The 2019 election would seem to be the first that is different, the present incumbent administration is merely a cabal of rotters, thieves, and charlatans; certainly not a government.
Boris's Brain is missing
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Re: Boris's Brain is missing
...just as a postscript to this old chestnut of a thread, I'm reading Sonia Purnell's excellent biography of Johnson at the mo' - an absolute page turner - haven't put it down since I started! If you've ever wondered why & how on earth Johnson managed to survive as long as he did, it's all in the pages of this detailed and well-researched book.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/JUST-BORIS-Tal ... C73&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.co.uk/JUST-BORIS-Tal ... C73&sr=8-1
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Sounds as if the Heppinstall inquiry has reached Maxwellisation:Jdsk wrote: ↑12 Feb 2023, 9:09am "Appointment of Richard Sharp as Chair of the BBC":
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... #heading-3
The Select Committee thinks it stinks. Report is in plain language and only took a few days. Exemplary.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23465 ... ports-say/
Jonathan
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Report "expected":Jdsk wrote: ↑19 Apr 2023, 12:37pmSounds as if the Heppinstall inquiry has reached Maxwellisation:Jdsk wrote: ↑12 Feb 2023, 9:09am "Appointment of Richard Sharp as Chair of the BBC":
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... #heading-3
The Select Committee thinks it stinks. Report is in plain language and only took a few days. Exemplary.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23465 ... ports-say/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65414185
Jonathan
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Resigned:Jdsk wrote: ↑27 Apr 2023, 6:43pmReport "expected":Jdsk wrote: ↑19 Apr 2023, 12:37pmSounds as if the Heppinstall inquiry has reached Maxwellisation:Jdsk wrote: ↑12 Feb 2023, 9:09am "Appointment of Richard Sharp as Chair of the BBC":
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... #heading-3
The Select Committee thinks it stinks. Report is in plain language and only took a few days. Exemplary.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23465 ... ports-say/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65414185
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/ ... g-pressure
The Report:
https://publicappointmentscommissioner. ... -SHARP.pdf
And Sharp's statement on his resignation:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/state ... hard-sharp
Jonathan
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Now at £245,000. And the use of public funds wasn't approved by the Treasury.Jdsk wrote: ↑2 Feb 2023, 5:27pmAnd the National Audit Office is getting interested:Jdsk wrote: ↑26 Sep 2022, 1:28pmfrancovendee wrote: ↑21 Jul 2022, 11:51am Do you believe being under oath will make Johnson tell the truth? I certainly don't. He'll continue as before and bluster and avoid any direct answers to direct questions.Response by the Privileges Committee to Pannick's opinion:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... eport.html
And the application for review of the use of public funds to pay for it:
https://goodlawproject.org/news/the-pub ... -the-hook/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NV__H3 ... 0PRM1/view
(The first of those includes how to donate to support this.)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 74249.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65401587
Jonathan
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Probably in the wrong thread but I've just read about Matt Hancock's availability to covid ghouls set to make a packet out of it:- (Guadian sorry) https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... tt-hancock
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
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Early Day Motion requesting that he pays his own legal fees:Jdsk wrote: ↑10 May 2023, 8:01pmNow at £245,000. And the use of public funds wasn't approved by the Treasury.Jdsk wrote: ↑2 Feb 2023, 5:27pmAnd the National Audit Office is getting interested:Jdsk wrote: ↑26 Sep 2022, 1:28pm Response by the Privileges Committee to Pannick's opinion:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/c ... eport.html
And the application for review of the use of public funds to pay for it:
https://goodlawproject.org/news/the-pub ... -the-hook/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NV__H3 ... 0PRM1/view
(The first of those includes how to donate to support this.)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 74249.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65401587
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/60917
Jonathan
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The PPE scandal Robert Gos' company supplied £millions worth of useless PPE:- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid- ... Gy0iR35mvm
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"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
"All we are not stares back at what we are"
W H Auden
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"Boris Johnson referred to police by the Cabinet Office over visits by friends to Chequers and Downing Street while covid restrictions were in place. Met Police and Thames Valley Police confirm they are considering evidence"Jdsk wrote: ↑21 May 2023, 5:03pmEarly Day Motion requesting that he pays his own legal fees:Jdsk wrote: ↑10 May 2023, 8:01pmNow at £245,000. And the use of public funds wasn't approved by the Treasury.Jdsk wrote: ↑2 Feb 2023, 5:27pm And the National Audit Office is getting interested:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 74249.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65401587
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/60917
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/sta ... TDn40uAAAA
Extraordinary story. The government lawyers being paid public money to defend Johnson in the COVID inquiry read his diaries in order to prepare his defence. Which caused someone to refer the evidence that they contained to the police.
Jonathan
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KarmaJdsk wrote: ↑23 May 2023, 7:02pm"Boris Johnson referred to police by the Cabinet Office over visits by friends to Chequers and Downing Street while covid restrictions were in place. Met Police and Thames Valley Police confirm they are considering evidence"Jdsk wrote: ↑21 May 2023, 5:03pmEarly Day Motion requesting that he pays his own legal fees:Jdsk wrote: ↑10 May 2023, 8:01pm
Now at £245,000. And the use of public funds wasn't approved by the Treasury.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65401587
https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/60917
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/sta ... TDn40uAAAA
Extraordinary story. The government lawyers being paid public money to defend Johnson in the COVID inquiry read his diaries in order to prepare his defence. Which caused someone to refer the evidence that they contained to the police.
Jonathan
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Johnson's legal bills seem to be costing the taxpayer rather a lot. Money better spent eg given to food bank?
Ian
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I've been trying to work out which lawyers this was and what they were doing.roubaixtuesday wrote: ↑23 May 2023, 8:01pmKarmaJdsk wrote: ↑23 May 2023, 7:02pm "Boris Johnson referred to police by the Cabinet Office over visits by friends to Chequers and Downing Street while covid restrictions were in place. Met Police and Thames Valley Police confirm they are considering evidence"
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/sta ... TDn40uAAAA
Extraordinary story. The government lawyers being paid public money to defend Johnson in the COVID inquiry read his diaries in order to prepare his defence. Which caused someone to refer the evidence that they contained to the police.
We're suddenly one step closer to knowing... letter from Johnson to the COVID inquiry:
Jonathan
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And the letter from the Chair of the inquiry:
https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-co ... Office.pdf
Blimey.
Jonathan
https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-co ... Office.pdf
Blimey.
Jonathan