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??

Leave him? But they married in a Catholic cathedral and, as is well known, RC marriage is sacred and cannot be put aside. That's why no divorced people can remarry in a Catholic church, oh, but wait...

He's a piece of shit.

No surprise when he does things a piece of shit would do.

I thought that was why the media published an article about Zac Goldsmith stepping out with Ellie Goulding.... @vinoandbrie

Agreed @jossysgiant

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g
the ludicrous Garden Bridge project

I quite liked the idea of the Garden Bridge, I enjoyed going to events during the London Olympics and I've travelled on the Emirates Air Line several times - fab.

That's great, Clavinova, you're obviously on Johnson's wavelength. Good to know there's one person who likes him.

This with bells on.

I thought the superinjunction was Carrie and ol’ Mr Goldsmith

EveryName
Any normal person wouldn't have entertained that line of conversation at all. That tape shows what his character is

I found this tape recording of John McDonnell more worrying -

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-42682854

Why did Keir Starmer demand that Rishi Sunak resign for drinking an orange juice in the cabinet room and yet he supported John McDonnell becoming Chancellor?

He's an utter scumbag. I would love if our political debate didn’t centre round what misdemeanour that arsewipe got up to each week, but that’s the level we’re at now. It feels like that’s all we talk about. I’d love to see him booted out and some sort of integrity and trust restored to our government. Where are all the grownups in the Conservative party? Why must we continue to be treated like fools?

Now interested to see if Shirley's comment is deleted.

Oh I completely agree it should be in the public domain! I just think that's how he's managed to silence it. Unreal isn't it? Just goes to show how money and power make justice an irrelevant concept. So depressing.

He’s disgusting. He makes my skin crawl and bile rise in my throat.

I’d only be surprised if he did something morally and ethically right now, tbh.

But that's everywhere too!

What do you expect? He's just a prime example of a Tory politician.

I asked it on this thread, about 5 posts in, it was deleted without even a “this breaks talk guidelines” post from MNHQ!

www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_live_events/4558699-mnhq-here-got-a-question-for-the-prime-minister

Yup this story about the Prime Minister's control of print media, mindless corruption, illegal deletion of records, violent conspiracy and squalid personal life definitely poses hard questions for the Leader of the Opposition.

I'm starting to agree with those who think oor Clav works for Labour.

He and his cabal elbowed out all the grown ups and it's been one continuous teen party in No10 ever since. We all know how they end. God knows who's going to be stuck with cleaning up the results.

@Clavinova

In hindsight, the majority of Londoners (52%) say he has done a good job, while 29% say he hasn't performed well.

If almost one in three of your clients said you hadn't performed well, would you not consider yourself to be doing a 'poor job'?

I would.

I'd vote for anyone that wasn't in this corrupt shitshow of a Government, and wasn't Prince fucking Andrew.

I'll happily vote for Keir Starmer - at least he has intelligence, and some semblance of a moral compass.

Don't many MPs give cushy and we'll paid 'admin' jobs to their wives/ girlfriends? Same thing surely, but no should not be allowed.

@Clavinova

I quite liked the idea of the Garden Bridge, I enjoyed going to events during the London Olympics and I've travelled on the Emirates Air Line several times - fab.

It's nice for you that you enjoyed projects like the garden bridge while in one of the richest countries in the world there are children going to school and bed hungry.

It was a ridiculous use of public funds that could only have been dreamt up by privileged and entitled people who think that seeing something aesthetically appealing will make up for an inexcusable standard of living in some areas in one of the richest countries in the world.

Rules changed in 2017 to stop this but if they were employed prior to this they could continue.

wellhelloitsme
@ clavinova If almost one in three of your clients said you hadn't performed well, would you not consider yourself to be doing a 'poor job'?

I think most politicians/public figures would be happy with that.

The Garden Bridge was a topic I got quite invested in when I lived in London - it was the right time and I was following the objections to the project quite closely. That whole episode alone ought to be enough to put people off voting for Boris! No one seemed to want to call
it an episode of corruption but it’s hard to frame it as anything else really. It should never have got to the point where large amounts of public money were spent on it (which we still haven’t got back I don’t think…?). I think it really demonstrated then that Johnson was happy to a)push bad ideas through cos he liked them b)ignore people who had very reasonable objections c)treat public money as if it was his own d)ignore procurement procedures to give people he likes jobs e)persist in a terrible idea to save face with no regard for ‘throwing good money after bad’. It was all a very pertinent insight into how he would behave as PM.