Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
I guess you're right.
PM Boris Johnson - monster thread for a monster twat
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Was just looking at this corruption index out of curiosity.
How the hell is the UK worked out to be the 11th least corrupt country in the world (as of Dec 2021)? Idgi.
(Scroll right down the page.)
Ranked: most corrupt countries in the world
Because it’s only corruption if it’s from the Le Córruption region of Africa otherwise it’s sparkling lobbyism
Raheem
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Data lag?Was just looking at this corruption index out of curiosity.
How the hell is the UK worked out to be the 11th least corrupt country in the world (as of Dec 2021)? Idgi.
(Scroll right down the page.)
Ranked: most corrupt countries in the world
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
I think Rob Ray's right here, that's what they're doing.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
No, because his remit is (was) the personal conduct of ministers, not government decisions. So there seems to be something else going on. Maybe it's a pretext for his resignation that's been cooked up, or maybe someone in the government has a financial interest in steel.
Lord Geidt was asked to approve government ministers breaking WTO regulations. As in, give them the green light to contravene an international treaty and say it's all fine in the context of the ministerial code.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Yes, but it doesn't seem to be a normal part of his job. The advice he normally gives is specific to the conduct of individual ministers. The government has legal advisors for assessing government decisions, which I don't believe the ministerial code covers.
Legal advisors determine whether an action is lawful or not. It sounds like they knew it wasn't legal but wanted to proceed anyway with Geidt's support.
Frankly they're breaking so many laws and treaties right now, it's academic.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
No, legal advisors give their opinion on whether an action is lawful, the courts determine an action's legality or otherwise
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Not necessarily - as you say its the conduct that is the important thing, and doing a thing (if it is the tariffs) would have to be done in a way that obviously breached the code of responsibility. If they did that thing to protect a donor's interests (rather than the steel industry per se) then I think that would qualify, especially given the recent history of them and that donor (ie: Greensill).
Supine
Newt Member
teqniq
DisMembered
Looks like oil and gas interests will get a larger foot in the door:
www.theguardian.com
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Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
I see he's 'pulled out' of a 'red wall' tory conference, which sounds like a mistake (particularly as he hasn't managed to come up with an excuse yet). After they get stuffed in Wakefield, quite a few northern tory MPs will be shifting from 'grumbling' to 'rebellious'.
www.theguardian.com
Backlash from Tory MPs as Boris Johnson misses Tory ‘red wall’ conference to make surprise visit to Kyiv – as it happened
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elbows
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Maybe its Ukraine again. Or Covid.I see he's 'pulled out' of a 'red wall' tory conference, which sounds like a mistake (particularly as he hasn't managed to come up with an excuse yet). After they get stuffed in Wakefield, quite a few northern tory MPs will be shifting from 'grumbling' to 'rebellious'.
Backlash from Tory MPs as Boris Johnson misses Tory ‘red wall’ conference to make surprise visit to Kyiv – as it happened
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not a trot
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I see he's 'pulled out' of a 'red wall' tory conference, which sounds like a mistake (particularly as he hasn't managed to come up with an excuse yet). After they get stuffed in Wakefield, quite a few northern tory MPs will be shifting from 'grumbling' to 'rebellious'.
Backlash from Tory MPs as Boris Johnson misses Tory ‘red wall’ conference to make surprise visit to Kyiv – as it happened
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Nice weather for hiding in a fridge.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
swaddle the shit in plastic bags and place him in a freezer
andysays
Love and solidarity
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
The leaders of France, Germany & Italy all visited, together, the other day, clearly billy no mates had to do another visit himself.
Boris Johnson makes second surprise visit to Kyiv after pulling out of major red wall summit at the last minute
Boris Johnson has made a second surprise visit to Kyiv for a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after pulling out of a major red wall conference in Doncaster at the last minute.
news.sky.com
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Bingoman
Well-Known Member
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
Running away from red wall Tories..I guess this makes him a human chicken Kiev
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Is Doncaster THAT bad? Brenda just made it a city after all.
I only know for Arkright and Clarkson.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
And the frenchgate
teqniq
DisMembered
Interesting bit of self censorship here:
both the articles in the Fail and Times have been removed but someone managed to archive the Fail piece:
archive.ph
both the articles in the Fail and Times have been removed but someone managed to archive the Fail piece:
Boris Johnson accused of trying to appoint wife Carrie to £100k taxpa…
archived 18 Jun 2022 14:07:15 UTC
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Interesting bit of self censorship here:
both the articles in the Fail and Times have been removed but someone managed to archive the Fail piece:
Boris Johnson accused of trying to appoint wife Carrie to £100k taxpa…
archived 18 Jun 2022 14:07:15 UTC
Does that smell a bit of "superinjunction", do we think?
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Surely that would be a bit too outrageous (?)
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