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??

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Must try a LOT harder. That is no excuse. The only response anyone should have to a 'friend' who makes a request like that is either to tell them to stop being so bloody stupid, or to go to the police. At the very least Guppy's intended victim was entitled to protection.

And it's "could have", not "could of".

Interesting article. I hadn't known that the ban had been lifted.

Guppy was a long time friend of Boris's (from Eton and Oxford). He may have had second thoughts about helping someone arrange to beat someone up but the fact he had any conversation about it at all is shocking.

It wasn't second thoughts. The victim was warned and the police contacted after a journalist recorded Johnson openly arranging the assault, so it didn't go ahead.

It's hardly the first violent incident Johnson has been allegedly involved with, just the first one actually recorded on tape.

That was before we knew the full facts including, for instance, how many millions he had wasted on the idiotic Garden Bridge and that ridiculously expensive failed Routemaster. Totally irrelevant now.

No, the main point is that he didn't put the phone down the moment that request was made and alert the police.

The buffoonery is an act - there are lots of stories from people who've known him and seen the cold steel in his eye when the mask has slipped. Also one where he was caught pretending to make up a speech on the fly which he'd actually already prepped, in order to seem 'shambolic but very clever with it'.

I think he is clever - but in a reptilian way, and only in pursuit of project Boris.

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.

Compared to paying a hooker with public money, as mayor of London, this is low level corruption.

He has just won a confidence vote after behaviour which puts these two incidents in the shade. For whatever reason he enjoys substantial support no matter what he does.

Carole Cadwalladr's recent libel victory using a public interest reporting defence was very important.

That can't really be emphasised enough right now.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/commentisfree/2022/jun/19/arron-banks-set-out-to-crush-me-in-court-instead-my-quest-for-the-facts-was-vindicated

I'm not sure there is such a thing as low level corruption, its just corruption.

Could it be there is a more general injunction to prevent stories about Carrie Johnson, and this story got caught up in that bigger piece and had to be pulled?

This

He has form for this kind of behaviour.

Sad thing is he will probably do the same to Carrie eventually.

Parallels with Henry VIII but he can’t chop anyone’s heads off.

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.

Do you live in London? There was literally no point whatsoever to the Garden Bridge. It would have been between two bridges that are only 500 metres apart and ruined one of the most iconic views in the world from Waterloo Bridge due to the obstructions caused by the proposed commercial buildings on the bridge. It would have involved destroying established trees and green space on the South Bank for no benefit - it was going to join the South Bank to Temple tube station, which is hardly an area that people flock to as it is essentially the area of the High Court and Middle and Inner Temple. As usual with Johnson, the tendering arrangements were distinctly dodgy, and it relied on continued commercial funding that simply was never going to happen because there was very little commercial interest in it.

And it cost the public purse well over £40 million. I know that pails into insignificance compared with the billions Johnson has wasted subsequently, but it's a shame no-one saw it for the warning it was.

Do you think any of that justifies something that you "quite liked"?

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

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I'm not sure there is such a thing as low level corruption, its just corruption.

I would suggest that giving your GF a job is less overt than going to a hooker during the day, taking her on trips and claiming the expenses back. Both are less overt than explicitly saying to parliament that you followed the rules while having pissed-up parties.

While it's a sad state of affairs when you have to lie and sneak to engage in cc orruptio. Its still better than wneg you can get away with it openly.

The' giving Carrie a job' days were a paragon of rectitude compared to now.

Do give over. Are you seriously going to waste time trying to defend outright corruption? If so, try explaining why, rather than wasting time with these ridiculous trawls around the internet for fruitless attempts to distract attention.

That was for “ more superinfection than superinjuction” btw!

Much of the Times article was covered in the longer original Mail article from February this year.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10480695/Carrie-Johnson-uncovered-Book-LORD-ASHCROFT-thats-set-Westminster-alight.html

The article is based on Lord Ashcroft's book about Carrie Johnson. No legal action was taken against publication of the book and it is still in print. The Daily Mail then published excerpts and no action was taken.

I watched a Tiktok last week that analysed Geidt's resignation letter, the creator noted that one paragraph was not about past issues, but what was to come. I'll see if I can find the video.

Last I saw, Sadiq Khan wasn't Prime Minister or running for Prime Minister. Nor has he tried to give a £100K a year publicly funded job to his mistress.

Some posters employ whataboutery as their sole attempt at what passes for debate in their world.

I would be absolutely delighted with a boring PM, so long as he was competent. The only thing that makes Johnson interesting is waiting for the next stinking dungheap of corruption, lies and outright incompetence to emerge.

Here we go again...

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) .