Johnson propelled to leadership by donation channelled through a Russian bank

A lot of us care very much, but what can we do about it? I have contacted my (Tory) MP several times but he doesn't reply. I didn't vote for him last time and I won't vote for him next time, but what else is there? I'm disgusted by the sleaze and the corruption and embarrassed by how we look to the rest of the world. Maybe revolution is the only way...

How we are seen from abroad-

"Boris Johnson's government denied fresh accusations of corruption on Sunday morning in the second scandal to hit the Conservative party in less than a week. But how much is too much for the British public?

Voters in Britain awoke to fresh accusations of corruption against Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government Sunday morning as a newspaper investigation found donors to the Conservative Party had been offered seats in the House of Lords.

The Sunday Times reported that 15 out of a total of 16 Conservative treasurers over the last two decades had donated more than £3 million to the party and then been offered a seat in parliament's upper chamber.

In response the government denied corruption claims for the second time in less than a week following what has been dubbed a “sleaze scandal” involving former Conservative MP for North Shropshire, Owen Paterson.

Last week government watchdog the Parliamentary Commission for Standards found Paterson had repeatedly lobbied government and officials on behalf of two companies whom he was working for as a consultant for a fee of £100,000 a year."

www.france24.com/en/europe/20211107-boris-johnson-s-govt-is-mired-in-corruption-scandals-but-do-britons-care

The real shock is that most of us aren't shocked.

“BREAKING: Boris Johnson blocks publication of security service advice he received on Evgeny Lebedev.

MPs voted to compel release of all documents surrounding his peerage.

However, docs released today do not contain any such advice.

Total whitewash.”

Despair. Not just at the report, but at the fact that is so easy to believe that it is true.

If the report to the NCA was made over a year ago, have they ignored it or are they investigating it, I wonder. It may be very difficult to prove that the money represented proceeds of crime. I imagine an investigation would be long and complex.

No surprise there. Johnson got where he is because of Putin backing brexit. Having installed a useful idiot in the White House in 2016, Putin would naturally back Johnson to be his useful idiot in Downing Street