Al to his friends and family; Boris to his victims.
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Al to his friends and family; Boris to his victims.
Gaia
Urban's Village Idiot
Twatface has a major strop on and now wants Supreme Court judges to be vetted by MPs a la the US. In an interview with the Sunday Torygraph, Twatface said
Supreme Court judges could be vetted by MPs in wake of prorogation ruling
Supreme Court judges could be vetted by MPs in wake of prorogation ruling
Call him 'Disgraced prime minister Johnson'
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I'd like to think it'd be out of date quickly, in favour of "disgraced ex-Prime Minister Johnson".Call him 'Disgraced prime minister Johnson'
Mind you, at the rate his own family are disowning him, perhaps even "Johnson" isn't safe for long
Just not "Boris'.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Jolly good. Nice that the chickens have somewhere to roost.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
He might be if his hedge fund backers lose millions if there is no exit by 31st October.
Dead in a ditch was his own prediction.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Well if that's what he wants I'm sure it can be arranged...
Interesting development:
No 10 probes Remain MPs' 'foreign collusion' amid plot to allow John Bercow to send 'surrender letter' to Brussels asking for a delay to Brexit
Downing Street has launched a major investigation into alleged links between foreign governments and the MPs behind the 'Surrender Act' which could force Boris Johnson to delay Brexit.
Sources said No 10 took the unprecedented action after officials received intelligence that the MPs, including former Cabinet Minister Oliver Letwin, had received help drafting the Bill from members of the French Government and the European Union.
No 10 probes MPs' 'foreign collusion' amid plot John Bercow to send 'surrender letter' to Brussels | Daily Mail Online
No 10 probes Remain MPs' 'foreign collusion' amid plot to allow John Bercow to send 'surrender letter' to Brussels asking for a delay to Brexit
Downing Street has launched a major investigation into alleged links between foreign governments and the MPs behind the 'Surrender Act' which could force Boris Johnson to delay Brexit.
Sources said No 10 took the unprecedented action after officials received intelligence that the MPs, including former Cabinet Minister Oliver Letwin, had received help drafting the Bill from members of the French Government and the European Union.
No 10 probes MPs' 'foreign collusion' amid plot John Bercow to send 'surrender letter' to Brussels | Daily Mail Online
ruffneck23
front left
From the Daily Mail , that well known purveyor of truth?
not-bono-ever
meh
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Regarding the scandals popping up in the media, I wonder how much of this is just stuff the press have sat in their Johnson scandal archive, must be quite a bit in there. Might be a rush on to get their money’s worth out of these stories before he’s knocked off his perch and no longer worth the attention.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Hurrah for the Daily Mail
My first thought when I read ‘foreign collusion’ ‘was, not those bloody Russians again’.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Lurdan
old wave
Sunday Times going in fairly hard again.
This week's Insight story focuses on a number of mostly unnamed sources confirming that Arcuri told people the relationship with Boris involved sex. This isn't being reported merely for prurient purposes (although the Times in it's more upmarket way 'paints a picture'), but to emphasise the extent of the conflict of interest involved. In a leader the Times sets out the questions it believes Boris needs to answer.
In addition to the Insight story, a front page teaser article and the papers leader, there is also the piece Mr Ski mentioned above which, aside from describing the authors experience of Boris' hands on approach to female employees, provides an unflattering sketch of the culture in the Spectator office when he was editor. There is also a very hostile piece about him in Camilla Longs column.
I have a distinct recollection of questions being raised about Boris' apparent closeness to the Murdoch press when he was Mayor of London. Doesn't seem to be a great deal of personal warmth at the moment. So sad.
This week's Insight story focuses on a number of mostly unnamed sources confirming that Arcuri told people the relationship with Boris involved sex. This isn't being reported merely for prurient purposes (although the Times in it's more upmarket way 'paints a picture'), but to emphasise the extent of the conflict of interest involved. In a leader the Times sets out the questions it believes Boris needs to answer.
INSIGHT INVESTIGATION
The blonde leading the blond: ‘She was sleeping with Boris’
Four friends of Jennifer Arcuri say she and the PM were lovers before she became a regular on trade missions
Insight | George Arbuthnott, Jonathan Calvert, Gabriel Pogrund
September 29 2019, 12:01am, The Sunday Times
Before this encounter, Arcuri’s CV was patchy. She was on the books of a modelling website, had worked at a Californian sushi restaurant and was an extra in films such as the Bollywood flop Naughty at 40, which had first brought her to London.
It was Johnson who put Arcuri’s fledgling business on the map by accepting her invitation to become the big name to speak at her first Innotech summit that year. He was the vital political ingredient in a summit that sought to bring together policymakers with technology start-ups in London’s East End.
Within months, her friend Milo Yiannopoulos, who spoke at the first Innotech summit and would later become a controversial right-wing commentator, was touting her for a job way out of her league as chief executive of a government quango, Tech City. In an email to a journalist, he introduced Arcuri as a “friend of Boris Johnson”. The job went to a Facebook executive, Joanna Shields.
The London mayor would go on to attend three more of Arcuri’s events over the next couple of years, to the bemusement of others in London’s technology scene. One well-connected source said he had been “baffled” by Johnson’s repeated attendance at Arcuri’s conferences because the mayor had frequently declined invitations from the main tech conferences in the capital.
But it seems the relationship had begun before those events. Sources have said that Johnson was a regular visitor to Arcuri’s top-floor flat above a drug den in Shoreditch, east London.
It is not suggested that any of the other residents or the owner were involved with activities of the drug gang.
Her companies also benefited from public money. The Innotech Network, which she owned, was awarded £10,000 in sponsorship in October 2013 by the mayor’s promotional arm, London & Partners (L&P), for an event Arcuri was holding at the Excel centre in London, where Johnson would be speaking.
The following summer, L&P also paid Arcuri £1,500 to sponsor an event her company held at the House of Commons. L&P said it had no record of whether Johnson played any role in the decision to sponsor Arcuri’s summit. Johnson, however, was responsible for L&P and is likely to have known about the sponsorship because he attended the first event.
She was then given £15,000 in 2014 under the international trade department’s Sirius programme, which aimed to encourage foreign entrepreneurs to live and build their businesses in the UK.
The financial struggles of her companies did not stop her moving in lofty circles, however. She was invited to Buckingham Palace for a reception hosted by the Duke of York. The event, organised by the Cabinet Office, was part of a two-day summit bringing together the UK and four other digitally advanced countries. She also had herself photographed outside the front door of No 10 twice, in August and September 2013.
Although Johnson was not present at these events, he did cross paths with Arcuri. One of her friends described how Arcuri and Johnson would often attend small tech events in east London such as the regular “meet-up” at the Shoreditch Grind cafe, which is half a mile from her flat, and a pizza and beer evening in the area. She also attended his speeches at Tory conferences and a fundraising ball.
As this newspaper revealed last week, Arcuri went on three of Johnson’s trade missions — to Singapore and Malaysia, New York and Tel Aviv — between November 2014 and late 2015, even though her company was not eligible for any of them.
She had initially been turned down for two of those trade missions but was allowed to attend after intervention by Johnson and his close team in the mayor’s office. One internal email provided to this newspaper shows she was allowed to join the New York trade mission event after Johnson was said to have been happy with her request to take part.
Johnson’s staff at City Hall were concerned by the hold that Arcuri seemed to have over him. “She was incredibly pushy, and it’s quite well documented that he can be pushed around a bit,” said one. Yet, despite the perks, Arcuri’s businesses have jointly lost £1m, according to their latest accounts last year.
Arcuri did not respond to a request for comment. Last week her statement said: “Any grants received by my companies and any trade mission I joined were purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman . . . I am incredibly disappointed that The Sunday Times cannot write about a successful female entrepreneur without smearing her with innuendo based on leaks from City Hall.”
Last night, a Downing Street spokeswoman, on behalf of the prime minister, declined to comment.
The blonde leading the blond: ‘She was sleeping with Boris’
Four friends of Jennifer Arcuri say she and the PM were lovers before she became a regular on trade missions
Insight | George Arbuthnott, Jonathan Calvert, Gabriel Pogrund
September 29 2019, 12:01am, The Sunday Times
Before this encounter, Arcuri’s CV was patchy. She was on the books of a modelling website, had worked at a Californian sushi restaurant and was an extra in films such as the Bollywood flop Naughty at 40, which had first brought her to London.
It was Johnson who put Arcuri’s fledgling business on the map by accepting her invitation to become the big name to speak at her first Innotech summit that year. He was the vital political ingredient in a summit that sought to bring together policymakers with technology start-ups in London’s East End.
Within months, her friend Milo Yiannopoulos, who spoke at the first Innotech summit and would later become a controversial right-wing commentator, was touting her for a job way out of her league as chief executive of a government quango, Tech City. In an email to a journalist, he introduced Arcuri as a “friend of Boris Johnson”. The job went to a Facebook executive, Joanna Shields.
The London mayor would go on to attend three more of Arcuri’s events over the next couple of years, to the bemusement of others in London’s technology scene. One well-connected source said he had been “baffled” by Johnson’s repeated attendance at Arcuri’s conferences because the mayor had frequently declined invitations from the main tech conferences in the capital.
But it seems the relationship had begun before those events. Sources have said that Johnson was a regular visitor to Arcuri’s top-floor flat above a drug den in Shoreditch, east London.
It is not suggested that any of the other residents or the owner were involved with activities of the drug gang.
Her companies also benefited from public money. The Innotech Network, which she owned, was awarded £10,000 in sponsorship in October 2013 by the mayor’s promotional arm, London & Partners (L&P), for an event Arcuri was holding at the Excel centre in London, where Johnson would be speaking.
The following summer, L&P also paid Arcuri £1,500 to sponsor an event her company held at the House of Commons. L&P said it had no record of whether Johnson played any role in the decision to sponsor Arcuri’s summit. Johnson, however, was responsible for L&P and is likely to have known about the sponsorship because he attended the first event.
She was then given £15,000 in 2014 under the international trade department’s Sirius programme, which aimed to encourage foreign entrepreneurs to live and build their businesses in the UK.
The financial struggles of her companies did not stop her moving in lofty circles, however. She was invited to Buckingham Palace for a reception hosted by the Duke of York. The event, organised by the Cabinet Office, was part of a two-day summit bringing together the UK and four other digitally advanced countries. She also had herself photographed outside the front door of No 10 twice, in August and September 2013.
Although Johnson was not present at these events, he did cross paths with Arcuri. One of her friends described how Arcuri and Johnson would often attend small tech events in east London such as the regular “meet-up” at the Shoreditch Grind cafe, which is half a mile from her flat, and a pizza and beer evening in the area. She also attended his speeches at Tory conferences and a fundraising ball.
As this newspaper revealed last week, Arcuri went on three of Johnson’s trade missions — to Singapore and Malaysia, New York and Tel Aviv — between November 2014 and late 2015, even though her company was not eligible for any of them.
She had initially been turned down for two of those trade missions but was allowed to attend after intervention by Johnson and his close team in the mayor’s office. One internal email provided to this newspaper shows she was allowed to join the New York trade mission event after Johnson was said to have been happy with her request to take part.
Johnson’s staff at City Hall were concerned by the hold that Arcuri seemed to have over him. “She was incredibly pushy, and it’s quite well documented that he can be pushed around a bit,” said one. Yet, despite the perks, Arcuri’s businesses have jointly lost £1m, according to their latest accounts last year.
Arcuri did not respond to a request for comment. Last week her statement said: “Any grants received by my companies and any trade mission I joined were purely in respect of my role as a legitimate businesswoman . . . I am incredibly disappointed that The Sunday Times cannot write about a successful female entrepreneur without smearing her with innuendo based on leaks from City Hall.”
Last night, a Downing Street spokeswoman, on behalf of the prime minister, declined to comment.
In addition to the Insight story, a front page teaser article and the papers leader, there is also the piece Mr Ski mentioned above which, aside from describing the authors experience of Boris' hands on approach to female employees, provides an unflattering sketch of the culture in the Spectator office when he was editor. There is also a very hostile piece about him in Camilla Longs column.
I have a distinct recollection of questions being raised about Boris' apparent closeness to the Murdoch press when he was Mayor of London. Doesn't seem to be a great deal of personal warmth at the moment. So sad.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
That's an "interesting development" if you're a cunt. If you're anything other than that, it's a highly dubious bit of muckspreading, all the more because of the source.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
calling this collusion sits uneasily with brexiters asking other EU govts to block any extension
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Johnson is the Telegraph’s man, Gove is Murdoch. Could still be a bit of taking sides related to that.
It might also be likely that all the press know these stories, so it’s whichever paper that breaks the story first that gets the kudos and circulation boost, if it’s coming out anyway you might as well milk it despite underlying political allegiances, people will hear it anyway.
I only caught a bit of his Marr interview this morning. In the bit I did catch, he appeared to be saying that as Jeremy Corbyn went to a private school he'd be hypocritical to abolish them. He neglected to mention that Corbyn divorced the mother of his children as she wanted them to go a grammar school.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I'm not sure how many people in the UK don't think he's a cunt to be honest.
We'll find out at the next election but I suspect the numbers won't make him look good.
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