firm's invitation to the then-Health Secretary in April 2019. After receiving Mr Cameron's letter, written from his taxpayer-funded post-prime ministerial office, Mr Hancock agreed to go to the conference, The Times reports. Mr Cameron had also met vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi in March to discuss genetic sequencing, and Illumina was given further contracts with Public Health England worth up to £870,000, the Times reports. Freedom of information disclosures have also reportedly revealed that health ministers Nadine Dorries, Helen Whately and Jo Churchill received lobbying letters from Illumina. the level of sleeze is depresing im sure it has always gone one but now it is blatent and on a industrial scale and non of them get punished,what is the point of the select commitee
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Post by northwestman on Aug 12, 2021 9:19:17 GMT 1
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Post by zenfootball2 on Aug 12, 2021 16:24:35 GMT 1
the problem is that such sleeze seems deeply rooted in our political system which the various comities completely fail to deal with, it feels like an outside body needs to have the power to root it out but that is not going to happen.
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Post by northwestman on Aug 14, 2021 11:00:11 GMT 1
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9891621/Len-McCluskey-told-reveal-spent-cover-fling-Jeremy-Corbyn-aide.htmlLen McCluskey is under pressure to reveal how much union money he spent on concealing the fact of his relationship with Jeremy Corbyn's former chief of staff. The outgoing Unite general secretary will use his forthcoming memoir to finally confirm his romance with Karie Murphy. Mr McCluskey, nicknamed 'Red Len' and a key ally of the former Labour leader, is now facing scrutiny about his use of funds provided by Unite members after he boasted about engaging the union's lawyers to suppress reports about their relationship in a game of 'cat and mouse' with the Press.
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Post by SeanBroseley on Aug 15, 2021 0:21:49 GMT 1
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9891621/Len-McCluskey-told-reveal-spent-cover-fling-Jeremy-Corbyn-aide.htmlLen McCluskey is under pressure to reveal how much union money he spent on concealing the fact of his relationship with Jeremy Corbyn's former chief of staff. The outgoing Unite general secretary will use his forthcoming memoir to finally confirm his romance with Karie Murphy. Mr McCluskey, nicknamed 'Red Len' and a key ally of the former Labour leader, is now facing scrutiny about his use of funds provided by Unite members after he boasted about engaging the union's lawyers to suppress reports about their relationship in a game of 'cat and mouse' with the Press. Slightly off topic - neither of them are in parliament.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2021 11:27:01 GMT 1
I've said it once, I'll say it again ... They're all at it to varying degrees. Bit like antisemitism 👍
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Post by SeanBroseley on Aug 16, 2021 8:57:16 GMT 1
Comparing David Cameron with the Green Party councillor provides some clarity about how power operates in the UK. As a member of the upper class Cameron operates in the stratospheric levels of personal relationships where everyone that is anyone matters and know each other. The rest of us don't register. With these stratospheric levels come stratospehric rewards that comes with having the stratospheric contact list on your mobile device.
The Green Councillor has captured an income stream through administrative rules that come into place once you are elected as a councillor.
For some people the latter is a greater assault on sensibilities because, unlike Cameron, he's not clearly of higher status than ourselves, and therefore there isn't an element of people thinking "good on him".
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Post by SeanBroseley on Aug 18, 2021 16:14:25 GMT 1
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Post by martinshrew on Aug 19, 2021 18:00:33 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2021 18:52:27 GMT 1
Makes you wonder with his past history why he was ever selected as a candidate.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2021 19:22:15 GMT 1
I genuinely hope he gets banged up, along with every other crook in parliament. High time those that break the rules felt the full force of the law in my opinion. I’m my view just because they’re all at it should not be an excuse. Instead root them out and lock em up. Top to bottom!👍
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Post by northwestman on Aug 19, 2021 20:45:31 GMT 1
Upon joining Parliament, O'Mara became a member of the Women and Equalities Select Committee but resigned from this in October 2017, after publication of offensive comments about women and gay men he had made in 2009 and earlier. He was suspended from the Labour Party later in October following further reporting of online comments made before his election described as racist, homophobic and misogynistic. He subsequently sat as an independent MP. In July 2019, he announced he would resign as an MP after the Parliamentary summer recess, but in fact he eventually stood down only at the December 2019 general election. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_O%27Mara
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Post by northwestman on Sept 17, 2021 14:56:58 GMT 1
Lord Bethell loses his job as Health Minister. Perhaps he can now find the time to locate his mobile phone! goodlawproject.org/update/ever-growing-mystery-missing-phone/Plus: Back in June, No 10 issued a blanket denial that Ministers ever used private email accounts for Government business. But now their own lawyers have confirmed searches of Lord Bethell’s three private email addresses using keywords relating to Covid contracts turned up hits of between 18,000 and 36,000 separate documents that may be relevant to the case.
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Post by Dancin on Sept 23, 2021 13:05:49 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Oct 4, 2021 20:46:45 GMT 1
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Post by armchairfan on Oct 4, 2021 20:52:31 GMT 1
What a strange coincidence that this revelation is published just as the Tory conference begins.....
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Post by staffordshrew on Oct 4, 2021 20:52:54 GMT 1
We have ignition!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2021 21:11:38 GMT 1
Yeh but Jeremy Corbyn wore a black mac to the cenotaph!
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Post by SeanBroseley on Oct 4, 2021 21:13:01 GMT 1
The world revolves around the Conservative Party.....
The Pandora Papers were leaked by an international organisation of journalists in October - the documentation relates to people and organisations around the world.
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Post by SeanBroseley on Oct 4, 2021 21:13:27 GMT 1
Yeh but Jeremy Corbyn wore a black mac to the cenotaph! Worse than that he did a little dance.
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Post by northwestman on Oct 4, 2021 21:16:02 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/04/government-shell-companies-dodge-tax-bribes-pandora-papersIf it feels as if the secrets revealed by the Pandora papers – the biggest ever leak of offshore data – are familiar, that’s because they are. A Ukrainian president, a former British prime minister, a friend of Vladimir Putin, they all featured in the Panama papers – which uncovered the financial information of more than 200,000 offshore businesses – back in 2016. Here we are five years later, reading about them all over again. The individuals may be different: it’s Tony Blair this time, not David Cameron; Ukraine has a new president; and the Putin friend is an oil trader, not a cellist. But the essential details are the same. Anyone able to afford the entry fee still has access to a financial network denied to the rest of us; and it follows that no one in power has done anything substantive about it in the past half-decade. At the core of the three great leaks – the Panama, Paradise and Pandora papers, as well as at the heart of many smaller ones – is one single tool: the shell company, which has been used time and again by powerful people to hide their activities from fellow citizens, tax authorities and law enforcement agencies. It is perhaps the most damaging thing ever invented, since it facilitates the theft of hundreds of billions of pounds a year, while defeating investigators – no matter how determined they are, or how powerful the country, cause or corporation they represent.
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Post by salop27 on Oct 4, 2021 21:40:36 GMT 1
You can't describe this as Parliamentary sleeve as the rules for accepting donations have not been broken. 12 million files to go through and the worst they can come up with is some alleged connections to Tory donors and the Blairs skipping some stamp duty in a legal manner.
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Post by staffordshrew on Oct 4, 2021 21:43:28 GMT 1
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