Boris's Brain is missing

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Cugel
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Psamathe wrote: 12 Dec 2022, 4:00pm 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....
Ian
Spivs will be spivs. Why aren't policemen being policemen and judges being judges?

Ah, I was forgetting. The Establishment and its agents work for them, not we hoi-polloi. No doubt any demonstrators against The Monstrous Regiments of Tory Thieves will be had-up immediately by use of truncheons, gas and boot before being judged a danger to all right-thinking persons and sent to the Place Where Nasty Things Happen to traitors against the rightful Rule of Spiv.

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@Cugel
"Ah, I was forgetting. The Establishment and its agents work for them, not we hoi-polloi. No doubt any demonstrators against The Monstrous Regiments of Tory Thieves will be had-up immediately by use of truncheons, gas and boot before being judged a danger to all right-thinking persons and sent to the Place Where Nasty Things Happen to traitors against the rightful Rule of Spiv."

I'd like to think some exaggeration here, but, certainly in the near future, seems all too likely. "Disaster Capitalism" really is gaining momentum and will be with you soon.
In many ways Richy is far more dangerous than his two predecessors. He will not rest until replicated the huge divide between super-rich and extreme paupers in India here.
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"In what will be a high-stakes spectacle, major broadcasters are planning to air the entirety of the former prime minister’s testimony to parliament’s privileges committee, which is examining whether he misled MPs about law-breaking parties during the Covid pandemic."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... oadcast-tv

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It's perhaps worth remembering that the Can the Met be trusted thread was originally about whether they could be trusted to investigate "partygate"

viewtopic.php?p=1669817#p1669817

Some answers may emerge here
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NB date:
Best explainer yet:

"Nadhim Zahawi – the whole story":
https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/19/zahawi_story/

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Thanks Jonathan,proof positive :wink:
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Johnson received a £1million donation from a defense firm that was awarded an £80million MOD contract:- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-m ... tract-80m/
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Jdsk wrote: 20 Jan 2023, 1:39pm NB date:
Best explainer yet:

"Nadhim Zahawi – the whole story":
https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/19/zahawi_story/
Zahawi has issued a statement:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... deliberate

We'll see.

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Jdsk wrote: 21 Jan 2023, 2:37pm
Jdsk wrote: 20 Jan 2023, 1:39pm NB date:
Best explainer yet:

"Nadhim Zahawi – the whole story":
https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/19/zahawi_story/
Zahawi has issued a statement:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... deliberate

We'll see.

Jonathan
Two people Zahawi threatened to sue for telling the truth:- https://youtu.be/1BF-lld4roc
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"Richard Sharp, the BBC chairman, has announced that an internal inquiry will investigate allegations that he did not declare a conflict of interest when he was appointed to the job by Boris Johnson."

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Rishi Sunak has asked his independent ethics adviser to look into the Nadhim Zahawi case, as “clearly in this case there are questions that need answering”.

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Jdsk wrote: 23 Jan 2023, 10:55am "Richard Sharp, the BBC chairman, has announced that an internal inquiry will investigate allegations that he did not declare a conflict of interest when he was appointed to the job by Boris Johnson."
Johnson:

"This is a load of complete nonsense, absolute nonsense.
Let me just tell you – Richard Sharp is a good and a wise man. But he knows absolutely nothing about my personal finances, I can tell you that for 100% ding-dang sure.
This is just another example of the BBC disappearing up its own fundament."


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Jdsk wrote: 23 Jan 2023, 11:07am
Jdsk wrote: 23 Jan 2023, 10:55am "Richard Sharp, the BBC chairman, has announced that an internal inquiry will investigate allegations that he did not declare a conflict of interest when he was appointed to the job by Boris Johnson."
Johnson:

"This is a load of complete nonsense, absolute nonsense.
Let me just tell you – Richard Sharp is a good and a wise man. But he knows absolutely nothing about my personal finances, I can tell you that for 100% ding-dang sure.
This is just another example of the BBC disappearing up its own fundament."


Jonathan
And Johnson is a proven liar!
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Jdsk
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Jdsk wrote: 23 Jan 2023, 11:07am
Jdsk wrote: 23 Jan 2023, 10:55am "Richard Sharp, the BBC chairman, has announced that an internal inquiry will investigate allegations that he did not declare a conflict of interest when he was appointed to the job by Boris Johnson."
Johnson:

"This is a load of complete nonsense, absolute nonsense.
Let me just tell you – Richard Sharp is a good and a wise man. But he knows absolutely nothing about my personal finances, I can tell you that for 100% ding-dang sure.
This is just another example of the BBC disappearing up its own fundament."
Ah... the BBC inquiry will be restricted to what happened after he started work:

Screenshot 2023-01-23 at 15.51.57.png
https://twitter.com/Jake_Kanter/status/ ... 6549856257

So let's have another inquiry at the same time:

"The UK Commissioner for Public Appointments is to review the process behind the appointment of BBC Chair Richard Sharp as the fallout from the Boris Johnson loan scandal continues to be felt."
https://deadline.com/2023/01/boris-john ... 235237095/

Jonathan
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