existentialist
Tired and unemotional
What people do with their penises is often an excellent reflection on their probity and judgement elsewhere. But then you knew that. I'll leave it to others to deliver the appropriate rejoinder to you.
Jennifer Arcuri spills the beans about 4 year affair with Johnson
- Thread starter David Clapson
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A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Nobody told me a 13amp plug socket was a bad idea...
maomao
普費斯
As always, it's not about the sex, it's about the lies, the corruption and the money. Reducing it to sex undoubtedly plays in his favour.
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Can you imagine any of the labour front bench fucking? I doubt there is a single person that imagines fucking any of them.
maomao
普費斯
Some people like politicians.
Perhaps their partners?
maomao
普費斯
Who imagines having sex with their partners?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I used to imagine it quite a lot. That was about as near as it got. Maybe the same is true of the entire Labour front bench?
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
nah, their regretting the choices that led them to marrying a Front bench drip.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
They wouldn’t have to lie about the sex if people considered it irrelevant.
The corruption and the money people sadly consider par for the course. They must do otherwise how are they still in power after all the Brexit and Covid scams they’ve pulled.
maomao
普費斯
Do you think Marina Wheeler considered it irrelevant? You're just talking out your arse (again) I'm afraid. Outside of hippy fantasies, long term sexual relationships are going to involve issues of trust and honesty.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
You seem to be the only one here reducing it to a pure sex scandal.
Johnson & co have hidden behind the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability for the Covid corruption. "Yes, we gave out contracts with no oversight or proper procurement process, but we needed that PPE really quickly. We gave contracts to those we thought could get them using our best judgement, and that just happened to be my mate Gary by coincidence." It was similar with Brexit, all the impropriety was in the name of "getting Brexit done" in the face of opposition from sore loser remainers, it was 'playing the game' in the court of public opinion.
It's bullshit, we all know it's bullshit, but it's really difficult to get that smoking gun that proves it was 100% corrupt. There isn't and won't be the public pressure on Johnson's position when all they can and will be found guilty of is cutting corners in procedure, the "getting it done" excuse will hold with more than enough people.
The Arcuri affair is different. If her company received public money through grants it wouldn't have been entitled to, if her company profited from access to government it wouldn't normally have had, if her company benefitted from Johnson's personal appearances and PR work; that is as straightforward a scandal as it gets. If a Prime Minister (or any other high profile figure) has an affair then it erodes trust and calls into question their honesty and integrity; when it's an affair paid for by public funds, it's no longer whether their reputation can withstand the public fallout, it's whether there's a criminal case to answer. It's potentially the smoking gun*
*It won't be, but i'm an optimist.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
They voted for the fat cunt?What the fuck have brexiteers got to do with this
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
I didn't.
bimble
floofy
Was the whole Donald trump era for nothing? One of the things I learnt from that is that many people actually admire and are drawn to the kind of men who shag whatever they can, whether or not their wife’s pregnant or sick or whatever, and more importantly they also admire a man who cheats, steals, lies, doesn’t pay taxes etc, for his personal gain.
The idea that these revelations would cause Johnson to automatically fall in the esteem of the public is quaint, imo.
I think the admiration is for a man who gets away with it, who never has to deal with any consequences. So it’s self perpetuating.
The idea that these revelations would cause Johnson to automatically fall in the esteem of the public is quaint, imo.
I think the admiration is for a man who gets away with it, who never has to deal with any consequences. So it’s self perpetuating.
But the same holds true with the Conservative front bench. Eeugh.
bimble
floofy
Lots of people fancy the chancellor. Not me personally but they do.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
This ^^ mostly
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I didn’t...
David Clapson
Well-Known Member
One spec of good news is that Cameron thought he'd make $60 million from his shares in a crooked lobbying company. So he naturally asked Sunak to give it favourable treatment. The firm went bust and his shares are worthless. David Cameron ‘told friends he would make $60m from Greensill deal’ (You can breach The Times' paywall with the Bypass Paywall by Adam extension iamadamdev - Overview Easy to install with Firefox, a bit fiddly with Chrome.)
David Clapson
Well-Known Member
Hot off the press, a useful reaction to the Mirror story. The Guardian ran this about an hour ago: Johnson does have case to answer over Jennifer Arcuri, says chair of standards panel
"Claer Lloyd-Jones, a lawyer who chaired the 2010 panel into Johnson’s affair with Macintyre, said Johnson does have questions to answer.
Speaking to the Guardian, she said: “It sounds from what she [Arcuri] is alleging that there was an interest to declare but the evidence hasn’t been presented. If he is going to continue to say there was no interest to declare, someone has got to make a decision about it. I would certainly like to know what he has got to say about it.”
Johnson is expected to be asked to appear before the London assembly’s oversight committee when it resumes its inquiry into the allegations later this year."
"Claer Lloyd-Jones, a lawyer who chaired the 2010 panel into Johnson’s affair with Macintyre, said Johnson does have questions to answer.
Speaking to the Guardian, she said: “It sounds from what she [Arcuri] is alleging that there was an interest to declare but the evidence hasn’t been presented. If he is going to continue to say there was no interest to declare, someone has got to make a decision about it. I would certainly like to know what he has got to say about it.”
Johnson is expected to be asked to appear before the London assembly’s oversight committee when it resumes its inquiry into the allegations later this year."
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
These days I doubt it was as much as Johnson bunged her way.
David Clapson
Well-Known Member
I wish we knew more about her timing and motivation. She says the affair ended in 2016. Also in 2016 she met her husband, who joined her firm.
This interview paints her as very hungry for fame: The Unsettled Life of Boris Johnson Pal Jennifer Arcuri (You can get around the paywall with the Tor browser.)
This interview paints her as very hungry for fame: The Unsettled Life of Boris Johnson Pal Jennifer Arcuri (You can get around the paywall with the Tor browser.)
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