The current British corruption scandals

[joluoto]

So for our first scandal of the week we have Boris Johnson getting help from Richard Sharp in facilitating a £800,00 loan. Just a few weeks later the same Richard Sharp was appointed BBC chairman, by PM Boris Johnson. Not a coincidence.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64383742

Richard Sharp: BBC chairman says he will not quit over Boris Johnson loan row​

Our second scandal of the week involves Conservative Party Chairman Nadim Zahawi. Now Zahawi is an interesting case. When Rishi Sunak resigned as Chancellor this summer Boris appointed Zahawi as the new Chancellor, however Zahawi then immediately stabbed his boss in the back and started to call for Boris to resign. However he was Chancellor for a couple of months when Boris replacement was sorted out. However Zahawi had a problem, he was investigated for not having paid tax for gains while selling of hi YouGov shares. While that might be a small thing in itself, he can't really run the HMRC while bing under investigated by the HMRC. So it has now been revealed he quietly settled the issue by paying a £5 million penalty, which was about how much they were believing he owed, but still, this means a high rank politician had avoided paying £5 million in taxes for years, and then settled it behind closed doors to make it go away.

Key questions about Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs​

And now PM Sunak's hand has basically been forced to open an investigation into the whole Zahawi tax affair.

Rishi Sunak orders investigation into Nadhim Zahawi tax row​

 

[PeteEU]

It is actually worse. It had been known for years that Boris was in financial problems..long before he became PM.

He also has/had very close links to Russian oligarchs and the son of one was put in the House of Lords by Johnson against the advice of the intelligence services.

Now if you know your history, there has been a long tradition of leaders getting loans and then refusing to repay them by literally killing the loan givers. The French kings were great at doing this, especially when it came to Jewish lenders. Hell many believe that eradication of the Knights Templars was due to the French king owed them vast amounts of money (they were the richest organisation in the world at the time).

Point is.. Boris had always been anti Brexit until he was not..could Radcliffe have something to do with this? He was always partying with Russians in London and southern Europe, until he suddenly turned on Russia. He buried a government report that exposed Russian influence in British politics.. odd eh?

So....one has to wonder if his changes in attitude have more to do with avoiding paying massive loans than anything morally or politically. He clearly has been easy to bribe. He or someone in his government helped the owner of the Wagner group, who was under sanctions long before the war.. they helped him to sue a British journalist.

Will the UK government or media ever dig into this...nope. But it deserves an investigation that is for sure.

 

[joluoto]

So today's scandal is: migrant children housed by the government in hotels (and now you are thinking nice ones, these are not nice hotels you go on vacation on) go missing apparently all the time, and are most likely picked up by trafickers at said hotels. Huh.

Charities urge PM to stop using hotels to house migrant children​

 

[joluoto]

Nadhim Zahawi committed a serious breach of ministerial code, says Sunak​

Zahawi is sacked. Sunak realized that if he kept protecting him, it will all spill over on his government (it already has).

 

[PeteEU]

Nadhim Zahawi committed a serious breach of ministerial code, says Sunak​

Zahawi is sacked. Sunak realized that if he kept protecting him, it will all spill over on his government (it already has).

Funny thing is that.. he rehired Suella Braverman after she was fired for... the exact same crime of breaching the Ministerial code. She is still in her post.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

Funny thing is that.. he rehired Suella Braverman after she was fired for... the exact same crime of breaching the Ministerial code. She is still in her post.

Not defending Braverman, she's an evil woman but made a song and dance about her resignation with breaching the code. For me, she did it to try and make out she was an honest politician who fell on her sword after discovering she breached the code.

Zahawi however was in a very different position and was trying to conceal what was going on.

 

[PeteEU]

Not defending Braverman, she's an evil woman but made a song and dance about her resignation with breaching the code. For me, she did it to try and make out she was an honest politician who fell on her sword after discovering she breached the code.

Wait what? She broke the code multiple times and was assigned a freaking teacher from MI5 to teach her about security and the still managed to send government documents to a fellow MP and his freaking wife in another breach of national security. She did not fall on her sword.. she left in disgrace for being an absolute idiot.

Zahawi however was in a very different position and was trying to conceal what was going on.

Nope sorry. Both are utterly corrupt and in both cases the current prime minister failed. He should never have hired that bitch again and should have fired Zahawi as soon as he got word about the problem.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

Wait what?

See below:

Nope sorry.

Like I said in my previous: "she did it to try and make out she was an honest politician who fell on her sword after discovering she breached the code"

I was reporting how she tried to present it. Zahawi just tried to bluff things out.