Boris building £150,000 tree house for son

[Bignanny30]

I’ve just read that The Prime Minister is planning to build a tree house at Checkers for his son that will cost in excess of £150,000. I’m disgusted. I know there are rich people all over The country who may well have built similar projects for their children and to be honest that’s there business, if they’ve earned the money. But this is the man in charge of the government who are making policies that are causing debt and distress to many of their citizens. Many who are struggling to feed their families and clothe their kids never mind building tree houses for them. I think he should have a little more empathy!

Don't be ridiculousl it's all our business, our prime minister is selling government access, contracts and fuck knows what else, for wallpaper, treehouses etc.
He's not getting this for his talent or any sort of skill outside of his pm duties.
He's offered this crap as bribes because he's pm.
That should concern everyone.

God knows why people keep saying 'it's his money'. No it isn't. He is being bribed.

Do posters think someone would give them £250,000 just like that for no reason?
No.
They would want something from you.
It's no different

Didn’t he ask for frequent Conservative party donor Lord Brownlow to pay for it? The same Lord Brownlow that has won over £100 million worth of government contracts?

This is from last year,

“A firm founded and owned by Lord David Brownlow, the man who reportedly helped to fund Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat renovation, has been allowed access to public sector contracts worth up to £120 million in recent years.
The Electoral Commission, which regulates political donations and spending, has subsequently launched an investigation after. It said today: “We are now satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence or offences may have occurred. We will therefore continue this work as a formal investigation to establish whether this is the case.””

bylinetimes.com/2021/04/28/firm-owned-lord-brownlow-boris-johnsons-downing-street-donor-allowed-to-bid-for-130-million-public-contracts/

Update from the Electoral Commission* later in 2021 on that same donation:

“The investigation found that the party failed to fully report a donation of £67,801.72 from Huntswood Associates Limited in October 2020. The donation included £52,801.72 connected to the costs of refurbishment to 11 Downing Street. The full value of the donation was not reported as required in the party’s Q4 2020 donation report.

The Commission also concluded that the reference in the party’s financial records to the payment of £52,801.72 made by the party for the refurbishment was not accurate.

The investigation found that decisions relating to the handling and recording of this donation reflected serious failings in the party’s compliance systems.”

www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre/conservative-party-fined-inaccurate-donation-report

(Yes, the same Electoral Commission that the government has just prevented from being an independent body and is now under government control. Wonder why?)

What a fucking prick!
i seriously cannot understand for the life of me why this shot show is still running our country! A fucking tree house should cost a lot less than £150,000! You can buy some houses for that!

Engage a bit of critical thinking for a second and ask yourself whether a Tory donor would personally gift a PM with £150,000 for a treehouse without expecting some influence in return?

You genuinely think they offer up those sort of sums to him personally because they think he's a jolly nice bloke or a mate, so it has no impact on the public?

It's essentially cash for access and influence. Access and influence in OUR government. With OUR ministers, who are paid from OUR taxes to represent US, the public.

Same old shit, tale as old as time. Money = influence.

They don't care about us.

How is this any different to Unions funding Labour? The rail ones going on strike help fund Labour. In return Labour MP's support the strike with many of them including Angela Raynor having photos taken of them on picket line. Do you think this would stop if Labour in government? It did not stop last time Labour in power.

If the Unions were funding a Labour leader to buy something for the personal use of him or his family then it might be similar
Not sure The RMT subscriptions will be used to build Starmer a new patio

I don't understand this type of response.

When a Labour politician does something shitty, I say they've done a shitty thing and feel annoyed they've represented their party poorly and damaged its reputation.

Yet when a Tory does something shitty, I only ever hear Tory supporters saying "well labour did / does xyz" as if that changes what the Tory has done. It's such a strange way of discussing things, it makes it impossible to discuss them sensibly.

This isn't a specific Tory vs Labour incident.

This is a specific incident where Boris wanted to take £150k from a donor to buy a treehouse for his son, knowing that donor would expect access and influence in return.

You said "it's his money, he can do what he likes with it" and while in principle it's his money, it comes with strings attached and those strings directly affect his work as PM because a donor giving that sum is doing so to gain the favour, influence and access the PM can offer.

Do you not understand that?

How is this any different to Unions funding Labour?

It's entirely different.

Because they're openly and transparently funding a political party.

Not giving Kier some cash to build an outdoor swimming pool to keep him sweet.

You surely must understand the difference between the two?

More fool him, frankly. He'll be evicted before long!

He isn't paying for it, he is getting a donor to pay for it.

I wonder what the donor has been promised in return...

@Bignanny30

This is the treehouse company Boris wanted to use. It is bloody amazing. It is actually used by businesses too for example for the. RHS Chelsea Flower Show. I think i saw someone use it for a yoga retreat too. I think it would be quite nice as an Airbnb on a NT property. But for little Wilfie paid for by his father's donors... not so much.

www.blueforest.com/up-in-the-trees/

He wants to stay on until the 2030s. And sadly as long as there are a lot of voters like @caringcarer , that may be the case.

Its a £150k treehouse today. If he is in power for ten years, what if he starts stealing billions from the state? For example, he gives a billion pound contract to one of his mates to run the nhs, that mate gives him £100 million to keep him sweet. Please don't say it wouldn't happen here; £100 million is bigger than £150k but these are just numbers. Greed knows no bounds. You have to stop it before it gets bigger. Its why we teach little kids not to lie and cheat; because if they do it as a child, they would be 100 times worse as adults.

Its their only shot at living the billionaire lifestyle. Plus they are confident that Boris will stay PM until the 2030s. Think about it, there is no obvious successor for him in the Tory party. And when the general elections come about, the right wing media will unite behind boris and convince the public that keir is the anti-christ, that he will feed your children to the unions, that he will raise your taxes (even though the tories have raised taxes for the average person to the highest level in 70 years). So they are convinced they have victory in the bag. So they can do as they please.

The only hope is that left wing voters will vote tactically as they did in by elections and some of the voters in red wall seats will realize that they have not become richer since voting Boris.

BJ clearly missed the lessons about why it's important not to lie or cheat. And he has been allowed to get away with doing just that for decades.

I'm an optimist though. While I accept that there are still a large number of voters who are stupid enough to continue backing him, I do think enough people will decide that they want him out. I hope so, anyway.

Then again, I hoped that the electorate would never be stupid enough to put him in power in the first place, and I was clearly wrong about that...

Certain sections of his own party are realizing he is becoming a liabilty and better he gooes sooner than has to leave later. Dont forget the free holidays at the Goldsmith villa thats owned by........someone in Monaco/BVI/isle of Man and his friend Lebedev . Oh and a nice job for Carrie if possible

RMT don't not fund Labour.

They also don't and won't fund/donate to Keir Starmer personally as they don't agree with views/policies.

Yes other unions linked to the railways pay money towards Labour e.g. Unite, TSSA and Aslef but their members weren't the ones who went on strike for 3 days last week. This is why there were some trains running.

He is a shameless scrounger who lives a champagne lifestyle on other peoples money, I would be ashamed to have anything to do with him. Having a personal connection with this odious man tells us all we need to know about their own ethics and moral compass.