Thread 22. Sunak: Taxes, Truth and Tories

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The previous thread filled up fast, so here's another one with a reasonably topical title!

LOL

https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1643339028865904641?s=20
Quality tweet by the Home Office
Suella really is our greatest injustices!

What thread is it?

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Fat fingers or a cry for help?

Genius.

I know that this isn't Scotsnet but Peter Murrell seems to have been arrested over the SNP finances...

Ooh. Interesting. Is this really why Sturgeon resigned I wonder, if they knew this was on the horizon?

I expect so...

It is breaking news on BBC

www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-65187823.amp

I wondered that too when I read it IClaudine

She was so sure she was doing right by Scottish independence it was a surprise to me she quit.

I thought that too

I am sure they would have been alerted to the investigation so it makes sense of what was a rapid departure. I imagine they will have to question all the senior leadership including Yousaf.

Is there any chance Cruella will lose the selection vote tonight? It would be so sweeeeet if she did.

I can only 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

Another term of her in charge is not worth the imagination.

I'd like a MP who at least replies to emails at the very least. One who has her strategy of ignore ignore ignore isn't fit for purpose.

I have everything crossed. I’m like a human pretzel and I’m not changing shape until the result is announced.

If she did go, she might be replaced by Jenrick, who just committed an actual crime (despite not being an asylum seeker) so that would be nice*.

*also crap

Is there any way to follow it?

Be too good if Braverman withher Dickensian policies would have the rug pulled.

Or plug pulled

Bloody hell - Benton is chairman of the all party betting & gaming group.

I know so many are at but this is just 🤬

💥 Tory MP Scott Benton offered to table questions, leak a confidential policy document and lobby ministers on behalf of gambling investors who proposed paying him thousands.

Incredible undercover reporting by @billykenber for @thetimes

thetimes.co.uk/article/b1bff0…

twitter.com/mattchorley/status/1643649290047242241?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Guaranteed he could leak a copy of a forthcoming white paper on gambling reforms to the company at least 48 hours before it went public, potentially allowing them to profit from market-sensitive information.
Said he could “call in favours” from colleagues who would be happy to support the company’s interests and offered to host a dinner at the House of Commons.
He said he'd sit outside the culture secretary's door if needs be.

Well that is why companies pay to have MPs. Surely that is obvious?
They have to pay the school fees you know, that's why #dklemon needed to beg the Saudis to pay him.

Guaranteed he could leak a copy of a forthcoming white paper on gambling reforms to the company at least 48 hours before it went public, potentially allowing them to profit from market-sensitive information.
Are MPs exempt from Insider trading laws? If not he could be in trouble...

I'm very interested how come the police investigated the SNP/Murrell but not this kind of thing

This video -

twitter.com/mattchorley/status/1643657252870422543?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

MP for hire.

I doubt it will even get much coverage.

Scott Benton has a less than 4,000 majority in Blackpool South.
I'm going to guess that the Conservatives will NOT want a by-election so they'll try and stall it by an investigation etc.

Interesting. My bloke’s just received an email from the local Tory party inviting him to vote on Djanogly continuing to be our MP. It looks as if his uselessness has been noticed more widely than I thought.

Does anyone else have councillors up for election referring to themselves as ‘local conservatives’ rather than Conservative party. ?