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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 13, 2023 1:08:06 GMT
Boris Johnson has received a donation of £1m from a Thai-based British businessman who had previously given millions of pounds to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, the newly released register of MPs’ interests has shown. Christopher Harborne, a tech industry investor who had previously donated to the Conservatives but gave the Brexit party £6m before the 2019 general election, handed the £1m donation to Johnson’s personal office, set up after he left No 10. The size of the donation, one of the biggest recorded to an individual UK politician rather than a party, and from a strong Brexit supporter, will increase speculation that Johnson could be planning some sort of comeback. www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/12/boris-johnson-given-1m-donation-by-former-brexit-party-backerThe thought of a Boris comeback will please Morgan greatly.  |
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Post by patman post on Jan 13, 2023 12:40:31 GMT
And people complain about trade union donations…
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Post by Bentley on Jan 13, 2023 15:37:21 GMT
So if a party or individual in that party is beholden to donors then Labour and Labour politicians are beholden to the unions at least as much as the Tories are to their donors, right?
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Post by jonksy on Jan 13, 2023 17:09:41 GMT
So if a party or individual in that party is beholden to donors then Labour and Labour politicians are beholden to the unions at least as much as the Tories are to their donors, right? What was it again that stammer and his bunch of inbreds got in donations from those wankers "just stop oil"? The last I heard it was £390K |
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Post by Bentley on Jan 13, 2023 17:15:21 GMT
So if a party or individual in that party is beholden to donors then Labour and Labour politicians are beholden to the unions at least as much as the Tories are to their donors, right? What was it again that stammer and his bunch of inbreds got in donations from those wankers "just stop oil"? The last I heard it was £390K I’m not sure but if donors are influential on a political party’s policies then they must be influential in Labours political thinking ( if it’s true ). |
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Post by piglet on Jan 15, 2023 12:35:41 GMT
There is a discussion about the quality of MPS, or lack of, which is well founded. Boris Johnson is one of those lacking in quality. For someone to give him a million quid in the hope he will become prime minister again shows that that person isnt paying attention.
All of parliament is not fit for purpose. The built up emnity between the parties needs to be got rid of, its in the way. A benevolent dictator would be good, like Portillo or Frank Field, good men at heart. The poison in the system is to follow the party line, and not on the merits of whatever the issue is.
Johnson is a con man, selling medicine in the old west from a wagon. Medicine that cures all, but cures nowt.
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Post by Handyman on Jan 15, 2023 13:44:35 GMT
Boris Johnson has received a donation of £1m from a Thai-based British businessman who had previously given millions of pounds to Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, the newly released register of MPs’ interests has shown. Christopher Harborne, a tech industry investor who had previously donated to the Conservatives but gave the Brexit party £6m before the 2019 general election, handed the £1m donation to Johnson’s personal office, set up after he left No 10. The size of the donation, one of the biggest recorded to an individual UK politician rather than a party, and from a strong Brexit supporter, will increase speculation that Johnson could be planning some sort of comeback. www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/12/boris-johnson-given-1m-donation-by-former-brexit-party-backerThe thought of a Boris comeback will please Morgan greatly. He may well lose his seat at the GE which is not that far away , on the other hand he may well keep his seat who knows, he may step down as they say a week is a long time in Politics |
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Post by Red Rackham on Jan 15, 2023 14:03:12 GMT
He may well lose his seat at the GE which is not that far away , on the other hand he may well keep his seat who knows, he may step down as they say a week is a long time in Politics He could make a lot more money out of politics that's for sure. Personally I think he will be around, in politics, for a long time yet. He loves it, and he still has plenty of support. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Jan 15, 2023 21:31:41 GMT
And people complain about trade union donations… I complain about the money stolen from me by the Bakers Union when I was forced to hand over a weekly payment including a handout to a political party i absolutely abhorred. And as I pointed out, in the last week of my employment, before my return to uni, the payroll dept made an honest mistake with my overtime, fessed up to their error immediately, but said they regretted the only thing they could do at that stage was pay me the overtime owed next week. I agreed to that for a number of reasons not least the fact the sim owed was barely twenty pints of beer’s worth of cash When I went to collect it I found half was missing as the Bakers union closed shop agreement allowed them to steal a full weeks subscription and political levy from every payslip no matter the reason for issue including settlement of errors in termination. I made various complaints but the Labour Leader and Prime Minister Jim Callaghan was my fucking MP at the time and that piece of shut wasn’t going to rectify this theft was he. If assholes thing Unions actually do anything for them, and want to fund them, fair enough. I dont |
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Post by Handyman on Jan 16, 2023 9:14:22 GMT
He may well lose his seat at the GE which is not that far away , on the other hand he may well keep his seat who knows, he may step down as they say a week is a long time in Politics He could make a lot more money out of politics that's for sure. Personally I think he will be around, in politics, for a long time yet. He loves it, and he still has plenty of support. I think so as well |
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Post by Handyman on Jan 16, 2023 9:17:30 GMT
He could make a lot more money out of politics that's for sure. Personally I think he will be around, in politics, for a long time yet. He loves it, and he still has plenty of support. I think so as well Thankfully the days of the closed shop when you had no choice but to be in a Union are over long gone, today if you chose to join a Union you can opt out of part of your subscriptions going directly to the Labour Party |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jan 16, 2023 13:52:42 GMT
He may well lose his seat at the GE which is not that far away , on the other hand he may well keep his seat who knows, he may step down as they say a week is a long time in Politics He could make a lot more money out of politics that's for sure. Personally I think he will be around, in politics, for a long time yet. He loves it, and he still has plenty of support. The fact he still has a lot of support is the best argument against democracy. |
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Post by Handyman on Jan 17, 2023 10:24:18 GMT
Boris Johnson has signed a deal with HarperCollins to write a tell-all memoir about his time in office, BBC reported. Johnson's story in his own words will be a "prime ministerial memoir like no other,
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Post by sword on Jan 17, 2023 15:32:25 GMT
And people complain about trade union donations… I complain about the money stolen from me by the Bakers Union when I was forced to hand over a weekly payment including a handout to a political party i absolutely abhorred. And as I pointed out, in the last week of my employment, before my return to uni, the payroll dept made an honest mistake with my overtime, fessed up to their error immediately, but said they regretted the only thing they could do at that stage was pay me the overtime owed next week. I agreed to that for a number of reasons not least the fact the sim owed was barely twenty pints of beer’s worth of cash When I went to collect it I found half was missing as the Bakers union closed shop agreement allowed them to steal a full weeks subscription and political levy from every payslip no matter the reason for issue including settlement of errors in termination. I made various complaints but the Labour Leader and Prime Minister Jim Callaghan was my fucking MP at the time and that piece of shut wasn’t going to rectify this theft was he. If assholes thing Unions actually do anything for them, and want to fund them, fair enough. I dont You mean like getting better working conditions and pay rises for you? what are they thinking? |
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Post by sword on Jan 17, 2023 15:33:49 GMT
He could make a lot more money out of politics that's for sure. Personally I think he will be around, in politics, for a long time yet. He loves it, and he still has plenty of support. The fact he still has a lot of support is the best argument against democracy. Very true,thats what i find frightening,of course that Oligarch doesn't want anything for his million quid Lol! |
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