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·Congrats on BF's resignation.
On the other side of the pond we can't even get our previous guy to resign...
Which one ? Agent Orange ?
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··Ash @ ΩFJust reading this in a news.com.au article and it sounds like something out of Monty Python.
So Mr Pincher got caught groping. And got promoted.
That’s like Jim Larceny getting caught embezzling.
The flurry of resignations was ignited by the news that Mr Johnson had accepted responsibility for promoting Chris Pincher to the post of deputy chief whip, despite knowing he was facing groping allegations.
So Mr Pincher got caught groping. And got promoted.
That’s like Jim Larceny getting caught embezzling.
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·Johnson apparently said "Pincher by name, Pincher by nature". Funny guy. Apparently it was his colleagues' fault for not restraining his (Bozo's) appointee from committing a little light assault after a few drinks. I preferred the opposition leader's gag during the Parliament set-piece on Wednesday, "The sinking ship is now leaving the rat". And you could tell from his tone, he wasn't looking for the laugh. Ouch.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerProps to Hugh Grant and the guy he prompted to blare the theme song from Benny Hill in the background today...
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lillatroll
·What amazed me was that he got the job in the first place. It could not have been a surprise that he would lie, cheat and think he was above the rules. He has been like it his whole life. He got fired from one job for making up quotes for a newspaper article. Too lazy to actually pick up the phone and get an actual quote.
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·Look on the bright side, at least you didn't wind up with Jeremy Corbyn.
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··Purrrr-veyor of luxury cat box loungers“Mossad agent Robert Maxwell...” strange way to identify him. Surely he was better known for other reasons than this. Any idea what publication that was from?
he certainly was.
he was known as a thieving conman who stole hundreds of millions from his employees pension funds.
But he also had links to various security services including British, Soviet and Israeli.
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·What amazed me was that he got the job in the first place. It could not have been a surprise that he would lie, cheat and think he was above the rules. He has been like it his whole life. He got fired from one job for making up quotes for a newspaper article. Too lazy to actually pick up the phone and get an actual quote.
How he had the gall to fire the slithey Michael Gove for disloyalty I have no idea.
Boozo has only ever been loyal to himself and Brexit was always just a way in get into No. 10.
There were millions like me who didn't buy into brand Bo*is.Other eople saw him as some sort of entertainer with his bulbous shape and wiff waff accent.An eccentric genius in other words !?!?!?!
The lies and sleaze have been non stop but the English media which is owned by Rupert Murdoch defended him right till the end.
Adios Boozo I won't miss you.
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grokas
·as the economist put it Clownfall
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·I wonder does it say something about about the state of society in general that we have a much admired ex comedian as a government leader in one country, and an utterly derided ex journalist as a government leader in another?
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·he certainly was.
he was known as a thieving conman who stole hundreds of millions from his employees pension funds.
But he also had links to various security services including British, Soviet and Israeli.
So I wonder why this honed in on his links to Mossad rather than the KGB or MI6?
Again, any idea what publication it was from?
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··Ωf Jury member“Mossad agent Robert Maxwell...” strange way to identify him. Surely he was better known for other reasons than this. Any idea what publication that was from?
The characterization may be a bit extreme, but there is no doubt about the connection, nor that Maxwell worked with Mossad. In 1981 in Seymour Hersh wrote a book called The Samson Option, and characterized him as an asset, not a "spy". Hersh was sued by Maxwell and won a huge settlement, which should lay any questions about the connection to rest.
An author and journalist named Gordon Thomas went much further in his 2003 book Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul, with claims that he was not only a spy for Mossad, but that he stole from them and was ultimately killed by them.
If anyone wants to dig deeper, here is a link to an interesting Affidavit given by Thomas, which includes details of a central connection between Mossad and Maxwell:
https://www.israellobby.org/boydengrayletterswornstatements.pdf
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Peemacgee
··Purrrr-veyor of luxury cat box loungersSo I wonder why this honed in on his links to Mossad rather than the KGB or MI6?
Again, any idea what publication it was from?
I think it was an easy target and just another way to further vilify a proven villain.
A British citizen working with a foreign security agency.
(IIRC Maxwell worked with allied intelligence during the war years. )
Mossad is not thought of particularly fondly so it was another justifiable slur against a pretty terrible person.
Who’s character , again IIRC, even formed part of his sex-trafficking, sexually-assaulting, juvenile-pimping, daughter’s recent defence.
Nice family….
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Peemacgee
··Purrrr-veyor of luxury cat box loungersBut back on topic
I’d like to remember Bozo like this….
-and he couldn’t even pull his f’kin socks up when he was a member of an elitist dining club - oh, how we should all have seen that as a portent of things to come.
I’d like to remember Bozo like this….
-and he couldn’t even pull his f’kin socks up when he was a member of an elitist dining club - oh, how we should all have seen that as a portent of things to come.
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··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorBut back on topic
I’d like to remember Bozo like this….
-and he couldn’t even pull his f’kin socks up when he was a member of an elitist dining club - oh, how we should all have seen that as a portent of things to come.
Anyone else in that group of guys done anything significant ?? Or vice versa
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·The characterization may be a bit extreme, but there is no doubt about the connection, nor that Maxwell worked with Mossad. In 1981 in Seymour Hersh wrote a book called The Samson Option, and characterized him as an asset, not a "spy". Hersh was sued by Maxwell and won a huge settlement, which should lay any questions about the connection to rest.
An author and journalist named Gordon Thomas went much further in his 2003 book Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul, with claims that he was not only a spy for Mossad, but that he stole from them and was ultimately killed by them.
If anyone wants to dig deeper, here is a link to an interesting Affidavit given by Thomas, which includes details of a central connection between Mossad and Maxwell:
https://www.israellobby.org/boydengrayletterswornstatements.pdf
For the record, I'm not trying to defend Maxwell. As far as I'm concerned he was a despicable person. However, I have reasonably sensitive antennae when it comes to extreme anti-Israel / anti-semitic conspiracy theory and the caption over the photo set my alarm bells a-ringing.
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