General Discussion of UK Politics

[stattointhailand]

What a shock that NOBODY saw coming ......... P & O sack all 800 British workers and bus in foreign agency workers to take their place.
Where was BOJO 2 days ago?
Dubai ......
having discussions with who?
the guy who owns the p& O parent company DP world
Nice to see the cheaper Agency workers from abroad bused in so quickly but.....
How did they get their visas ?.... no chance they had enough Pritler points to qualify so someone knew in advance and "fixed it" for them
Surely they cant just sack 800 staff who did nothing wrong
with no EU backing they dont have any rights since Brexit

Tory Corruption at its finest

[GT93]

I understand it was all lawful and I can't see the Tories doing much about it. Meanwhile Johnson has been hanging out with one of the world's leading villains:

[pepesgrill]

bromance they're calling it " i miss you mbs "

" no, i miss you more boris " whatever it takes

[GT93]

[GT93]

I suppose there might be some votes in this.

[stattointhailand]

Well SOMEBODY has to top up the Tory party coffers now their Roubles aint worth as much

[Earnest]

Here's a 2018 Guardian report on Saudi and Russian money supporting the Conservatives. Not many people took alot of notice back then and as the writer says, the idea of a Labour leader accepting money from a Cuban would have mortified right wingers.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -extremism

[pepesgrill]

i wasn't aware the u.k. was an exporter of weaponry. but you gotta have something to trade saudis for the oil. everybody selling to whoever

[Earnest]

I think we're the fifth or sixth largest weapons supplier.

[GT93]

The Russian tank crews won't be too thrilled about the NLAW anti-tank missiles exported from the UK. British revenge for Salisbury.

[stattointhailand]

Oh dear Rishi

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[Earnest]

Unfortunately, we have another two years of these clowns.

[stattointhailand]

Didn't realise 'till today that Sunak's mrs was actually richer than the Queen, so I presume "greasing a few palms" wasn't too much of a problem for an aspiring politician

[GT93]

Yes, I read that about his wife's family a while ago. It's amazing that at one stage this dude, apologies to KP for the American language, looked like he might one day become Prime Minister. Sunak makes Thaksin look like a small fish and the down and out Trump like Arthur Daley.

I'm surprised Sunak didn't have rehearsed answers to those kinds of questions. What a clown.

[tamada]

Rishi Sunak’s wife handed £12m dividend from company with Russian operation

Chancellor’s family has £727m stake in Infosys

Rishi Sunak's wife is thought to have received almost £12m in dividends in the past year from a business criticised for keeping its Russian office open despite the war in Ukraine.

Akshata Murty, the Chancellor’s spouse, owns 0.93pc or 39m shares in Infosys, the Indian technology company founded by her billionaire father, according to Bloomberg data.

Her stake is worth about £727m today, an increase of more than £200m compared to a year ago due to a jump in the share price.

PS: This news NOT brought to you by the Grauniad.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... operation/

[stattointhailand]

Meanwhile in Westminster ...............

[GT93]

And:



Bit of a concern. It will be interesting to see what comes of this.

[stattointhailand]

Some geezer wearing red/white/black robe ........ can have a wild stab at who it might be, but would have been far easier if the picture was given a reference

[GT93]

Putin and Johnson's man in the House of Lords.

[stattointhailand]