Establishment networking, sleaze and corruption. A handy compendium.

[stdP]

Some sickening bias from OpenDemocracy again, in an article on MPs raking it in hand-over-fist by taking lucrative second jobs they make a point of only mentioning Tories

MPs net £6m from second jobs since pandemic began

Exclusive: Opposition MPs call for ban on ‘moonlighting’ as it’s revealed an ex-PM and a cabinet minister are among highest earners

www.opendemocracy.net

 

[Badgers]

The 24 MPs with official complaints against them who voted to overturn sleaze watchdog

Breaches range from renting out properties on Airbnb and failing to declare the income, to offering tours of the Houses of Parliament as raffle prizes

inews.co.uk

 

[Badgers]

No 10 declines to rule out potential peerage for Owen Paterson

Tory MP quit Commons on Thursday hours after Boris Johnson withdrew his support for him in lobbying row

www.theguardian.com

 

[Badgers]

 

[Badgers]

Not fact checked this but sounds familiar

UK logistics firm given almost £800m of Covid contracts without tender

Uniserve is largest recipient of pandemic deals handed out by DHSC under emergency regulations

www.theguardian.com

 

[Badgers]

 

[MrSki]

If only I had 3 million I could be LordSki & get 3 hundred odd quid for getting pissed in a subsidised bar.

 

[Kaka Tim]

If only I had 3 million I could be LordSki & get 3 hundred odd quid for getting pissed in a subsidised bar.

 

[teqniq]

Connections, a thread:



Unroll here:

Thread by @DamianHastie on Thread Reader App

Thread by @DamianHastie: Covid Contract Family Connections Devizes 1957 - Henry Glass & Christine Smith Daughter is married to co-founder of Unispace Son is a director of Agile Medical Grandaughter married to direc...…

threadreaderapp.com

 

[brogdale]

Connections, a thread:



Unroll here:

Thread by @DamianHastie on Thread Reader App

Thread by @DamianHastie: Covid Contract Family Connections Devizes 1957 - Henry Glass & Christine Smith Daughter is married to co-founder of Unispace Son is a director of Agile Medical Grandaughter married to direc...…

threadreaderapp.com

Good digging.

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[teqniq]

Thread in which it is revealed that middlemen made £84m on PPE procurement deals

 

[teqniq]

What a fucking surprise:




E2a more here:

Met say there is 'insufficent evidence' for 'cash for honours' criminal probe

THE Metropolitan Police have decided not to launch a probe into Tory "cash for honours" claims following a complaint from the SNP.

www.thenational.scot

 

[Badgers]

Filth

As if they could be trusted

 

[teqniq]

The stench continues:

16 MPs claim £1.3m in rent from taxpayer – while letting their own homes

Exclusive: Four ministers have put rent on expenses while collecting on homes they own in London

www.independent.co.uk

 

[two sheds]

What a fucking surprise:




E2a more here:

Met say there is 'insufficent evidence' for 'cash for honours' criminal probe

THE Metropolitan Police have decided not to launch a probe into Tory "cash for honours" claims following a complaint from the SNP.

www.thenational.scot

When there's insufficient evidence of a crime you'd expect them to actually go looking for some

 

[Badgers]

The stench continues:

16 MPs claim £1.3m in rent from taxpayer – while letting their own homes

Exclusive: Four ministers have put rent on expenses while collecting on homes they own in London

www.independent.co.uk

Sir Geoffrey has been under fire following the disclosure that he stands to make more than £1m from outside legal work, including representing the British Virgin Islands in a corruption inquiry.

He is currently claiming £22,000 a year in taxpayer funding to rent a London home while collecting rent on another property he co-owns in the capital. A spokeswoman for the MP said: “Sir Geoffrey has acted at all times within the rules set by the IPSA.”

Do they have advisors telling them how to get rich(er) whilst the #ToryScum hang on to power?

Can picture these bloated cunts sitting together in the taxpayer subsided bar sharing financial hacks and recommending dirty accountants / lawyers who can help out.

 

[Edie]

This stinks. The idea of them getting decent people to donate their hard earned cash to save bloody cheetahs or whatnot, then spending it on mansions, interior decor, and corruption, makes me feel like grabbing my baseball bat.

Charity that employs Carrie Johnson faces further questions over finances

Accounts for Aspinall Foundation show it paid more than £150,000 in ‘interior design services’ to chairman’s wife

www.theguardian.com

 

[not-bono-ever]

An outfit that is run by the goldsmiths and aspinalls might be ropey shocker.

 

[Badgers]

Chris Bryant: ‘I’ll report the next MP who tries to lobby me’ | Chris Bryant | The Guardian

amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org

Bryant, whose cross-party committee polices MPs’ conduct, describes an increase in attempts to influence due process in recent months, culminating in Boris Johnson’s extraordinary botched attempt to overturn the verdict against Owen Paterson.

“It’s: ‘Chris. Can I just bend your ear …?’ Absolutely not!” he says. “It has happened quite a lot over the last year, most notably over the Owen Paterson case but also a couple of others. And in the past, my view has been: ‘Right, I’m just going to tell you you’re not allowed to lobby.’ My new version is: the moment anybody lobbies me I will simply report it to the commissioner and then the commissioner can decide what to do with it.”

 

[MrSki]

Fuck me get the DWP on the case. They can find any extra £2.50 that has entered your account.

Not enough evidence?

What a total load of bollocks. Follow the cash & there is the evidence.

Corruption stinks & Westminster is a fucking quagmire.

 

[two sheds]

Can't survive without a nose in the trough

Owen Paterson asked third firm for a job ‘weeks after leaving government’​

Exclusive: Disgraced former Tory MP phoned businessman he’d met through his ministerial brief to ask for work shortly after returning to backbenches

 

[Badgers]

Filth

As if they could be trusted

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[bluescreen]

Without knowing more about it than the headline here, it's puzzling. He could get cheap loans in the UK - I doubt he could get them cheaper in the Caymans. It's likely there's a lot more to the story than 'cheap loans' however. Anyway, what this is telling me is that the Mail is gunning for JRM.

 

[Chilli.s]

cheaper in the Caymans

Probably one of those loans that is actually income from his hidden businesses and he wants to avoid tax on it. Disguised as a loan it could be an allowable expense.

 

[two sheds]

You'd think they'd have phrased it Cheap 'loans' if so

but there again this is the Mail on Sunday

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Has Natalie Elphicke been mentioned yet?

Tory MP who said Marcus Rashford should stick to the day job... has second job

In a private message to colleagues following England’s defeat in the Euro 2020 final, Ms Elphicke said: 'Would it be ungenerous to say Rashford should have spent more time perfecting his game and less time playing politics'

inews.co.uk

 

[AmateurAgitator]

ACG article on the Natalie Elphicke revelations :

Natalie Elphicke MP – another dodgy dealer - Anarchist Communist Group

Dover and Deal MP Natalie Elphicke - wife of the previous Dover and Deal MP, convicted sex offender and ex Tory Whip, Charlie Elphicke - is paid £36,000 from a second job on top of her MP’s salary of £82,000. Elphicke, who often cynically and opportunistically rails against new arrival refugees...

www.anarchistcommunism.org

 

[two sheds]

Almost £225,000 in wages and freebies taken from gambling industry by 28 MPs

Guardian audit since August 2020 shows 19 Conservative MPs and nine Labour were beneficiaries

www.theguardian.com

Yet more sleazy cunts the money that gambling takes and damage it does to predominantly poor people.