Establishment networking, sleaze and corruption. A handy compendium.

[teqniq]

They have a piece about this on their site, also a link to a petition:

Handing out peerages - Good Law Project

Peter – or Baron, as for now we must call him – Cruddas was once a Treasurer of the Conservative Party. In March 2012 the Sunday Times published a rather mean piece about him which included the claim that (as the Court put it) “in return for cash donations to the Conservative Party, [he]...

goodlawproject.org

 

[Lorca]

It's a new day, so it must be time for a new bout of networking sleaze!

Billionaire donated £150,000 to Tories 48 hours after housing scheme approved

John Bloor, 77, handed £150,000 to the Conservative Party, shortly after ministers backed the finding of an independent planning inspector over 625 homes

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[MrSki]

It's a new day, so it must be time for a new bout of networking sleaze!

Billionaire donated £150,000 to Tories 48 hours after housing scheme approved

John Bloor, 77, handed £150,000 to the Conservative Party, shortly after ministers backed the finding of an independent planning inspector over 625 homes

www.mirror.co.uk

Fucking cunts.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

What a surprise:

Whenever I've been caught breaking the law I have to appear in court and pretend I'm sorry for whatever it is I've done and suck up the punishment. What's the point in endlessly finding ministers to have broken the law but it ends right there?

 

[teqniq]

The vermin shutting down any and all avenues of criticism/potential means of prosecution:

Electoral Commission to be stripped of power to prosecute after probe into Boris Johnson’s flat makeover

Condemnation of ‘government power grab’ - as minister claims prosecutions of alleged lawbreaking ‘waste public money’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[two sheds]

"a purist attitude to the law" is almost up there with "simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of fair play"

 

[Badgers]

 

[existentialist]

It's no wonder that the government is trying to throw shade on crowd funded lawsuits. The lawsuit about THAT one will be interesting.

 

[Badgers]

Oil firm led by Tory donor investigated over alleged bribes in nine countries

UK-based Petrofac accused of making payments over more than 15 years to secure contracts

www.theguardian.com

 

[two sheds]

Not that they'll be found guilty if The Party has anything to do with it, but isn't it strange how we minions get charged with receiving stolen goods but they just seem to keep the stolen/bribes money.

 

[teqniq]

More dirt:

EXCLUSIVE: Six more VIP-lane companies revealed - Good Law Project

Good Law Project is now able to reveal the names of six more companies awarded PPE contracts through the controversial’ VIP’ fast-track lane for associates of ministers and advisers. These six firms landed nearly half a billion pounds of public contracts – all without competition – and were...

goodlawproject.org

 

[teqniq]

Yet more dirt, lampost and rope anyone?

Government accused of channeling Covid emergency cash into political ‘campaigning’

Boris Johnson told to launch inquiry after cash apparently spend on polling

www.independent.co.uk

 

[teqniq]

Update from today's Court hearing

r.mail.crowdjustice.co.uk

"Update on Just how does public money end up in the pockets of Cummings' friends?

We are pleased to report that the High Court has ordered the Government to pay 75% of our costs in our successful legal challenge against Michael Gove for the unlawful award of a contract to associates of his and Dominic Cummings at Public First.
Government had planned to ask for permission to appeal the ruling but last night decided this wouldn’t be wise and withdrew, belatedly accepting their conduct over the Public First contract had been unlawful.
They did however still attempt to argue in Court today at the costs hearing that we hadn’t won on every ground in our challenge, so the Court should make a costs order which reflects the ‘relative success of both parties’. Yet however Government try to spin this ruling in the press, the Judge today was crystal clear as to who won this case:

“In this case, it is clear to the court that the claimant (Good Law Project) was the overall successful party in the case...it sought a ruling that the decision to award the contract to Public First was unlawful, and the Court has made a ruling to that effect. Also, it was successful in defeating the Defendant’s arguments about standing.”

Our work is far from over, but for now, we take a moment to celebrate this win. Thank you, as ever, for all your support. "

 

[existentialist]

Update from today's Court hearing

r.mail.crowdjustice.co.uk

"Update on Just how does public money end up in the pockets of Cummings' friends?

We are pleased to report that the High Court has ordered the Government to pay 75% of our costs in our successful legal challenge against Michael Gove for the unlawful award of a contract to associates of his and Dominic Cummings at Public First.
Government had planned to ask for permission to appeal the ruling but last night decided this wouldn’t be wise and withdrew, belatedly accepting their conduct over the Public First contract had been unlawful.
They did however still attempt to argue in Court today at the costs hearing that we hadn’t won on every ground in our challenge, so the Court should make a costs order which reflects the ‘relative success of both parties’. Yet however Government try to spin this ruling in the press, the Judge today was crystal clear as to who won this case:

“In this case, it is clear to the court that the claimant (Good Law Project) was the overall successful party in the case...it sought a ruling that the decision to award the contract to Public First was unlawful, and the Court has made a ruling to that effect. Also, it was successful in defeating the Defendant’s arguments about standing.”

Our work is far from over, but for now, we take a moment to celebrate this win. Thank you, as ever, for all your support. "

These people are gods.

Or at least the nearest thing to it we're likely to see in the foreseeable future, and certainly god-like by comparison to the demons cavorting orgiastically in the Tory party.

 

[Dystopiary]

"Why we are referring a series of transactions involving the Prime Minister's advisor Munira Mirza, Priti Patel and Matt Hancock to the Serious Fraud Office. THREAD."



Government's position has always been that the award of PPE contracts was a politically neutral process. Its usual formulation is that all PPE contracts were awarded pursuant to "the same eight-stage process to assess and process offers." See for example https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/u...-procurement-during-the-COVID-19-pandemic.pdf

However, @GoodLawProject has uncovered evidence that go-betweens who had little apparent to offer apart from their political connections were paid vast sums of money to deliver contracts.

We don't believe there is any 'good' explanation for this fact. We believe it points powerfully to the process being corrupt. And (as we will show) certain details of the process itself point in the same direction. That is why we are referring the matter to @UKSFO.

 

[teqniq]

Fair play to the Good Law Project for referring all this to the SFO bu tbh i haven't got a great deal of faith in them. They are too willing to cave in to political pressure to drop investigations, even ones that are live. Witness the Saudi bribes and BAE systems scandal which Blair leant on them to drop.

 

[Dogsauce]

Not sure what the consequences of the GLP stuff are, nobody will do time or have to send the money back, it just feels like an expensive and probably pointless gotcha.

I guess if anything it might help in sorting out the order of the gallows stuff, come the revolution.

 

[MrSki]

Not sure what the consequences of the GLP stuff are, nobody will do time or have to send the money back, it just feels like an expensive and probably pointless gotcha.

I guess if anything it might help in sorting out the order of the gallows stuff, come the revolution.

If anything it has made the cunts in charge a bit more wary of dishing out the cash to mates. That has made it worth it even if no-one ends up banged up.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Back in the good old days just after the Empire collapsed, we had speculators and asset strippers beavering away in the shadows between legal and illegal, making fortunes as a result. Now we have no decent assets left apart from what is nominally owned by the public. It’s not that politicians are corrupt and outsiders want to scavenge what was always previously considered as sacrosanct-we expect that - it’s just how fucking cheaply they can be bought that is astounding. So petty and seedy. Crap politicians

 

[teqniq]

Nothing to see here....

 

[Badgers]

 

[teqniq]

Yet more dirt which gives the lie to their statements to the contrary:

NEW: leaked emails reveal Health Minister Lord Bethell did use personal email address for Government business - Good Law Project

A Number 10 spokesperson has explicitly denied that Government Ministers have used private email addresses: “Both the former health secretary and Lord Bethell understand the rules around personal email usage and only ever conducted government business through their departmental email addresses”...

goodlawproject.org

 

[MrSki]

Yet more dirt which gives the lie to their statements to the contrary:

NEW: leaked emails reveal Health Minister Lord Bethell did use personal email address for Government business - Good Law Project

A Number 10 spokesperson has explicitly denied that Government Ministers have used private email addresses: “Both the former health secretary and Lord Bethell understand the rules around personal email usage and only ever conducted government business through their departmental email addresses”...

goodlawproject.org

Every minister that used personal emails should be sacked & prosecuted. It is well out of order & none of these emails will appear in an inquiry when it happens.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Defenestration should be mandatory for politicians using private email

 

[two sheds]

Harsh but fair

 

[Streathamite]

"a purist attitude to the law" is almost up there with "simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of fair play"

I've met both Aitken and Johnson - and the former is a moral and ethical titan, in comparison

 

[Dystopiary]

Number 10 confirms it.

 

[Dystopiary]

Tory MP Danny Kruger has said that "the accusation that the government has been corrupt in handing out cash to their mates is a conspiracy theory on a par with anti-vax conspiracy theories."

Does anybody believe this shit I wonder.

 

[Chilli.s]

How much did Danny (or a close family member/friend) get then

 

[teqniq]

Does not seem right to me at all, case thrown out because of wrong email address:

We do not believe that is what the law should be or is - Good Law Project

The Government Legal Department requires new claims to be served on a particular email address. Our lawyers served (1) on 27 April 2021 an “unsealed” (i.e. yet to be stamped by the Court) copy of the claim form on that address and (2) on 28 April a sealed copy of the claim form to three […]

goodlawproject.org

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