... and the sleaze goes on ...

Lucca

Re the flat improvements

When it was suggested that the flat was ok as was, one Tory said that you can’t expect the PM to live in a skip.

Whitewavemark2

Lucca

Re the flat improvements

When it was suggested that the flat was ok as was, one Tory said that you can’t expect the PM to live in a skip.

These people are unreal, aren't they?

How do they manage to get votes from the working classes? Or anyone, really?

Whitewavemark1 I think we need Dinahmo who has more Company knowledge than I have.

I would have thought that however the Company is structured if it is registered in the UK that Accounts in some form would have to be submitted annually?

Do we have to have the hijacking? Are the Con fans so afraid of talking about what their party and its leader is doing.

Could we just ignore the strawman posts?

pippa good idea

PippaZ

Do we have to have the hijacking? Are the Con fans so afraid of talking about what their party and its leader is doing.

Could we just ignore the strawman posts?

Grany posted about Prince Andrew, Whitewavemark2 responded neither are Con fans (Unless they have seen the light )

I responded to their posts!!!!

True and sorry. I have so far avoided all the RF posts and couldn't believe it had crept in elsewhere. I should have read it properly and not tried to do two things at once.

I notice the HuffPost has picked up on the Good Law information. This blending of party and government is really no suprise and yes, it is certainly very Trumpian.

PippaZ it’s no secret that I am a Conservative. If all these allegations are proven I shall find myself politically homeless

You would be joining many of us GrannyGravy13. In some ways a complete collapse and re-organisation could be a blessing but I doubt that would happen - but then I didn't foresee a pandemic so no good relying on my predictions

Jonathan Lis

Today feels like a turning point. The Electoral Commission believes reasonable grounds to suspect an offence. Johnson rattled and deflecting at PMQs. The crisis gathering momentum and its various strands steadily converging. Every prime minister is invincible until they aren’t.

Mr. Dysons version of events.

Once Johnson has made his WhatsApp and text messages available we can begin to piece together the truth.

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Just to see the sort of items Johnson is spending his? money on, this is allegedly the table purchased for £3000. Also wallpaper at £840 a roll.

GrannyGravy13

Whitewavemark1 I think we need Dinahmo who has more Company knowledge than I have.

I would have thought that however the Company is structured if it is registered in the UK that Accounts in some form would have to be submitted annually?

It's an unlimited liability company which means it's not required to file accounts at Companies House. It's rare because the vast majority of people setting companies require the protection of limited liability. So if you set up a company with £100 share capital, that is the limit of the shareholders' liability.

I seem to remember that when Dyson relocated his company HQ to Singapore, and was accused of doing it for tax reasons, he said that there would only be two of his staff moving there so tax had nothing to do with it. Really?

Thank you Dinahmo I knew you would know

Going back to yesterday and PMQs I do have to say I think Johnson showed just how he looks in a temper. Keir Starmer had done his usual forensic questioning for Johnson to reply "The right honourable and learned gentleman is a lawyer, I am given to understand.”

When you start such mean-minded, playground comments, that insult one of the countries highly thought of QCs and, by implication, insult the office of state that he held you are clearly out of your depth.

This being the case he should surely just come clean.

Eddie Mair interviewed Boris Johnson before he became PM and challenged him on his past behaviour including offering to give the address of someone he wanted "duffed up"". For once the waffling and bumbling act did not work. Eddie Mair told him that the truth was that he was "a nasfy piece of work".

He was right, wasn't he?

A group of Doctors are in court this morning bring a case against the government and the dodgy PPE contracts.

Hope they get somewhere.

varian

Eddie Mair interviewed Boris Johnson before he became PM and challenged him on his past behaviour including offering to give the address of someone he wanted "duffed up"". For once the waffling and bumbling act did not work. Eddie Mair told him that the truth was that he was "a nasfy piece of work".

He was right, wasn't he?

Was that where Johnson tried to get another journalist beaten up?

Yes. Eddie Mair was standing in for Andrew Marr on his Sunday morning show and was possibly more direct in his questioning than AM might have been .

Perhaps that may be one of the reasons that Eddie Mair no longer works for the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation.

A new report has revealed that £2.1billion worth of COVID contracts were handed to companies politically connected to the Conservative Party.

Many of these will have benefited from access to a 'VIP lane', knowledge of which appeared to be "confined to only those within the party of government in Westminster".

Unlock Democracy is supporting calls for a fully independent inquiry and today we are launching a new action targeting tainted donations.

We're writing to the Conservative Party Treasurer asking him to hand over donations received from individuals and companies that benefited unfairly from COVID contracts.

We believe the money should go to the NHS.

secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/81458/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=email&ea.url.id=5281041

I think calling it “sleeze ” minimises the extent of the problem.
It brushes over what is basically corruption, lies, fraud, cronyism...
Just calling it “sleeze” sounds as though some of it is really petty - or even made-up.
It is not.

Criminality caused by greed and an unwarranted sense of entitlement.

"Rules only apply to the little people - not people like us"

"Isn't it just brilliant that the little people keep voting for us?"

NotSpaghetti

I think calling it “sleeze ” minimises the extent of the problem.
It brushes over what is basically corruption, lies, fraud, cronyism...
Just calling it “sleeze” sounds as though some of it is really petty - or even made-up.
It is not.

Totally agree. IT IS NOT