Bojo on good form

Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
D

Deleted member 49

Guest
newfhouse said:
Two stories in one here, the demonstrably corrupt Johnson and then the populist media doing as they’re told and burying it.

View attachment 1467

You might have thought it one of the scoops of the year – the allegation that when he was foreign secretary, Boris Johnson wanted to install his then-lover Carrie Symonds as his chief of staff on a salary of at least £100,000 a year, before senior colleagues made it clear that such a “flagrant abuse of ethics” would have been unacceptable.
Yet the story was turned down by one leading newspaper, then picked up and printed by another before disappearing altogether.
The Daily Mail was offered it, but turned it down, with the tipster being told it didn’t accord with the newspaper’s “general point of view”. Rupert Murdoch’s Times was next on the tipster’s list. Their journalist, Simon Walters, was put on the story and he promptly identified four allies of Johnson who confirmed it to him.
The story got juicier still: Johnson was still married at the time to Marina Wheeler, but his staff became aware of his affair with when he was caught with Symonds in his Commons office.

Walters quoted one of Johnson’s senior foreign office staffers as saying: “An illicit relationship with Carrie was none of our business. Making her chief of staff was definitely our business. Our job was to protect him and we knew what was going on between them, and it would have been an insane risk to let him do it.” Another staffer was quoted as saying that, apart from anything else, Symonds was “relatively inexperienced” and the feeling was she wasn’t the “right person” for the job.

Walters stated that three of Johnson’s aides – including Ben Gascoigne, now one of his deputy chiefs of staffs and a friend of Wheeler, threatened to resign over the proposed appointment. Walters got the story into the Timeson page five. MailOnline, conscious that they couldn’t ignore such a big story once it was out in the public domain, duly followed it up.

Johnson was in Kyiv when he heard that the story was about to break and quickly forgot all about his friend Volodymyr Zelensky’s problems. He got his staff on the case and the story was dropped from later editions of today’s Times and the story promptly disappeared, too, from MailOnline.

The ministerial code – which Johnson felt the need to update last month – states clearly that “working relationships with civil servants, colleagues and staff should be proper and appropriate.”

Walters ended his piece by saying he had approached No 10, Mrs Johnson and Gascoigne, but all had “declined to comment”.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/bo...-carrie-symonds-a-100000-downing-street-role/
Click to expand...
Strange how that article miraculously dissapeared....🙄
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/bo...-carrie-symonds-a-100000-downing-street-role/
 
Mugshot

Mugshot

Über Member
Beebo said:
I give you the totally newsworthy article from the Daily Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...er-spotted-leaving-London-home-boyfriend.html

They have even priced up her modest clothing. I’m sure Carrie doesn’t wear such cheap rags.
Click to expand...
Funnily enough that was exactly the one that sprang to my mind too.
 
newfhouse

newfhouse

pleb
5110EF6F-D92E-418F-A666-5D8A448A3D5F.jpeg
 
D

Deleted member 49

Guest
Ian H said:
I think we can discount any idea of a super-injunction. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...the-curious-case-of-the-vanishing-times-story
The quiet word in the ear of friendly media moguls seems the most likely reason.
Click to expand...
Lol ...
Alastair Campbell, the former No 10 director of communications under Tony Blair, tweeted on Sunday that the disappearance of the story appeared to be “further evidence that much of our media is essentially an extension of the press office of a liar and a crook”. He also said that the Times owner, Rupert Murdoch, had “done so much damage to journalism”.
The irony of Campbell calling out Murdoch!
 
deptfordmarmoset

deptfordmarmoset

Über Member
Adam4868 said:
Lol ...
Alastair Campbell, the former No 10 director of communications under Tony Blair, tweeted on Sunday that the disappearance of the story appeared to be “further evidence that much of our media is essentially an extension of the press office of a liar and a crook”. He also said that the Times owner, Rupert Murdoch, had “done so much damage to journalism”.
The irony of Campbell calling out Murdoch!
Click to expand...
You're right but it doesn't make Campbell wrong either.
 
D

Deleted member 49

Guest
deptfordmarmoset said:
You're right but it doesn't make Campbell wrong either.
Click to expand...
Campbell crying about the press and journalism just shows how fecked we are ! You don't really get to take moral high ground with me when you've as much blood on your hands as him.... All whilst playing into Murdoch's hands himself with his lies.
 
D

Deleted member 49

Guest
Johnson makes Paul Dacre the former editor of the Daily Mail a fecking LORD! Could this country actually get any more corrupt...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

S
Tips on starting a religion
Replies
15
E
What to watch on Election Night
Replies
29
A
Good to be Welsh
Replies
10
Chromatic
What number are we up to now on Bastard Landlords threads?
Replies
7
Top Bottom