Government Corruption

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The sorry tale of David Cameron and Greensill is simply as execrable as it ever gets

British politics over the last few years has not gone short on execrable moments, but if there has been a single one more execrable than David Cameron’s attempts to justify what he was up to at the now-bankrupt Greensill Capital then, well, I can only conclude my subconscious is keeping it buried deep down where it belongs.

Nothing I can ever recall runs this horror show close.

It’s not merely that it was all very obviously bulls***. That sort of thing is not uncommon. It’s that the entire premise, the entire terms of engagement were bulls*** too. To watch and listen to Cameron for two and a half full hours was not just to witness a man building a house of bulls*** using only bulls*** bricks and bulls*** cement. And it’s not just that the foundations were bulls*** too. The very earth into which it was set, the entire landmass and the wide sea around it – Bulls***. Bulls***. Bulls***.

We begin with a tale of pity, self-pity, of course. How had it come to pas>>>>>> https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/the-sorry-tale-of-david-cameron-and-greensill-is-simply-as-execrable-as-it-ever-gets/ar-BB1gHDgT?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBoPWjQ

He stood to make £200,000,000. TWO HUNDRED MILLION QUID!!
But his lobbying was purely altruistic, he was doing it for the good of the UK economy (he claims).

Literally an unimaginable sum. This guy is already insanely wealthy, as is his wife.
No word exist that can describe this level of avaricious greed.
As for Boris, just read in the Mirror that the true cost of his caribbean holiday was probably double what he declared.
Seems his 'environmentalist' gf isn't shy about living the good life, is she? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/b ... h-24114623

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It's never bloody ending...

No outage of PPE? Medics dressed in binbags was a mirage then?

[Grafenwalder]

It's never bloody ending...

No outage of PPE? Medics dressed in binbags was a mirage then?

According to the Wail, Brooks also likes sending "lewd photographs". Though i'm not sure who was posing as a "glamorous 20-year-old Tory PR woman".

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tract.html

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According to the Wail, Brooks also likes sending "lewd photographs". Though i'm not sure who was posing as a "glamorous 20-year-old Tory PR woman".

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tract.html

Why is the Mail getting on the back of this and why has Gove disappeared? Ah.

I sense a disturbance in the Force, Rupes and Rothermere have fallen out?

[Grafenwalder]

According to the Wail, Brooks also likes sending "lewd photographs". Though i'm not sure who was posing as a "glamorous 20-year-old Tory PR woman".

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tract.html

Why is the Mail getting on the back of this and why has Gove disappeared? Ah.

I sense a disturbance in the Force, Rupes and Rothermere have fallen out?

The worm is turning.

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The independent panel investigating the Daniel Morgan scandal is refusing the home secretary’s demands to hand over its report before it can be published, as senior police sources say nothing in the case affects national security.

Priti Patel provoked fury on Tuesday by demanding the findings be handed over for review prior to publication, angering both the Morgan family and members of the panel conducting the inquiry.

Patel cited the need to consider national security and human rights obligations before making the report public.

But one source with close knowledge of the five Metropolitan police inquiries into the case and the documents involved, said: “There are no national security issues involved. There are national embarrassment issues.”

The row has delayed publication of the report, which was due next Monday, eight years after the inquiry was set up.

The report, which runs to more than 1,000 pages, was already at the printers when the Home Office intervened.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... ver-report

The Home Secretary lobbied a chief constable to end an Extinction Rebellion protest that was blocking a newspaper print works owned by Rupert Murdoch, a court heard today.

Priti Patel and the Prime Minster were said to be “taking an interest” as 50 Extinction Rebellion protestors blockaded the print works, preventing Murdoch’s national newspapers from leaving the Hertfordshire plant.

The demonstration at the news-printing site at Broxbourne on 4 September last year stopped three-and-a-half million copies of national newspapers, including the Daily Mail, the Sun, The Times and the Telegraph, from being distributed.

Superintendent Edward Wells, who had been called out to deal with the demonstration, told St Albans Magistrates Court that the Assistant Chief Constable of Hertfordshire, Owen Weatherill, had told him of a call from Priti Patel to Hertfordshire Chief Constable Charlie Hall during the night-time protest by the climate change activists.

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/05/21/prit ... urt-hears/

Meanwhile.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK must see free trade agreements ‘not as threats but as opportunities’.

It comes as it is understood the UK is preparing to offer Australia a trade deal that would see tariffs and quotas phased out over 15 years.

The deal has been described as potentially ‘devastating’ by NFU Scotland.

The farming union has warned the move could see more produce, particularly beef and sheep meat, coming into the UK.

They fear it will lower standards and larger farms in Australia will undercut farmers in Scotland.

NFU Scotland chief executive Scott Walker said: “No consultation has been had with NFU Scotland on such proposals and any such deal would be wholly unacceptable to Scottish farmers and crofters.

“The impact on family farms of food produced to lower standards than those set here would be devastating.”

https://news.stv.tv/politics/warning-of ... a-deal?top

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I've not seen any celebrations for the D-Day invasion of Norway today in 1944, not a whiff of a Spitfire. No bad news to bury?

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[Lady Murasaki]

That’s one.

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It doesnt seem to matter what they do or how corrupt they have become, still nothing get's done and they know it.

[Grafenwalder]

Pity none of them will ever see jail though.

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Details of calls and texts from the Home Secretary to a chief constable and an assistant chief constable during a blockade of a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper printing works by Extinction Rebellion (XR) protestors have been deleted, a judge was told today.

Priti Patel called Charlie Hall, Hertfordshire’s Chief Constable, last September when approximately 50 climate change activists began a demonstration at the Newsprinters site, a subsidiary of Murdoch’s News UK, stopping three-and-a-half million copies of national newspapers, including the Daily Mail, the Sun, The Times and the Telegraph, from being distributed. The court heard the blockade cost the newspaper printers £1 million.

After the police removed the XR demonstrators, the Gold Commander Assistant Chief Constable Matt Nicholls received a text from the Home Secretary thanking him for the force’s work, St Albans Magistrates’ court heard.

However, Raj Chada, who is representing some of the six protestors on trial, told District Judge Sally Fudge that “two phones of two very senior officers have had their messages deleted”.

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/06/11/poli ... -blockade/

Never ending.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57413115

The government acted unlawfully when it awarded a £560,000 contract to a firm run by former colleagues of Michael Gove and the PM's adviser Dominic Cummings, the High Court has ruled.

Mr Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, denied any favouritism had been shown to market research agency Public First.

But the judge said a failure to consider other firms could be seen as suggesting a "real danger" of bias.

Public First looked into public understanding of coronavirus.

Campaigners took legal action against Mr Gove over the Cabinet Office's decision to use the company following the start of the pandemic last year.

They also questioned the involvement of Mr Cummings, who worked in Downing Street until he quit as the prime minister's chief adviser last autumn

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Boris Johnson is to strip the Electoral Commission of the power to prosecute law-breaking, just weeks after it launched an investigation into his controversial flat refurbishment.

The watchdog has been threatened with curbs ever since it embarrassed senior Tory figures by fining Vote Leave for busting spending limits for the Brexit referendum.

Now ministers have announced that a new Elections Bill will remove its ability to prosecute criminal offences under electoral law – arguing it “wastes public money”.

The watchdog launched an immediate protest, warning the move would “place a fetter on the commission which would limit its activity”.

The shake-up was condemned as a “thinly-veiled government power grab” by the Electoral Reform Society.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 68407.html

It's fucking relentless.