Boris Johnson’s former ethics adviser Lord Geidt is said to believe that claims the PM tried to appoint his future wife Carrie to a top government job could be “ripe” for investigation.
A report published in the first edition of The Times on Saturday alleged that Mr Johnson had attempted to install his then-girlfriend in a £100,000-a-year job in the Foreign Office in 2018.
The story was pulled from later editions after No 10 intervened, and Ms Johnson’s spokesperson described it as “totally untrue”, but Downing Street has so far refused to comment on the claim.
WTF is happening in the UK?
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Don’t think that this went the way GB News expected
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From someone who works on the railways...
Three years ago we accepted a 0% pay rise, two years ago we accepted a 0% pay rise. But this year they came to us with a 0% pay rise plus over 2500 redundancies, changes to terms and conditions. An increase from 28 weeks of nights to 39 weeks of nights. An increase from 32 weekends worked to 39 weekends worked.
Currently for a night shift we get time and a quarter, for a weekend turn we get time and a half. They wish to cut both of these to time and a tenth. So that’s a 15% pay cut on every night shift and a 40% pay cut on every weekend turn. But they want us to work more of them. This is their modernisation they talk about. Not technology, we embrace technology and have seen more and more of it in recent years. They also wish to fire and re-hire the operative grades and bring them back under a new job title but on £9000 a year less. They also want them to use their own vehicles to get to work sites, this when fuel is at its highest. They will also be pooled when currently they are part of the team. The press are painting this to be about pay above all else. It is not. But now we’ve said sod them we are going to demand better. I wish everyone could see past the government controlled media smear
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By the way, the Deutsches Bundesbahn is also on strike. Only one word missing: AGAIN.
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Not a single mention of today’s by-elections on the Fail website, strange that
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..and some people say we should welcome multi-culturism into our society. Certainly not this kind.
Vile savages, utterly vile!!!
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I've been listening to Tory politicians' excuses for yesterday's byelection results. Every reason given except one. Nobody has mentioned The Convict. Bumbling lying fool that he is. The Prikster kept saying Boris is going to "deliver" for Britain. Deliver what?
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And listening to Trigger, aka Jacob Rees-Mogg, talking about voltage and frequency of imported vacuum cleaners. What he knows about THAT could be written on the head of a quantum particle and inserted up his a*se for all the good it would do to justify the Johnson version of Brexit. And as for metric fish fingers....
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Stolen from LBC
Former BBC Trust chairman Lord Chris Patten: "Look, the words 'Nadine Dorries' and 'culture' should not appear in the same sentence."
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He delivered Brexit some time ago. I was expecting them to have dumped him shortly after that, and I wonder if they're wishing they'd done it too.OFSO wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:21 amI've been listening to Tory politicians' excuses for yesterday's byelection results. Every reason given except one. Nobody has mentioned The Convict. Bumbling lying fool that he is. The Prikster kept saying Boris is going to "deliver" for Britain. Deliver what?
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The Prince of Wales accepted a suitcase containing a million euros in cash from a former Qatari prime minister, the Sunday Times has reported.
The paper says this was one of three cash donations from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim totalling three million euros.
Clarence House said donations from the sheikh were passed immediately to one of the prince's charities and all the correct processes were followed.
There is no suggestion the payments were illegal.
According to the Sunday Times, Prince Charles received the three cash donations in person from the former prime minister between 2011 and 2015.
It is claimed that on one occasion the money was handed over in a holdall at a meeting at Clarence House. On another, the paper reported the cash was contained in carrier bags from the department store Fortnum and Mason.
Didn't anyone wonder why a donation made to a Prince of the Realm was made in cash banknotes?
Legitimate multi million Pound/Dollar/Euro transactions are made bank-to-bank, not in suitcases or shopping bags full of banknotes.
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Criminals are not the only users of cash.
Indeed, entire banks now exist solely for money laundering, arguably entire countries (e.g. Nigeria, Cayman Islands)
anyway, totally above board - F&M carrier bags!
Dodgy money is always in Tesco bags
Indeed, entire banks now exist solely for money laundering, arguably entire countries (e.g. Nigeria, Cayman Islands)
anyway, totally above board - F&M carrier bags!
Dodgy money is always in Tesco bags
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The UK government has taken a stake in a sex party startup
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/business ... index.html
British taxpayers now officially hold shares in a company that throws sex parties.
A government loan provided to Killing Kittens to help it through the pandemic has converted into an equity stake in the company, the British Business Bank confirmed on Tuesday.
Killing Kittens, which organizes women-led adult parties in cities including London and New York, secured the investment in 2020 from the UK government’s Future Fund, which was designed to help startups survive the coronavirus pandemic.
The company was founded by Emma Sayle in 2005, and organizes members-only parties in exclusive venues where “established gender stereotypes” are challenged, according to its website. It recorded a 330% increase in traffic to its website during coronavirus lockdowns, and now calls itself “the fastest-growing adult social network.”
At one point, the pandemic forced the company to move all its events and workshops online, accelerating existing plans to enter the sex tech industry — a fast-growing sector that encompasses products and businesses focused on enhancing sexual experiences.
Killing Kittens now has a mobile app that allows users to meet each other “for casual dating, friendship, kink partners or a long-term relationship,” according to a description on its website.
The government’s Future Fund previously awarded the company a loan of £170,000 ($221,780). The program, which is funded from tax revenue, typically provides debt financing of between £125,000 ($153,000) and £5 million ($6.1 million) to companies, subject to them at least matching the funding from private investors.
The government has picked up stakes in many other companies through the fund. As of this March, 337 convertible loans it had awarded to firms across the country also turned into equity after those players raised further funds.
Asked about the Killing Kittens investment on Tuesday, a British Business Bank spokesperson said that “applications that met all the eligibility criteria received investment.”
“The Future Fund used a set of standard terms with published eligibility criteria,” the representative added in a statement. “The process provided a clear, efficient way to make funding available as widely and as swiftly as possible without the need for lengthy negotiations.”
Killing Kittens did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After the initial investment in 2020, Sayle joked that she had never “envisaged Boris as a sleeping partner,” referring to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/28/business ... index.html
British taxpayers now officially hold shares in a company that throws sex parties.
A government loan provided to Killing Kittens to help it through the pandemic has converted into an equity stake in the company, the British Business Bank confirmed on Tuesday.
Killing Kittens, which organizes women-led adult parties in cities including London and New York, secured the investment in 2020 from the UK government’s Future Fund, which was designed to help startups survive the coronavirus pandemic.
The company was founded by Emma Sayle in 2005, and organizes members-only parties in exclusive venues where “established gender stereotypes” are challenged, according to its website. It recorded a 330% increase in traffic to its website during coronavirus lockdowns, and now calls itself “the fastest-growing adult social network.”
At one point, the pandemic forced the company to move all its events and workshops online, accelerating existing plans to enter the sex tech industry — a fast-growing sector that encompasses products and businesses focused on enhancing sexual experiences.
Killing Kittens now has a mobile app that allows users to meet each other “for casual dating, friendship, kink partners or a long-term relationship,” according to a description on its website.
The government’s Future Fund previously awarded the company a loan of £170,000 ($221,780). The program, which is funded from tax revenue, typically provides debt financing of between £125,000 ($153,000) and £5 million ($6.1 million) to companies, subject to them at least matching the funding from private investors.
The government has picked up stakes in many other companies through the fund. As of this March, 337 convertible loans it had awarded to firms across the country also turned into equity after those players raised further funds.
Asked about the Killing Kittens investment on Tuesday, a British Business Bank spokesperson said that “applications that met all the eligibility criteria received investment.”
“The Future Fund used a set of standard terms with published eligibility criteria,” the representative added in a statement. “The process provided a clear, efficient way to make funding available as widely and as swiftly as possible without the need for lengthy negotiations.”
Killing Kittens did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
After the initial investment in 2020, Sayle joked that she had never “envisaged Boris as a sleeping partner,” referring to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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Reading the latest edition of Private Eye, the above story from PP becomes self explanatory
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If you trawl Twatter you will find out why BoJo is now known as BloJo.
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Spot Carrie
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Gavin Williamson has taken a £50,000-a-year second job as an adviser to a firm that runs private schools, university courses and education investments – less than a year after leaving the role of education secretary.
Allegedly he walked into the room where BJ was getting his bj, so this is his payoff
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BBC - Allegedly = "We just made this up"
Woody - Allegedly = "Gospel, but I don't want to be sued"
Gavin Williamson - developed by BAe as the UK's first highly destructive semi-autonomous drone, aka the Baykhander.
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Gavin Williamson - developed by BAe as the UK's first highly destructive semi-autonomous drone, aka the Baykhander.
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Another one falls on his (pork)sword to keep the Boris story out of the press.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62002088
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