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

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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??

I'm a swing voter and I don't hate parties or people just Coz they are whatever politics.
I must admit I can't get worked up about party gate, but this is deeply questionable.
Why was the article withdrawn? I've seen that the author stands by it?

You can’t see the problem with the Prime Minister taking bribes, unless those bribes are from a foreign power? Um, ok.

Boris and Carrie seem to be denying that the jobs for mistresses thing ever happened. But if that is the case, why didn't they make a fuss when the book where the story originated first came out?

My understanding is that civil servants minute everything that's done and said in the Foreign Office, so it seems highly likely that there is a record of Boris pushing for Carrie to get the job unless it's been quietly shredded. Given Boris's track record for lying I wouldn't be at all surprised if those records emerged.

How would they know unless there was an application procedure?

@DrunkAndAlone2 because the ministerial code prohibits it?
Remember when ethical conduct used to be a pillar of Government? I know it seems a distant memory, but before the current incumbent it was expected that ministers weren't shagging their staff members and having extramarital affairs with them.

How does shagging someone make you the right candidate?

Isn't this the reason why Matt Hancock resigned? He gave a job to his mistress, as well as breaking lock down rules of course.

Isn't this the reason why Matt Hancock resigned?
Maybe it's compulsory for cabinet ministers to employ a mistress at their place of work?

Can anyone remember when David Blunkett resigned because he had helped his girlfriend's nanny fast track her passport application?

Yes

How low we have sunk since

Wasn't Johnson also supposed to have taken out a SI over his supposed affair with a Russian violinist a couple of years ago?.... And this is what he & Carrie were rowing over & disturbed the neighbours?
twitter.com/imincorrigible/status/1399279679622766593?lang=en-GB
twitter.com/Kepilo/status/1150765680716857344

No SI or anything, just jogging buddies doing each other a favour. You know, our fearless journalists at the paper of record, holding the powerful to account, without fear or favour. Nothing to see here.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/19/carrie-johnson-and-the-curious-case-of-the-vanishing-times-story?CMP=share_btn_tw

bylinetimes.com/2022/06/20/anatomy-of-a-cover-up-how-no-10-killed-the-times-story-about-boris-and-carrie-johnson/

“The reality is actually far worse than the conspiracy theory. Rather than being scared-off by lawyers, or shadowy court orders, The Times seems to have merely folded to political pressure from Downing Street”

I know I’ve often wondered why this isn’t everywhere too. It should be.

Is it that there are just so many that it’s impossible to keep count?

Is it that there are just so many that it’s impossible to keep count?

Bingo. And each time normalises it just a little bit more.

I’ve posted this list before and it doesn’t even cover pre-PM history:

”Prof Tanya Bueltmann

But again it all relates back to the basic principle of a self-serving culture he established that underpins everything Johnson does.
In order to pursue this agenda, Johnson has:

— chosen to push through a profoundly damaging and extreme Brexit
— prorogued Parliament
— threatened to break international law
— attacked democracy itself, e.g. by undermining checking processes
— become increasingly authoritarian
— been perfectly happy to enable fascistic policies; I want to be clear that this is not a shrill comment: his government is pursuing a policy that essentially traffics fellow human beings to a country abroad for cash and without their consent
— shown complete disrespect for the people of the UK: ‘let the bodies pile high’
— pursued policies that are leading to people considering suicide
— enabled policies that let people starve and freeze
— accepted and enabled corruption in unprecedented ways during the pandemic
— lied in the House of Commons to save his own skin and because he thinks he is better than us
— lied to the Queen
— sought to disable Parliament as much as possible
— given key Government roles to ministers who are in line with his approach
— put in place hurdles for voting
— limited our right to protest
— fabricated a culture war that is deliberately designed to sow further division
— thrown his own junior staff and other groups of people under the bus to protect himself
— shown only disrespect for the devolved nations
— been happy to see any opposition voices cast as traitors to the UK and effectively done so himself
— chosen to imperil peace in Northern Ireland
— rewritten the ministerial code to protect himself and his Govt

… the list goes on and on …

All of it done to serve himself.”

@Cornettoninja

I was just thinking if everything were listed how long would it be!

He’s proud of his strategy though isn’t he & incapable of the truth:

In the video, Boris Johnson said: "I've got a brilliant new strategy, which is to make so many gaffes that nobody knows which one to concentrate on.
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"They cease to be newsworthy, you completely out-general the media in that way, and they despair.
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"You shell them, you pepper the media... you've got to pepper their positions with so many gaffes that they're confused.

Grrrr angry talking about him - wish hadn’t bothered. The desired effect…..

Mandrake Exclusive: The extraordinary detail of how Downing Street tried to bury that Carrie Johnson story

twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/1539242847622266882?t=hLj455Ei1wanl-n8-ayxlQ&s=19

From reading that article in The New European I'm mostly intrigued by what "her office" and "her aides" amount to? Who's paying for them etc? Presumably Mrs Johnson herself?

More to the point, why has she got them? What is her government job? And if she hasn't got one, other than servicing Mr Johnson, as you say, who's paying for them and why?

Surely nobody is surprised that more sleaze will ooze out from our Bawbag shagaholic of a PM - that the majority of Tory MP's support as the best they have to offer?

Alastair Campbell tweeting that Dacre is to be elevated to the Lords. They really are trolling us aren't they.

Unfortunately they're not trolling us. We cannot simply mute or block them. Or even escape by turning off the computer altogether!😱

PM Johnson scratches the right backs, they scratch his and there's fuck all any of us can do about it.🤷‍♀️ Neither he, his government or their rich and powerful friends give a fuck about the people of the UK.

It's not trolling, it's controlling.

I agree. You couldn't make it up.

Sunday: Paul Dacre gets a call from No 10 instructing him to drop the Carrie Story.

Tuesday: Paul Dacre gets a call from number 10 to offer him a place in the House of Lords.