Owen Paterson

[BillyStubbsTears]

The world is fine Ldr. Problem is just a few of the people in it.

[BillyStubbsTears]

So, two weeks ago Paterson was innocent and Johnson wanted to get rid of the watchdog.

Now he wants  to ban all MPs working as consultants.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59311003

A truly Damascene conversion.


Interesting how he would still allow MPs to earn £250k a year writing for the Telegraph, like he used to do.

[wilts rover]

from the latest Mariana Hyde column - discussing Johnson's attempts to install Dacre as head of Ofcom:

In the end, though, none of this is really is about Dacre, who is just another bitter and restless faded star with an excess of boiled piss. He is merely a symptom. The disease is a government yet again attempting to game the system to suit itself – or rather, the man who leads it. For never mind his enemies. Perhaps the most unique characteristic of Boris Johnson as a politician is that you couldn’t even find a single one of his friends who would claim he got into politics because he cared about public service. The question for Conservative MPs, as he grinds on regardless, is how many things this prime minister will be allowed to break, pervert or permanently distort in a spree motivated solely by his own self-interest. Many of them are worth saving; for some it might already be too late.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/16/boris-johnson-new-jobs-paul-dacre-ofcom

[SydneyRover]

despite an 80 seat majority johnson gets to eat shit and labour are ensuring his bowl is full, this won't be his last home cooked dinner.

[number19]

He's a local councillor to be fair, rather than an MP, but that is beneath disgusting.

In his apology apparently:

1) He's really, really sorry.
2) It was a prank. Banter.
3) It wasn't him what done it, it was a friend.
4) It wasn't him what done it, his account was "compromised."

So, basically, he's a bell and AND a liar.

Now suspended & his twitter account has disappeared, guess the majority thought it wasn't funny unlike Ldr

[SydneyRover]

Another mone

''Meanwhile, PPE Medpro was asked if anybody involved in the company had discussions with any peers as part of its approach to the government.

In their responses, neither Mone nor PPE Medpro disclosed that she had referred the company to Lord Agnew, a Cabinet Office minister.

At the time of the correspondence, Mone’s lawyers repeatedly denied that she had any connection or association with the company, or any role in how it secured the contracts.

One of the responses stated Mone and Barrowman “never had any role or function in PPE Medpro, nor in the process by which contracts were awarded to PPE Medpro”. Her lawyers said Mone was “not connected in any way with PPE Medpro” and added “any suggestion of an association” between their client and PPE Medpro would be “both inaccurate and misleading”.

The lawyers also said that “with reference to the ‘high priority lane’ … any suggestion that either [Mone or Barrowman] played any role in how the PPE Medpro contract was processed would be wholly inaccurate and misleading”.

''However, last week the DHSC disclosed that Mone had played a seemingly crucial role in the process, by making the initial recommendation to Agnew.

After her referral, Agnew recommended the company to the “VIP” lane for companies referred by ministers, MPs or peers.

Not sure how to describe this, an extremely large fib, lots and lots of little white lies, hiding behind one's fingers, being a little loose with the truth, telling a few porkies ...........

If you were paying for this what would you think, oh right ........

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/25/labour-calls-for-inquiry-into-tory-peer-michelle-mone-over-ppe-contract

[SydneyRover]

Owen Paterson .............. what a pathetic joke this man is ..............

''Owen Paterson taking UK to human rights court after lobbying scandal''

''Paterson, a leading Brexiter who also once argued the UK should “break free” from the ECHR, filed his case on the grounds that his right to respect for private life was infringed under article 8 of the European convention on human rights''

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/22/owen-paterson-taking-uk-to-human-rights-court-after-lobbying-scandal