Peerages for Brexiters, Knighthoods for Tax dodgers

[Randy McNob]

The media normalises what I think is downright corruption

Boris hands out peerages to MPs who backed Brexit, including some Labour MPs and even Brexit party MEPS. Presumably he got his brexit deal through parliament (or bought) on a promise of later reward?

and get this, Theresa May's husband Philip May, who worked for a firm who avoided paying corporation tax whilst paying directors $43m during an 8 year period is given a Knighthood !

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/theresa-mays-husbands-firm-avoided-11593549

 

[zefarelly]

the whole system is a sick joke to 99% of the population.

 

[Gwylan]

the whole system is a sick joke to 99% of the population.

That's clearly not true - the Tories are still polling well above 40%

 

[peterward]

The media normalises what I think is downright corruption

Boris hands out peerages to MPs who backed Brexit, including some Labour MPs and even Brexit party MEPS. Presumably he got his brexit deal through parliament (or bought) on a promise of later reward?

and get this, Theresa May's husband Philip May, who worked for a firm who avoided paying corporation tax whilst paying directors $43m during an 8 year period is given a Knighthood !

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/theresa-mays-husbands-firm-avoided-11593549

give it up, Corbyn lost and we're out

 

[lawros left foot]

A Russian oligarch donor to the Conservative and Unionist Party gifted a peerage by the Tories.


Nothing corrupt about that at all.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

The media normalises what I think is downright corruption

Boris hands out peerages to MPs who backed Brexit, including some Labour MPs and even Brexit party MEPS. Presumably he got his brexit deal through parliament (or bought) on a promise of later reward?

and get this, Theresa May's husband Philip May, who worked for a firm who avoided paying corporation tax whilst paying directors $43m during an 8 year period is given a Knighthood !

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/theresa-mays-husbands-firm-avoided-11593549

Remind me who Labour handed out peerages to ? Both parties are as bad as each other but only morons link it to Brexit.

 

[Gwylan]

Remind me who Labour handed out peerages to ? Both parties are as bad as each other but only morons link it to Brexit.

I'm not in favour of the honours system or the HoL but seeing that pretty much every peerage in this list has gone to a Brexiteer, you're being totally deluded if you think it has nothing to do with Brexit.

 

[smiler]

Remind me who Labour handed out peerages to ? Both parties are as bad as each other but only morons link it to Brexit.

Boris is a moron then

 

[vegster]

A Russian oligarch donor to the Conservative and Unionist Party gifted a peerage by the Tories.


Nothing corrupt about that at all.

Expect more peerages for Russian supporters of the Conservative party for several years to come and indeed in Johnson's eventual Resignation Honours list.

I'm still waiting for @Bakerlite to explain why he " Shuddered" at the thought of a Labour Government but seems totally at ease with a Tory government propped up by Russian money? Lots of very large donations for individual MP's too....?

 

[Billy the Fish]

Remind me who Labour handed out peerages to ? Both parties are as bad as each other but only morons link it to Brexit.

Beat me to it!

This isn't a new thing, a Boris thing or even a Tory thing.

How do people think Labour donor Alan Sugar got his peerage

 

[zefarelly]

give it up, Corbyn lost and we're out

Thats got nothing to do with anything

the three main political parties are all as bad as each other . . . The system is corrupt. Granted the occaisional dinner lady/lolippop mangets one to appease the mail readers but other than that its just a wankfest of *****.

 

[blue-shifted]

The media normalises what I think is downright corruption

Boris hands out peerages to MPs who backed Brexit, including some Labour MPs and even Brexit party MEPS. Presumably he got his brexit deal through parliament (or bought) on a promise of later reward?

and get this, Theresa May's husband Philip May, who worked for a firm who avoided paying corporation tax whilst paying directors $43m during an 8 year period is given a Knighthood !

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/theresa-mays-husbands-firm-avoided-11593549

To the victor, go the spoils.

I feel ill

 

[Surrey_Albion]

Corrupt and tinpot country

 

[zefarelly]

Corrupt and tinpot country

Except we don't have any tin or mines any more

We're heading toward some kind of despot island life though for sure

 

[beorhthelm]

The media normalises what I think is downright corruption

Boris hands out peerages to MPs who backed Brexit, including some Labour MPs and even Brexit party MEPS. Presumably he got his brexit deal through parliament (or bought) on a promise of later reward?

and get this, Theresa May's husband Philip May, who worked for a firm who avoided paying corporation tax whilst paying directors $43m during an 8 year period is given a Knighthood !

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/theresa-mays-husbands-firm-avoided-11593549

im wondering what the knighthood has to do with the company or their tax affairs. they've followed tax rules or is there insinuation they havent, had some preferential treatment, the article doesnt make such suggestion. all it shows is people dont understand companies pay tax on profit, not turnover.

 

[Pinkie Brown]

The honours system has always been subject to cronyism and favour whichever party has been in power. This latest list has taken it off the scale though. A Labour government of the future must abolish this archaic and undemocratic institution by replacing it with a senate based on PR.

There are individuals on that list who shouldn't be anywhere near a seat of decision making or judgement in national government.

- Botham. A boorish yob not known for his smarts with a rap sheet of scandals, anti social behaviour, plus general twatishness.

- Gisela Stuart. A German migrant who moved to the UK under FOM then proceeded to campaign to have that same freedom removed from British and EU Citizens.

- Kate Hoey, Barking swivel eyed loon. Supporter of blood sports and NI Unionist bigots

- Phillip May. Cronyism. Service to tax avoidance maybe? Or honoured for standing next to his wife and smiling nicely at the correct moment. Who knows.

- Jo Johnson. Blatant family cronyism. Could be argued he has some gravitas and qualification.

- Worst of the lot - Claire Fox. Apologist of paedophiles and IRA terrorists. Something of a mixed up individual. Gone from Revolutionary Communist to the other extreme. In truth, little difference in the ideology. Made controversial comments after the Warrington bombing of 1993. When standing as an MEP in the North West last year she was unrepentant. Only when Farage stepped in did she telephone the bereaved parents to apologise. An apology described afterwards as ambiguous. Despite her contempt for the local victims, many local electorate deemed her a suitable candidate by voting for the party she was standing for. Still that same electorate 'knew what they were voting for' I'm sure.

- Yevgeny Lebedev. Son of an ex KGB agent. Dubious history. Yevgeny was kind enough to give Johnson digs for his visits to Italy when London mayor and foreign secretary. Not to mention other donations to Tories from Russian sources. One good turn deserves another. No such thing as a free lunch and all that.

The actions of Johnson are now into Banana Republic territory. A corrupt self serving government totally out of control.They have made the eventual demise of this undemocratic chamber come a little closer.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Worst of the lot - Claire Fox. Apologist of paedophiles and IRA terrorists. Something of a mixed up individual. Gone from Revolutionary Communist to the other extreme. In truth, little difference in the ideology. Made controversial comments after the Warrington bombing of 1993. When standing as an MEP in the North West last year she was unrepentant. Only when Farage stepped in did she telephone the bereaved parents to apologise. An apology described afterwards as ambiguous. Despite her contempt for the local victims, many local electorate deemed her a suitable candidate by voting for the party she was standing for. Still that same electorate 'knew what they were voting for' I'm sure.

She is also a Holocaust denier, and wouldn't ban child pornography from the internet. She is totally abhorrent.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

That is why I am totally anti-establishment, unlike many on here, who moan and groan but are so frigging insecure that they can't bear the thought of not being under the ' safety net that ' Big Brother ' throws over you. Politics, the Civil Service, the Diplomatic Service, the Judiciary and the City are havens for privileged public schoolboys, who can hide their incompetence, corruption and sexual deviancy under a veneer of respectability and emerge at the end of it, with a knighthood and a lot of money.

 

[zefarelly]

The honours system has always been subject to cronyism and favour whichever party has been in power. This latest list has taken it off the scale though. A Labour government of the future must abolish this archaic and undemocratic institution by replacing it with a senate based on PR.

There are individuals on that list who shouldn't be anywhere near a seat of decision making or judgement in national government.

- Botham. A boorish yob not known for his smarts with a rap sheet of scandals, anti social behaviour, plus general twatishness.

- Gisela Stuart. A German migrant who moved to the UK under FOM then proceeded to campaign to have that same freedom removed from British and EU Citizens.

- Kate Hoey, Barking swivel eyed loon. Supporter of blood sports and NI Unionist bigots

- Phillip May. Cronyism. Service to tax avoidance maybe? Or honoured for standing next to his wife and smiling nicely at the correct moment. Who knows.

- Jo Johnson. Blatant family cronyism. Could be argued he has some gravitas and qualification.

- Worst of the lot - Claire Fox. Apologist of paedophiles and IRA terrorists. Something of a mixed up individual. Gone from Revolutionary Communist to the other extreme. In truth, little difference in the ideology. Made controversial comments after the Warrington bombing of 1993. When standing as an MEP in the North West last year she was unrepentant. Only when Farage stepped in did she telephone the bereaved parents to apologise. An apology described afterwards as ambiguous. Despite her contempt for the local victims, many local electorate deemed her a suitable candidate by voting for the party she was standing for. Still that same electorate 'knew what they were voting for' I'm sure.

- Yevgeny Lebedev. Son of an ex KGB agent. Dubious history. Yevgeny was kind enough to give Johnson digs for his visits to Italy when London mayor and foreign secretary. Not to mention other donations to Tories from Russian sources. One good turn deserves another. No such thing as a free lunch and all that.

The actions of Johnson are now into Banana Republic territory. A corrupt self serving government totally out of control.They have made the eventual demise of this undemocratic chamber come a little closer.

Zimbabwe by the sea sprung to mind.

 

[SeagullDubai]

That reminds me I must renew my subscription to the Sepp Blatter/Michel Platini school of ethics.


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