This needs to get more traction while the lazy ******* is still in office, partying at Chequers while the country burns. https://amp.theguardian.com/politic...son-lebedevs-prime-ministers-defining-scandal Meeting "Ex*" KGB officer immediately after NATO meeting discussing Salisbury, having slipped his security minders and FO officials to travel to said KGB officer's villa for bunga-bunga party. (where guest women were packed off at midnight so that the real fun could begin) * "no such thing as ex-KGB" - Christopher Steele From Guardian December 19: Johnson has refused to answer questions about the visit in April last year, including whether he flew to Italy against the advice of his officials and without the 24/7 security detail usually assigned to the foreign secretary. The pictures, taken at San Francesco d’Assisi airport on Sunday 29 April 2018, suggest he did go to Italy without a police escort. According to another passenger on the flight back to the UK, Johnson was on his own, seemingly without any luggage and very much the worse for wear. The passenger, who asked to remain anonymous, said he was standing in the queue to go through security when he realised the scruffy man “shuffling along” in front of him was Johnson, who was clutching a thick book about war strategy. “It was a surprise to see him. There was nobody with him and he didn’t appear to have any luggage,” said the source. “He was such a mess. He was quite dishevelled and his trousers were twisted and creased. He looked like he had slept in his clothes.” Johnson was recognised by other British and Italian travellers, some of whom asked for selfies, before he retreated into a corner of the departure lounge to snooze. The UK’s most senior diplomat was later overheard telling another passenger that he had had “a heavy night” and that he had been visiting friends. When the passengers were called to the gate before getting on the flight, Johnson is said to have seemed a little off balance. “When he was walking out to the plane, he did this curved walk. I really thought he was going to be sick on the tarmac,” said the source. After landing in the UK, Johnson was picked up straight off the plane by a waiting police car.
Imagine the reaction if that had been Corbyn or McDonnell... Incidentally, I think they both would have been a disaster on Russia/Ukraine had they been in power. But the double standards applied to Johnson over a clear and serious national security breach are mind boggling. As Rory Stewart rightly said, this alone was a resigning/sacking offence.
Surely the Met Plod should now be involved on the strength of the evidence swirling around on this. With their reputation to restore, a swift 4.00am knock at No. 10 or Chequers is called for. The new Chief Commissioner, post-****, Mark Rowley is ex head of Counter Terrorism. He comes without the usual reputation of needing to protect existing Met chums. This move would right up his alley. Pfeffel = Russia. Origin/meaning: Old Slav 'fighter', 'warrior'. A popular Russian name , short for Borislav. All the clues are there. As Ed Davey didn't quite say: "...it's time to show Борис the nice new shiny padlocked cell door!"
To gain an insight into just how far the Russian op extended into British society, government, media, property, sport, the arts, and in fact every facet of life, listen to the Londongrad podcast series by Tortoise Media. It’s absolutely fascinating and puts a lot of historical meat on the bones, drawing some lines to join up the excellent reporting by Carole Cadwalladr. Londongrad focuses on Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev but it goes into a lot more detail about how the Russian buy-up of assets (property, businesses, the Evening Standard newspaper, even Chelsea FC) worked. Truly the British have a compromised Government that has been enabling a foreign power all through society and business. I was talking to an American the other day about the short termism of US politics (which applies to UK politics too) and how we really have no way to really comprehend, let along combat, the long term strategies of Russia, China and the gulf states, who are laying groundwork now - and have been for years - for the future. Truly there should be an inquiry into who in British politics has taken Russian money, why they took it and what they did in return.
I *think* it was Tom Tugendhat on one of Matt Forde's podcasts who was talking about Russian influence and money in the UK parliament. He said he said all parliamentarians were given briefing papers by Parliament's Sajeants-at-Arms Office with photographs of people who they asked to be informed of if they approached by them. The same faces would be attending Tory fundraising events in Westminster...
Bunter still at his apparent peak, telling a Farnborough Air Shoe audience about how he went up in an F15 30 years ago (Top Gun, Big Dog!) and understands how these are now out of date as was the Wellington Bombers his Grandfather flew in the war (bravery runs in the family y’know). He also managed to ask the question ‘who would win in a fight between a Tyrannosaurus and a Killer Whale’ which made me realise that this character is essentially Boris.
I'm not expert but I don't think that's a real dinosaur: they're much bigger in real life (or is that a baby giant pictured?).
