Boris Johnson and replacement Liz Truss resign
Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2022 8:34 pm
At first BoJo would stay on as PM even though he "resigned", but now he's out of office.
As for the reasons for why he was forced to step down? Partygate, the sexual misconduct not of Boris, but of somebody he hired (or something)?
You'd almost think that Boris has no real scandals...
Johnson had an annual budget of £30,000 to renovate the PM’s official Downing St flat. So in early 2020 Boris planned to spend £208,104 for renovation. The rest of the cost, £170,800, would secretly be funded by Lord Brownlow and the Conservative Party.
But then the scandal was exposed, Johnson apologised and had to pay it out of his own pocket (did he really?).
The £208,104 for renovation included a £3,675 drinks trolley like the one owned by ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev and £2,260 worth of the “gold” wallpaper.
The more than £78,000 for the drawing room.
It also included 2 Aten hurricane lights, at £1,775 a piece.
http://web.archive.org/web/202207081851 ... a07135a815
Shortly after winning the 2019 general election, Boris Johnson and then-financee Carrie Symonds took a holiday on the island of Mustique. Boris declared that the stay at the villa worth £15,000 was paid for by Tory donor, Carphone Warehouse founder, David Ross.
Johnson and Symonds didn't stay at Ross' local holiday home and Ross denied paying for the stay. Then after the scandal broke he suddenly admitted paying for it.
According to the commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, the bill had not been paid by David Ross and the cost was more than double Boris' declaration, £33,000 for the 10 days spent: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... anced.html
Boris Johnson made a deal with Sir James Dyson to not pay taxes for producing ventilators needed to blow up COVID victims' lungs, promising, "I will fix it".
PM BoJo wrote to Dyson: "[Chancellor] Rishi [Sunak] says it is fixed!! We need you here".
Sunak explained that the tax status of people who came to the UK to provide "help" during the pandemic would not change, meaning that they didn't have to pay tax in the UK.
Former Labour PM Tony Blair (recently installed in the Order of the Garter) defended the tax break given to Dyson.
Labour MP Powell responded:
As for the reasons for why he was forced to step down? Partygate, the sexual misconduct not of Boris, but of somebody he hired (or something)?
You'd almost think that Boris has no real scandals...
Johnson had an annual budget of £30,000 to renovate the PM’s official Downing St flat. So in early 2020 Boris planned to spend £208,104 for renovation. The rest of the cost, £170,800, would secretly be funded by Lord Brownlow and the Conservative Party.
But then the scandal was exposed, Johnson apologised and had to pay it out of his own pocket (did he really?).
The £208,104 for renovation included a £3,675 drinks trolley like the one owned by ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev and £2,260 worth of the “gold” wallpaper.
The more than £78,000 for the drawing room.
It also included 2 Aten hurricane lights, at £1,775 a piece.
http://web.archive.org/web/202207081851 ... a07135a815
Shortly after winning the 2019 general election, Boris Johnson and then-financee Carrie Symonds took a holiday on the island of Mustique. Boris declared that the stay at the villa worth £15,000 was paid for by Tory donor, Carphone Warehouse founder, David Ross.
Johnson and Symonds didn't stay at Ross' local holiday home and Ross denied paying for the stay. Then after the scandal broke he suddenly admitted paying for it.
According to the commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, the bill had not been paid by David Ross and the cost was more than double Boris' declaration, £33,000 for the 10 days spent: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... anced.html
Boris Johnson made a deal with Sir James Dyson to not pay taxes for producing ventilators needed to blow up COVID victims' lungs, promising, "I will fix it".
PM BoJo wrote to Dyson: "[Chancellor] Rishi [Sunak] says it is fixed!! We need you here".
Sunak explained that the tax status of people who came to the UK to provide "help" during the pandemic would not change, meaning that they didn't have to pay tax in the UK.
Former Labour PM Tony Blair (recently installed in the Order of the Garter) defended the tax break given to Dyson.
Labour MP Powell responded:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-56819137It seems that this country only works for people who are rich enough and, frankly, donors to the Tory party, who have got the personal phone numbers of the chancellor or the prime minister.