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To point out that the PM tried to give his mistress £100k public sector job

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BadAtMaths2 · 19/06/2022 11:53

No not that one. Carrie when they were having an affair and he was foreign secretary. Wanted to appoint her yo £100k job she wasn't qualified for and without declaring an interest. Story was in The Tumes but has disappeared. Super injunction??

To point out that the PM tried to give his mistress £100k public sector job
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Roussette · 19/06/2022 16:55

I'm desperate for boring, principled, clever, intelligent, and competent.
I'm sick to death of 'personalities'... if I wanted a 'personality' I'd go to our local Comedy Club

ilovesooty · 19/06/2022 16:56

liliainterfrutices · 19/06/2022 15:48

I have less than no patience for those who claim to hate what Johnson stands for and who are going to vote for him anyway because Starmer didn't say that women have vaginas.
If you really think that the rights of women are protected under this shower then you haven't been looking at crime statistics, at the reaction of Patel to the Sarah Everard vigil, at the numbers of women driven into poverty, at the numbers of women waiting for NHS treatment etc etc

Absolutely.

AmaryIlis · 19/06/2022 16:56

Snugglepumpkin · 19/06/2022 15:19

It makes me so sad that even with all this, he is still a better alternative than a party who deny the existence of half of the human race as a distinct biological category with rights of their own.

It says a lot about the state of our politicians when the bar is that low & they still can't reach it.

Good thing that there is no major political party in the UK that does that, then, isn't it?

Mind you, the Tories come near it with their ongoing failure to do anything to remedy multiple issues of concern to women in the UK.

vera99 · 19/06/2022 16:56

At least a piece of shit served a purpose before it came into being. On that basis Johnson is worse than.

SwedishEdith · 19/06/2022 17:01

I'm now wondering if the Times and the Mail colluded to pull it at the same time to make look like a superinjunction/something else?🤔Neither paper is fan of Johnson. Don't think we've a tin foil hat emoji yet.

AmaryIlis · 19/06/2022 17:05

Clavinova · 19/06/2022 12:29

BadAtMaths2
Wanted to appoint her yo £100k job she wasn't qualified for

How do you know she wasn't qualified for the job op? She must have been earning £80k + for the job she already had - your link says she was the Conservative Party's director of communications at the time.

Do tell us, @Clavinova , even if she was qualified for the job, do you think this was ethical conduct? If so, why?

And, if you possibly can, could you respond without cut and paste extracts from whichever websites you are currently trawling to try to find more examples of whataboutery?

vera99 · 19/06/2022 17:06

Don't worry the head of the British army tells recruits to prepare for ww3 and this sack of lying shit is in charge.

Notonthestairs · 19/06/2022 17:07

Why do you think The Times and the Mail aren't fans of Johnson? Daily Mail changed editors from Geordie Greig to Ted Verity last November to ensure it was more pro Johnson and I've been reading the Times for 20 years and view it as largely pro Johnson.

Cornettoninja · 19/06/2022 17:13

Hmmm makes you wonder if Johnson has done something to upset the puppet masters at the DM and telegraph. The way the story was dangled was almost like a ‘look, this is the tip of the iceberg of how much power we have over you’. A warning shot of sorts.

WorriedMutha · 19/06/2022 17:18

@Clavinova

How do we know she wasn't qualified for the Job?
Because it literally says so in the article. One witness said 'we knew what was going on between them and that is was an insane risk to him to let him do it',
The second witness says 'most of us thought she wasn't the right person because she was relatively inexperienced'

It is really impossible to believe that you genuinely believe the bollocks you come out with. You just spout it anyway. Judging by the voting on this thread, you are in a tiny minority of deluded individuals.

SwedishEdith · 19/06/2022 17:20

Notonthestairs · 19/06/2022 17:07

Why do you think The Times and the Mail aren't fans of Johnson? Daily Mail changed editors from Geordie Greig to Ted Verity last November to ensure it was more pro Johnson and I've been reading the Times for 20 years and view it as largely pro Johnson.

The Telegraph is Johnson's paper while the Times/Murdoch were Gove fans (don't know if, realistically, they still are?). Mail is clearly still a Tory paper but not sure of really pro-Johnson. I am just idly speculating though.

Notonthestairs · 19/06/2022 17:22

Thanks for answering Edith. Food for thought.

newnamethanks · 19/06/2022 17:36

For Clavinova and friends, 2 Wrongs always equal a Right and become an apparent win for Downing St. It's bizarre and a very odd approach to truth. It's one of those Trump things. Alternative Truth.

DuncinToffee · 19/06/2022 17:49

Simon Walters says he stands "100%" by his story about Boris Johnson and Carrie that was mysteriously pulled by the Times
www.theneweuropean.co.uk/simon-walters-i-stand-by-my-johnson-scoop/

WaitroseWoman · 19/06/2022 18:11

tobee · 19/06/2022 16:42

Fits with the mystery of the Abba party etc not seeming to result in much of an investigation

Yes, there is a whole smorgasbord of fishy whiffs emanating from the non-investigation of the Abba party.

WaitroseWoman · 19/06/2022 18:14

viques · 19/06/2022 16:55

Though it does beg the question of whether or not she would have been able to afford even better quality wallpaper had she been earning £100,000 ( plus expenses) .

She and World King would still have wanted and expected somebody else to pay for it.

WaitroseWoman · 19/06/2022 18:26

LakieLady · 19/06/2022 16:40

And then there was the money he spaffed on water cannon that can't legally be used and, iirc, ended up on a scrapheap somewhere.

Priti Patel has probably requisitioned them to personally use on asylum seekers to wash them out of their dinghies and back out to sea when they try to land. 'That'll teach 'em', she says, with her trademark smirk, and no doubt she'll be 'very surprised' again if the ECHR or indeed anyone with a heart stops her from doing it.

FridayiminlovewithRobertSmith · 19/06/2022 18:34

Good that this is here. Superinjunction? Or in cahoots with the media barons? Doesn’t make difference.

The conservatives under Boris Johnson are corrupt, crooked, incompetent, divisive. There is no strategy it’s just about grabbing power and wealth. They attacking all the institutions that could hold them in check - judiciary, civil service, any part of the parliamentary party that dissents. This doesn’t feel like a partisan leftwing or rightwing issue anymore. This isn’t healthy in a democracy and unless he goes eventually we’ll all be screwed.

Changechangychange · 19/06/2022 18:37

Speaking of spaffing, I’m still amazed that nobody seems to care that Boris announced that prosecuting paedophiles is a waste of public money and we should just let them carry on. People focused on the word “spaffing” and not the content - that he doesn’t think CSA is a crime worth prosecuting.

Especially when half of his MPs seem to be active paedophiles, or claim it’s racist to prosecute paedophiles.

StridTheKiller · 19/06/2022 18:42

@WhatAmIaSlave 😂

MandyMotherOfBrian · 19/06/2022 18:44

Kendodd · 19/06/2022 15:55

I've always wondered if Johnson has a super injunction on his ex-wives or adult kids, you never hear from them.

I’ve always rather thought it would be the other way round tbh. He’s been asked enough times ‘do you know how many children you have?’, and he’s such a petulant twerp I’m sure he’d have got angry and blurted out something - but for the fact he can’t - by now. Much more likely they don’t want him discussing them.

DuncinToffee · 19/06/2022 18:54

The serialisation of Ashcroft's Carrie book in the Mail is still online
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10480695/Carrie-Johnson-uncovered-Book-LORD-ASHCROFT-thats-set-Westminster-alight.html

Superinjunction seems even more unlikely

newnamethanks · 19/06/2022 19:13

Freebies only at Johnson Towers thanks very much. Pay for it themselves? Even their organic grocery deliveries were/are gifts. Dont expect to bump into them at a food bank any time soon lining up behind the GREEDY RMT strikers.

newnamethanks · 19/06/2022 19:27

Couldn't agree more RobertSmith. This is what happens when there's not a third party in the political process, just 2 opposing sides trying to out-politic each other. That massive majority has just given them free rein to do as they please. Tiverton, please don't vote Tory on Thursday. Wakefield ditto.

ChrisReasBathEggs · 19/06/2022 19:50

ilovesooty · 19/06/2022 16:56

Absolutely.

I'm glad people using their critical thinking skills and not bringing this issue on these boards anymore (although I expect most of the 'Labour doesn't know what a woman is' posts were mainly Tory bots anyway). There seems to be less of those post now, so perhaps it has sunk in that it is not a counter argument to a self-serving, lying, bullying, incompetent Tory party who are not in touch with reality. I wonder what the bots are trying to come up with now.