Boris Johnson, conflict of interest with Jennifer Arcuri? [split topic]

[Fambo Number Mive]

Greater London Authority has referred Boris Johnson to Independent Office for Police Conduct so it can assess if it should investigate him for misconduct in public office - which would be a criminal offence. In connection to claims over Jennifer Arcuri...

https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1177661387881025537

[Fambo Number Mive]

An oil company run by a major Tory donor who met with Boris Johnson has had a billion pound deal underwritten by the British taxpayer despite it being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office, The Independent can reveal.

Ayman Asfari, the chief executive of Petrofac, has given hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Conservatives over the past decade and held private meetings with the prime minister and other senior Tories to discuss the war in Syria.

Documents obtained by The Independent show that Mr Asfari met with Mr Johnson in August 2016, just a month after he began his controversial period as foreign secretary...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ayman-asfari-boris-johnson-tory-donor-oil-deal-syria-war-a9122136.html

When you click on the link, a small video of Boris Johnson autoplays so you may want to turn off your sound

[BlodwynPig]

Trumpian playbook those bits above. Teflon Don and Asbestos Boris

[Johnny Yesno]

Exclusive: Jennifer Arcuri won visa after Johnson backed firm

Contacted by the Guardian, Arcuri broke her week-long silence to declare: "The stories you are writing are more and more false. These are fake news."

But when a reporter pointed out that government documents publicly available on the internet prove she was accepted on to the entrepreneur scheme months after Johnson promoted her business, asking her to clarify which part was false, she replied: "No comment."

That's the game, these days. Just lie and hope the journalist you're talking to hasn't done their job, which 9 out of 10 times you can probably rely on.

[phantom_power]

Boris appears to have smartened himself up a bit. Wonder why?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49794693

[DrGreggles]

Boris appears to have smartened himself up a bit. Wonder why?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49794693

Was he dragged through the hedge forwards this this time?

[steveh]

Wrong thread.

[Johnny Yesno]

Boris appears to have smartened himself up a bit. Wonder why?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49794693

All I can say is I am very proud of what we did as Mayor of London...

...particularly the bridge.

[Blue Jam]

Boris appears to have smartened himself up a bit. Wonder why?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49794693

Donald/Judd Trump-style creative combing.

[phantom_power]

I thought it was more someone said "you can look like a scruffy cunt when you are being lolboz bumbling fool but when you are trying to be hard and serious it undermines the message somewhat if you can't even tame your hair"

[imitationleather]

With his hair combed he looks absolutely ridiculous though. Like a ten year old public schoolboy in church on Sunday.

[Buelligan]

Odd really, I didn't think I could hate hair more than Johnson's.


And then I saw that picture.

Fucking hell, sometimes baldness really is the best option. 

[Johnny Yesno]

Fucking hell, sometimes baldness really is the best option.

Hello CaB gentlemen reading this.

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Is there a word for giving £100k of public money and a publicly funded career leg-up to someone you're secretly banging?

Is it, possibly, a crime?

If any other politician had done this, would they have been forced to resign by now?

[imitationleather]

Is there a word for giving £100k of public money and a publicly funded career leg-up to someone you're secretly banging?

Prostitution?

[idunnosomename]

He looks like trump there

[Johnny Yesno]

Prostitution?

Johnson backed firm.

[Phil_A]

With his hair combed he looks absolutely ridiculous though. Like a ten year old public schoolboy in church on Sunday.

It's like in Oor Wullie when he was forced to comb his hair for some reason.

[Johnny Yesno]

Prostitution?

[split topic]

Rubbish, I know. Edit glitch removed, though, eh.

[Buelligan]

Is there a word for giving £100k of public money and a publicly funded career leg-up to someone you're secretly banging?

Is it, possibly, a crime?

If any other politician had done this, would they have been forced to resign by now?

Take a small moment to imagine where we'd be if Corbyn or McDonnell tried any shit like this.  Yeah.

Or closing down parliament. 

[Johnny Yesno]

Ah, but Labour have to be held to a higher standard. It's what we expect from the tories. Even while the tories expect a higher standard from the public.

This is because of reasons.

[Bently Sheds]

It seems it's not just about "Daytime Technology Lessons" and getting a leg-up in exchange for a bunk-up. She held events with far-right speakers as guests, which were funded by tax-payer's money, thanks to Boz's interference:

https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1176839648406122497

[Paul Calf]

Remember 'We're not far right, we're alt-right'? Seems a long time ago now.

[touchingcloth]

Is there a word for giving £100k of public money and a publicly funded career leg-up to someone you're secretly banging?

Is it, possibly, a crime?

If any other politician had done this, would they have been forced to resign by now?

Where did you hear that they were banging? All I've heard in the press is that she was someone who helped him to understand technology.

[olliebean]

Where did you hear that they were banging? All I've heard in the press is that she was someone who helped him to understand technology.

Plenty of stuff about this in the press today, here it is in The Times for example: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jennifer-arcuri-told-friends-of-affair-with-boris-johnson-h8m7wlpg2

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Take a small moment to imagine where we'd be if Corbyn or McDonnell tried any shit like this.  Yeah.

Or closing down parliament.

Anyone who has Tory/Brexiteer pals: the next time a story drops about Johnson's latest malfeasance, tell them the story exactly as it is but replace "Johnson" with "Corbyn" and see how they react.

[Buelligan]

And you know what's even weirder?  We all know there will be a next time.

[imitationleather]

When the cunt gets away with this free of any consequences I am going to be proper pissed off.

[George Oscar Bluth II]

And you know what's even weirder?  We all know there will be a next time.

This is a man whose first notable public appearance was being harangued by Ian Hislop on HIGNFY for giving his pal the address of a journalist he wanted to beat up. When that's your introduction to the public there's really nowhere you can go lower is there.

[Buelligan]

U-hum, clearly, in this case, there was.  Lower than a jack russell even.