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How will CON voters view Johnson’s relationship with Lededev? – politicalbetting.com
How will CON voters view Johnson’s relationship with Lededev? – politicalbetting.com
One of the must reads in the Sunday papers look set to be the above in the Sunday Times and raises huge questions over why Johnson overruled advisors and insisted that Lebedev be made a member of the House of Lords.
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Like Man Utd, remarkably.
Ronaldo!
Great game
EXCLUSIVE w/@harryyorke1
The head of MI6 had concerns about Boris Johnson’s friend Evgeny Lebedev almost a decade ago
In 2013, Sir John Sawers repeatedly rejected bid by KGB agent’s son to meet at MI6 HQ
No10 doesn't deny PM knew about incident
Lebedev instructed editor of the Independent, a paper he owned, to get him access to lunch with MI6 chief
Sawers refused, said he'd play no role in Lebedev campaign to infiltrate the establishment
Lebedev pushed back. MI6, aware of significant risks in meeting him, held firm
At the time, Johnson was building a close friendship with Lebedev
The incident was relayed to his most senior aides. One said it’s implausible he didn’t know too
But then London mayor kept seeing Lebedev, repeatedly visiting his villa and castle in Italy
New docs show Johnson opened doors of City Hall to Lebedev, who pitched festival with “substantial support” from Kremlin
He said he’d be “thrilled” if Lebedev’s papers could cover him positively
And he received £7k of flights, accommodation and private cars in three years
During this time Lebedev closely mirrored Putin positions
He suggested MI6 may have killed Alexander Litvinenko, played down invasion of Crimea, said Putin showed leadership in Syria
He said Russians thanked Putin for “unimaginable freedoms, “regained sense of national pride"
Fast Forward to 2019: Johnson said he wanted to give a peerage to Lebedev immediately after becoming PM
One former aide said he was “pathological” about it
Another believed it was a joke at first but said Johnson was determined
In March 2020, House of Lords Appointments Commission advised Johnson against nominating Lebedev
Peers cited national security concerns raised by British intelligence
Per source, PM reacted with disbelief, suggesting Lebedev couldn’t possibly be a risk
He then instructed officials to challenge intelligence assessment,
PM had rejected their analysis and wanted a specific reason why he couldn’t nominate Lebedev
Civil servant says this isn’t how intel works. PM seized on absence of one reason to re-submit nomination
Keir Starmer has written to Lord Bew of Holac asking it to make two unprecedented decisions: review Lebedev’s peerage, publish its advice to the PM
Marina Litvinenko also calls for review
Lebedev refused to comment at all but on Friday denied being a national security risk
https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1502707326452654085
Anyway insane paradox, but the fact we are virtually at war with Russia will thoroughly detract from the fact that the PM is a Russian spy. NTSH, MA.
Boris Johnson is the Roger Hollis de nos jours.
One former aide said he was “pathological” about it
Another believed it was a joke at first but said Johnson was determined"
is worth a stand-alone excerpt.
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bollox argument from you, if even one of them is a deviant it is one too many.
Just shut the fuck up Malcolm. Enlessly you convery a slime trail of poison. I and others have repeatedly tried to pick the good from the bad in your character. There is good, i'll admit. The efforts though have been wildly misplaced. I've had enough. You're an arse of the first rank, you are irresponsible beyond measure, and you're thick as a plank.
Let me know if I've left anything out.
The truth upsetting you sunshine.
Likewise Mandelson is yesterday's man.
Johnson is currently the PM. Any mud will stick to him for that reason alone.
No, you are upsetting me. Sort yourself out.
Its a Westminster bubble non-story pushed by whining woke remoaners who want to flood the country with asylum-seeking Ukrainian terrorists.Its disgusting to suggest the Prime Minister - close friends with the KGB - has a problem he needs to answer for. How unpatriotic to suggest so.
'Advising the LOTO' is a long way from 'being the PM.' However much Mandelson is a hate figure for the media, they will definitely find Johnson being accused of treason more newsworthy.
He's done his stint.
Me: So say it
You: I have no more to say
Fine
Anyone supporting it is not right in the head period.
If you think so , really sort yourself out. Trampling women's rights is far from funny.
Daniel Litvak, the leader of Porto's Jewish community, is being held as part of an investigation into possible cases of corruption, money laundering and tax evasion, Portuguese news agency Lusa reports
I thought Roman got Cypriot citizenship, when the UK wouldn't extend his visa, so why did he need another EU passport?
The title of the thread
Says, wrongly, Lebeved.
An obnoxious arsehole extrodinaire.
I presume perhaps worried about the scandal behind how all those cypriot passports were given out, but now wrapped up ina scandal of how Portuguese passports given out.
bribe the committeesupport the dignity of the office.As for British right wing politicians´ relationships with the Siloviki, we should note that many people warned about this a long time ago. As people here know well, I am particularly contemptuous of those like Banks, Farage, or Rees Mogg among others (and Alex Salmond, I may add), who have had close financial relationships with Russia, even when it was quite clear what kind of regime Putin leads. As for Johnson, he too was warned. At the very least all of them should disclose the precise nature of their dealings with those close to the Russian regime. However that will needs must be after this crisis abates, for now we must concentrate on saving as much as we can in Ukraine and weakening the Putin regime with all the tools we have. This does not end for at least as long as VVP leads Russia.
The (revolting) toy poodle from Blackpool. Chow chow is runner up
How are Russians in Estonia reacting to what's happening?
That's a problem in topology, vs a problem about minimising distances.
Probably the dimmest bit of idiocy seen on this site since the demise of the much lamented @Ash.
You know full well that you're being wildly abusive, and unthinkingly so. It's the unthinking bit that really gets my goat. I doubt I'm alone in this and I doubt you think I'm alone in this.
Come on guys, PB is better than this
I'm yet to see any criticism of Jeremy Corbyn or his ilk, who spent months apologising and whatabouting for the Salisbury chemical weapons attacks.
To be fair, there were some heartwarming scenes of Berliners coming out to help refugees arriving at the main rail station. As for the UK, yes we can take our share but we can also do all we can to support those countries taking the bulk of the refugees such as Poland both financially and with infrastructure.
We can but hope this doesn't become a Ukrainian Diaspora and that their enforced exile is temporary and that means again money to rebuild the damage caused by Putin - I suppose we should get the Russian oligarchs to pay up but, in lieu of selling their yachts and their London properties to fund the reconstruction, we should do as we can to help Ukraine once again become a prosperous country.
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The Russian Central Bank has announced that Russia’s stock market will remain closed for the next week and a new decision will then be taken about whether to prolong it.
But wtf is this Utility? What is the utility of a toy or miniature poodle, other than something to kick after a difficult day at the office? Or are these dogs suitable to be kept in the utility room?
As it was the Mail, we also had the obligatory double page bitch about Harry and Meghan.
Corbyn's not in power - he's never been in power. The Conservatives have been the leading party of Government since 2010 - if you want to "blame" anyone in Britain for empowering Putin's aggression, it's probably easier to look t those who've had the power rather than those who haven't (as the Sunday Times does).
But Messi was better.
I will take him more seriously when he changes that.
Let me know if I've left anything out."
That's what I'm on about.
Is this unfair?
This section :
"In early 2016, with the EU referendum approaching, Lebedev was present for the evening when Johnson invited Michael Gove to his Islington home and the pair, in the company of their wives, Marina and Sarah, decided to back Brexit."
..is as fascinating as the confirmation that Alexander Dugin's "Foundations of Geopolitics" , which has been an officially approved military manual in the Russian command for twenty years now , stresses the importance of "separating Britain from Europe" ; as well as, on the American front, for example.. :
Within the United States itself, there is a need for the Russian special services and their allies "to provoke all forms of instability and separatism within the borders of the United States. "It is especially important," Dugin adds, "to introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements-- extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics" (367).
And there might be worse ways to destroy the Kremlin kleptocracy.
Somewhere there must be a reasonable compromise.
Topology is in my view the maths of everything. I rather wish I could make sense of it
Try using a brain cell and point out the gaps in my argument on women's rights and I may listen. Just posting that verbal diahorrea is mindless.
PS I am highlighting fact that I have no idea what you are on about but you certainly seem to have gotten your panties in a bunch big time.
PPS: Reasonable attempt at the insulting though
I hate to quote wikipedia in this sort of context, but I am tired and want to have a bath, so
The Seven Bridges of Königsberg is a historically notable problem in mathematics. Its negative resolution by Leonhard Euler in 1736[1] laid the foundations of graph theory and prefigured the idea of topology.[2]
Let's agree though that the crucial point about both graph and topolgy theory is that they don't give a toss about real world shapes and distances.
Let me know if I've left anything out."
That's what I'm on about.
Is this unfair?
There is little point having security services if their advice is ignored. The Tories have an absolute brass neck calling themselves the patriotic party. There is nothing remotely patriotic about selling themselves and the country to people who do not have our best interests at heart.
- “Diego Maradona will forever be cherished by Scots for his 'Hand of God' moment in Mexico 1986, but his links with Scotland run much deeper.”
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/55079634
I don't know where you got that from, but if you are capable of the 7 bridges/TS problem conflation, you don't actually understand it any better than a mynah bird repeating it.
@OpiniumResearch
@ObserverUK
poll shows a 2 point Labour lead, which has halved since a fortnight ago.
Con 35% (+1)
Lab 37% (-1)
Lib Dem 9% (-2)
Green 7% (+1)
https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1502736435064967168
Fellow Lib Dems gonna defend a fellow Lib Dem but you can't have it both ways.
Topology tells us how to conect stuff. Thus all of maths and all of life must be about topology. 7 bridges is a connectivity probelm, but the same applies to the travelling salesman if you weight the paths as one.
I think his failed drug test came at the end of his career when he was probably struggling for fitness.
Westminster voting intention:
LAB: 37% (-1)
CON: 35% (+1)
LDEM: 9% (-2)
GRN: 7% (+1)
via
@OpiniumResearch
Boris 28%
Starmer 15%
Not great figures for either but just 15% on Starmer