#TheresaVilliers was working as corrupt #BorisJohnson 's '#Environmental Secretary', while hiding 70,000💷 of shares in #ShellOil. I guess her job was to ensure that the 'environment' at #10DowningStreet was *shady as fuck*! She was very successful in that!
https://news.sky.com/story/theresa-villiers-mp-failed-to-declare-she-owned-shell-shares-worth-70-000-while-working-as-environment-secretary-12937653

The #Tories claim to believe the #market is always right.

So, its interesting that in 2022, they spent £2.4mn more than they raised through donations, which had dropped by over £3.5mn from the previous year.

This is partly the effect of the ousting of #BorisJohnson, unwelcome to the deep-pocketed behind his reign.

But, in a market if your product is losing money, its time to either change the product or find a new customer base; which may explain #RishiSunak's causing around for policies?

@Loukas

Fair comment; and we have #BorisJohnson as well.... but somehow (perhaps indicating a national characteristic), the Americans seem to do it bigger!

Behold Boris Johnson's nemesis, the great crested newt.

#BorisJohnson #newt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66370646

If you were wondering why the press has suddenly gone pretty quiet on #CharlotteOwen & her elevation to the #HouseofLords...

then you might be interested to know that rumour has it, there is a super injunction on her, which means that nobody in the UK media can talk about her, how she got appointed to the House of Lords & her connection(s) to #BorisJohnson.

so much for #democracy

"Rishi Sunak says net zero strategy must be ‘proportional and pragmatic’"

Boris Johnson was the Fuck Business PM; Rishi Sunak says Fuck Science. They seem to like fucking things up, these Tories.

#BorisJohnson #RishiSunak #FuckBusiness #FuckScience #Conservatives #NetZero

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/jul/24/rishi-sunak-labour-housebuilding-michael-gove-uk-politics-live-latest-updates

#RIPHarryFrankfurt, the American philosopher who provided a key guide to contemporary #politics: On Bullshit.

Famously Frankfurt distinguished between the liar (who has some regard for the truth, if only to avoid it), and the bullshitter who has no interest veracity or otherwise, and merely speaks what is (politically) expedient at any moment, never worrying about inconsistency...

If you wanted one book to guide you through the first decades of this century, this was it!

#BorisJohnson...

So the #Tories management of expectations was bang-on - they held onto Uxbridge but lost the other two seats contested in yesterday's #byelections.

The fact that they could hold on to one out of three (#BorisJohnson's old constituency) is in itself a metric of how warped the UK's #democracy is right now - that the wreckers still have some public support remains pretty depressing!

Today & into the weekend there will now be endless projections of what this all means for the next #election!

‘Carrie Johnson… joked: “Welcome to the world Frank Alfred Odysseus Johnson… Can you guess which name my husband [#BorisJohnson] chose?”…

In Greek mythology, Odysseus leaves behind his wife and child to seek adventure, encountering many other women’ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/11/carrie-boris-johnson-announce-birth-baby-boy-frank

Where the fucking fuck is #BorisJohnson's fucking phone?

#BorisJohnsonsPhone

RT Catherine @MrsNettles
Re @catherinerowett @Hairyloon Never mind the fact that an ex PM has defied orders to submit evidence apparently without incurring any punishment #ToryCorruption #BorisJohnson #WhatsApp #OneRuleForThem

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MrsNettles118/status/1678828150380195840

W BBC Radio Ulster:

"#Biden would not step foot in London until a UK Government dealt with threat to #NorthernIrelandProtocol.

There are still loud voices, especially supporters of #BorisJohnson and hard Brexiteers, who are still sniping. So US is watching carefully"

#Brexit

So, the deadline has passed for #BorisJohnson to provide the #CovidInquiry with the various massages from his old mobile phone. The Cabinet Office, having lost its attempt to be allowed to redact messages, notebooks etc., has indeed handed them over... Boris, not so much.

The Q. is will Baroness Hallett accept Johnson's claim that the (further) delay is due to technical issues around the 'secure' downloading of messages, or will she need to take further action?
And if so, what?

Given the reports of #artificialintelligence delivering various forms of bulls*t to various Q.s (making up sources or facts to suit the answer), it increasingly looks as if #BorisJohnson was actually softening us up for the use of #AI by normalising the use of an ambivalence to truth as a way of responding to Q.s.

The trouble is it was easy to identify when Boris was lying - he was opening his mouth - while AI is often doing a better job of hiding in the #technology we use....

As #Bolsonaro is banned from political office, #BorisJohnson is (finally) called to account & #Trump's legal problems look to be accelerating, perhaps we should be more optimistic about #constitutional safeguards....

The problem is that they (for good reason of due process & diligence) are slow to move against serial abusers.... but Johnson & his ilk can do a lot of damage in the lag, as we, #America & #Brazil have found out to our costs....

Faster constitutional mechanisms may be in order?

Britain’s 5 #Brexit Stages: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression…and Diet Pills

https://eaworldview.com/2023/06/britain-5-brexit-stages-denial-anger-bargaining-depression-and-diet-pills/

#BorisJohnson #BrexitShambles #Inflation #Mortgages

(co-published w Center for Brexit Studies)

Britain’s 5 #Brexit Stages: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression…and Diet Pills

https://eaworldview.com/2023/06/britain-5-brexit-stages-denial-anger-bargaining-depression-and-diet-pills/

#BorisJohnson #BrexitShambles #Inflation #Mortgages

(co-published w Center for Brexit Studies)

Amid #inflation, #mortgagecrisis, #BrexitShambles, #Partygate, disgraced ex-PM #BorisJohnson gets a big payoff to write a #DailyMail column

"Let history record: as Britain declined, Boris opined…about dietary supplements"

Britain’s 5 #Brexit Stages: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression…and Diet Pills

https://eaworldview.com/2023/06/britain-5-brexit-stages-denial-anger-bargaining-depression-and-diet-pills/

#BorisJohnson #BrexitShambles #Inflation #Mortgages

(co-published w Center for Brexit Studies)

RT One Night In Pomeroy
Everyone losing their shit about the Tories & Boris partying at number 10.....should have seen what Sinn Fein organised in Belfast when gatherings were limited to less than 30. Their 7 MP's, including @johnfinucane, attended. #BorisJohnson #PartygateVideo #BobbyStoreyFuneral https://t.co/277lQo3cba

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ONIP1966/status/1670540822394044418