demographic wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:45 am
He didn't report it (which suggests there's a lot more donations/freebies he didn't report) and was fined for it.
So, bearing that in mind, do you still think it was OK?
Then there was that "loan" of 800k that Richard Sharp (of the BBC) areanged and acted as guarantor for. You know, the one that Richard Sharp resigned over.
All above board, nothing to see here, please move on eh?
When you say "He didn't report it" you are being disingenuous. I didn't report it either (neither did you) This is a cheap trick the MSM use to smear their chosen target. You then look at who actually is responsible for reporting the donation and it is a process which at the time was outside of Boris' control. When Boris was informed of the "poor optics" of such "extravagance" he paid it back himself!
Beyond that nominal transgression of accounting procedure, I happen to like the idea of a beautifully and extravagantly decorated office for the Prime Minister of the UK. It's where we entertain our potential political allies to proclaim the status of our great country in the world. We don't want to take them into a disheveled hovel. They could come here for that.
So Boris sought a powerful and established (nee wealthy) individual to act as guarantor for a loan. That is of course a potential conflict of interest due to the position of the guarantor. It's not taking money though.
Unlike Sir Kier Stalin who has been in the pocket of the mysterious Lord Alli who paid off a mortgage for some tart Starmer banged up. Rumour has it he also arranged a quiet payoff. Then there are the HUGE personal contributions directly into the pocket this Champaign socialist. The loan of a multimillion pond apartment, holidays, buying clothes for his wife.
Now while you might try and infer that Boris "must have" been bent because he spent so much on decorating Number 10, we can see that Sir Kier demonstrably is lining his own pocket. The only question being, what does Lord Alli get out of these intensely personal donations? A politician in his pocket?