UK Politics Thread 🇬🇧

[ADevilYouKhow]

U.K. Far Right, Lifted by Trump, Now Turns to Russia

How odd!

 

[jj23]

U.K. Far Right, Lifted by Trump, Now Turns to Russia

How odd!

No more money in the US, and he has a few lawsuits coming in the UK.

I think he was trying to get asylum from Trump, so the same play is expected for Russia.

 

[jj23]

Fukkery

In perhaps the most potentially devastating allegation in his blogpost, Cummings claimed that in a meeting after the leak, the cabinet secretary, Simon Case, told him and Johnson that “all the evidence” pointed to Henry Newman, then an adviser at the Cabinet Office, who has since moved to No 10. Newman is known to be close to Carrie Symonds, Johnson’s fiancee, seen as a key figure in Cummings’ removal from his job.

Cummings wrote: “The PM was very upset about this. He said to me afterwards: ‘If Newman is confirmed as the leaker, then I will have to fire him, and this will cause me very serious problems with Carrie as they’re best friends … [pause] Perhaps we could get the cabinet secretary to stop the leak inquiry?’

“I told him that this was ‘mad’ and totally unethical, that he had ordered the inquiry himself and authorised the cabinet secretary to use more invasive methods than are usually applied to leak inquiries because of the seriousness of the leak. I told him that he could not possibly cancel an inquiry about a leak that affected millions of people just because it might implicate his girlfriend’s friends.”

 

[jj23]

Fukkery

Finally, Cummings said he had warned Johnson about renovations to his Downing Street flat costing a reported £58,000, for which the prime minister had allegedly sought outside funding from Conservative supporters.

He wrote: “I told him I thought his plans to have donors secretly pay for the renovation were unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended… I refused to help him organise these payments.”

Cummings said Johnson had stopped speaking to him about the issue in 2020 after he said this, adding: “I would be happy to tell the cabinet secretary or Electoral Commission what I know concerning this matter.”

 

[jj23]

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

‘Chlorinated’ U.S. Chickens Convince British Consumers the Sky Is Falling

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Thunberg changes bio to 'bunny hugger' after Boris Johnson uses term

Johnson is an embarrassment

 

[SCORCH]

 

[jj23]

Pressure mounts on Johnson over alleged ‘let the bodies pile high’ remarks

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

‘It’s a betrayal’: Cornish fishing vote turns against Tories over Brexit deal

Welp

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Pressure mounts on Johnson over alleged ‘let the bodies pile high’ remarks

How’s that going to pan out domestically?

 

[jj23]

How’s that going to pan out domestically?

Best case scenario is someone has it recorded and the combined outrage forces the tories to ask for his resignation.

Likely outcome - nothing will happen.

 

[merklman]

Sadly Boris is right, people dont care about his dodgy financing - poll numbers aren't moving on this

 

[SCORCH]

I love how the Good Law Project keeps their foot on the neck of the Torie government.

 

[King Static X]

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!