Hancock tried to block plan to build 400 homes in Newmarket

[BillyStubbsTears]

https://amp.ft.com/content/42350b44-9e3c-47e0-a151-4f44ddfe37fc?emailId=5ef5dd0b0b847800041deb55&segmentId=7d033110-c776-45bf-e9f2-7c3a03d2dd26&__twitter_impression=true

This piece has THE quote which sums up why Johnson's Govt will fall apart.

this government is conflicted: it owes its majority to one income group and its soul to another. Mr Desmond agreed that his development would include 35 per cent affordable housing; in the end, it offered just 21 per cent. Mr Jenrick approved it anyway.

[SydneyRover]

It's hard to see how he will be able to make it though the next week, although he does have the confidence of the PM.

''Robert Jenrick admits Israeli billionaire in donor row is family friend

Tory minister under pressure over meeting with Idan Ofer while considering rival mine project''

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/27/robert-jenrick-admits-israeli-billionaire-in-donor-row-is-family-friend

[Draytonian III]

Robert Jenrick’s wife is a lady from Israel who works as a lawyer

[SydneyRover]

From the Times

''Senior officials “begged” Robert Jenrick to block a £1bn property deal backed by the Tory donor Richard Desmond, it emerged last night. But the housing secretary overruled the objections from civil servants and lawyers to push it through. A Whitehall whistleblower said Jenrick dismissed their advice over the luxury...''

paywall

[SydneyRover]

Money money money

''Revealed: Developers PM backed when London mayor give almost £1m to Tories

Exclusive: Public records show cash injections in past year from tycoons linked to projects''

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/28/revealed-developers-backed-by-boris-johnson-when-london-mayor-donate-almost-1m-to-tories

[idler]

Pictures in the paper today of Johnson and Desmond playing on the kids swings and roundabout in a park. They both look like they have had a drink or two and it is dark.

[SydneyRover]

Carving up the country and the profits: childs play

[SydneyRover]

Patel is the latest from the gov't to try and tell us gravity is a thing of the past, is there a conga line of them all queuing to tell us black is white.


''The home secretary, Priti Patel, has become the latest senior Conservative to rally behind the housing minister, Robert Jenrick, claiming he was “transparent” in his involvement in the planning application of a Tory donor’s billion-pound housing scheme.

The “cash for favours” scandal surrounding Jenrick shows no sign of abating after the Sunday Times reported a whistleblower as saying that officials had apparently begged him not to give donor Richard Desmond’s Westferry Printworks development in east London the go-ahead''

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/28/priti-patel-backs-robert-jenrick-over-cash-for-favours-scandal

[Donnywolf]

They are morally destitute

[Draytonian III]

I think it must come with the territory because his predecessor Patrick Mercer was caught taking a back hander.

[SydneyRover]

I think it must come with the territory because his predecessor Patrick Mercer was caught taking a back hander.

Well it had to be graft, racism or both Drayton quite a recurring theme in the tory party.

In 2007 he was forced to quit his position as shadow homeland security spokesperson following an interview with The Times where he claimed that racist abuse was an acceptable part of a soldier's life, and had admitted that many black soldiers in his regiment had been referred to as "nigger".[35]

Mercer resigned the Conservative Party whip on 31 May 2013 after an investigation by the Daily Telegraph and BBC's Panorama caught him on camera accepting payment for lobbying.[36] On 29 April 2014, Mercer announced he would resign his seat following his suspension from the Commons for six months.[37] He was appointed to the Chiltern Hundreds the next day, making the resignation effective.[citation needed] A by-election for the vacant Newark seat was held on 5 June 2014.[38]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Mercer

[Draytonian III]

Patrick Mercer’s predecessor Fiona Jones who was Labour was also up to the same think, but she had a very sad end

[SydneyRover]

I have no sympathy for curruption by MPs of any colour but her conviction was overturned.

Not sure why she was shunned by colleagues it sounds like their were machinations going on in the labour party for preselection.

''Jones reportedly became reliant on alcohol after she was shunned by her colleagues when she returned to the House of Commons in 1999 - only 34 signed an early day motion welcoming her back to the House of Commons after her conviction was quashed.[3][14] Her husband said that she refused to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in case she was recognised.[7]

She was found dead at her home in Saxilby by her husband, reportedly surrounded by 15 empty vodka bottles.[3][7] Her cause of death was reported as alcoholism or alcoholic liver disease.[14][15]

Fiona Elizabeth Ann Jones (née Hamilton; 27 February 1957 – 28 January 2007) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark in Labour's landslide victory in the 1997 general election.

Jones was accused of fraudulently failing to declare the full amount of her election costs, convicted of election fraud in March 1999, and had the Labour whip withdrawn. She was the first MP to be disqualified from membership of the House of Commons for that offence since it was introduced by the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act 1883. However, the Court of Appeal overturned her conviction within weeks: the disqualification was revoked, and she resumed her place in the House of Commons. However, she lost her seat in the 2001 general election. She later lost a civil case brought against the police for malicious prosecution.''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Jones