Boris's Brain is missing

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"Liz Truss's personal phone was hacked by Putin's spies for top secret details of negotiations with allies and private messages she exchanged with Kwasi Kwarteng":
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tions.html

And now someone unnamed is leaking this story to a newspaper.

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Jdsk wrote: 25 Oct 2022, 11:56am "'He's f**ked us!' The inside story on why Boris quit leadership race":
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expre ... ry-comment
"Boris Johnson had enough backers to challenge Rishi Sunak, says 1922 chair":
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rship-race

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Jdsk wrote: 4 Nov 2022, 11:21am
Jdsk wrote: 25 Oct 2022, 11:56am "'He's f**ked us!' The inside story on why Boris quit leadership race":
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expre ... ry-comment
"Boris Johnson had enough backers to challenge Rishi Sunak, says 1922 chair":
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rship-race

Jonathan
That sheds a new light on Sunak getting the job.
I'm sure if he'd have gone for the vote of the MP's he'd not have won. He also wouldn't have withdrawn from the contest so it would have been decided by members of the Tory party and we know they love him. I wonder what was said to him to stop him contesting the leadership race?
I can't believe he thought it best in the interests of the party or the country in making his decision.
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francovendee wrote: 4 Nov 2022, 12:54pm
Jdsk wrote: 4 Nov 2022, 11:21am
Jdsk wrote: 25 Oct 2022, 11:56am "'He's f**ked us!' The inside story on why Boris quit leadership race":
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expre ... ry-comment
"Boris Johnson had enough backers to challenge Rishi Sunak, says 1922 chair":
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rship-race

Jonathan
That sheds a new light on Sunak getting the job.
I'm sure if he'd have gone for the vote of the MP's he'd not have won. He also wouldn't have withdrawn from the contest so it would have been decided by members of the Tory party and we know they love him. I wonder what was said to him to stop him contesting the leadership race?
I can't believe he thought it best in the interests of the party or the country in making his decision.
Page 8 of today's Observer indicates he would have reduced his earning power by c50% on the 'World Circuit' if he'd lost to Sunak.
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Bonefishblues wrote: 6 Nov 2022, 9:07am
francovendee wrote: 4 Nov 2022, 12:54pm
Jdsk wrote: 4 Nov 2022, 11:21am
"Boris Johnson had enough backers to challenge Rishi Sunak, says 1922 chair":
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rship-race

Jonathan
That sheds a new light on Sunak getting the job.
I'm sure if he'd have gone for the vote of the MP's he'd not have won. He also wouldn't have withdrawn from the contest so it would have been decided by members of the Tory party and we know they love him. I wonder what was said to him to stop him contesting the leadership race?
I can't believe he thought it best in the interests of the party or the country in making his decision.
Page 8 of today's Observer indicates he would have reduced his earning power by c50% on the 'World Circuit' if he'd lost to Sunak.
That fits, I knew there would be something in it for him.
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Johnson's honours list. Possibly.
https://twitter.com/lara_spirit/status/ ... 7678984192

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Jdsk wrote: 22 Oct 2022, 10:42am
Jdsk wrote: 28 Sep 2022, 5:45pm
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.)
And the Government's response on the use of public funds:
https://questions-statements.parliament ... 9-05/47506
The leaks have started:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2d1c ... bc4b33bcd3
(Seems not to be paywalled... )
The inquiry now has its own FAQs!:
https://committees.parliament.uk/commit ... questions/

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George Eustice displaying yet another reason why the Tory government and Brexit has been and will continue to be an unmitigated disaster for my country:- https://youtu.be/8N_v9a7L7Zk
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I have a incling that more and more relevant commentators (ie not the utter stifling bores on the subject eg me and Owen Jones) are coming out of the woodwork to say exactly how, when and why Brexit was total rubbish.
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I've just been listening to useless Eustice making his pathetic excusses as to him knowing it was such a bad deal and doing nothing about it,it really was pitiful harkening the blatherings of such a spineless creature!
You know your country is being done up like a kipper in the hands of such an incompetent moron such as Liz Truss and you keep quiet about it,these people are beneath contempt!
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So Johnson now has a new ability/knowledge
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/02/boris-johnson-hails-blockchain-possibilities-at-singapore-conference wrote:Boris Johnson hails blockchain ‘possibilities’ at Singapore conference
Boris Johnson has given a speech to a conference on blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrency, as part of his lucrative post-No 10 lecture circuit, despite controversy around the industry following the multibillion-dollar collapse of the FTX exchange.
...
So he now knows all about block-chain.

Would you pay to listen to Johnson talk about block-chain? Those who know about it will probably wonder on what basis Johnson is claiming such expertise whilst those who don't know about it would certainly appreciate Johnson knows even less than they do (about block-chain).

And Hancock abandons Parliament and gets paid for external things with a great outcry (and losing the Conservative whip) whereas Johnson disappears off giving lucrative lecture tours and no outcry atall!

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Psamathe wrote: 2 Dec 2022, 4:16pm So Johnson now has a new ability/knowledge
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/02/boris-johnson-hails-blockchain-possibilities-at-singapore-conference wrote:Boris Johnson hails blockchain ‘possibilities’ at Singapore conference
Boris Johnson has given a speech to a conference on blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrency, as part of his lucrative post-No 10 lecture circuit, despite controversy around the industry following the multibillion-dollar collapse of the FTX exchange.
...
So he now knows all about block-chain.

Would you pay to listen to Johnson talk about block-chain? Those who know about it will probably wonder on what basis Johnson is claiming such expertise whilst those who don't know about it would certainly appreciate Johnson knows even less than they do (about block-chain).

And Hancock abandons Parliament and gets paid for external things with a great outcry (and losing the Conservative whip) whereas Johnson disappears off giving lucrative lecture tours and no outcry atall!

Ian

Boris is a cyclist, he may be talking about this?

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Jdsk wrote: 29 Apr 2022, 2:17pm "Michelle Mone’s home raided as PPE firm linked to Tory peer investigated":
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... helle-mone

Jonathan
With the news Ms Mone is asking for leave of absence until the scandal settles down I was wondering how the HoL will cope without her and
https://www.nationalworld.com/politics/baroness-michelle-mone-has-only-spoken-five-times-in-the-lords-since-2015-but-has-claimed-more-than-ps33000-3944107 wrote:Baroness Michelle Mone has only spoken five times in the Lords since 2015 - but has claimed more than £33,000
From her Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Mone,_Baroness_Mone#Attendance_in_House_of_Lords wrote:Mone had only attended the House of Lords on 12 % of the days in which it was sitting, missing important debates including on the Brexit bill.[44][29] Her low attendance led MSP Rona Mackay to label her the "Layabout Lady of Mayfair" and businessman Douglas Anderson, who had criticised her original appointment, called for her to resign.
So it looks like the biggest looser will be Ms Mone herself, not able to claim those fees.

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Now, with all the PPE purchased from Conservative supporters via a VIP channel, to dispose of iy you wont believe it but another Conservative donor gets a £4.5m contract!
https://goodlawproject.org/revealed-tory-donors-company-awarded-4-5-million-government-contract-to-take-care-of-mountain-of-unusable-ppe-waste/ wrote:REVEALED: Tory donor’s company awarded £4.5 million Government contract to take care of mountain of unusable PPE waste
Clipper Logistics – whose boss, Steven Parkin, has donated over £700,000 to the Party’s coffers – was previously awarded a contract worth at least £11 million to distribute PPE, without having to see off any competition.

This latest revelation – buried in thousands of procurement contracts published by the Government in line with its transparency obligations- shines the spotlight on how the Government’s cronies are profiting from both ends of the PPE scandal.
The Government is still spending around £2 million a week to store over 13 billion items of PPE which went unused as they did not meet NHS standards....
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The often omitted piece of key information about Michelle Mone and standing down from the HoL is that by standing down she doesn't have to declare the financial transactions she needs to implement to cover up her theft of taxpayers money.

If she remains in the HoL all these transactions must be declared
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