#Partygate Serial Lying

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Boris Johnson breached National Security at Evgeny Lebedev's villa Perugia Italy under Italian Intelligence surveillance by discussing UK government business with Alexander Lebedev he made sure no UK govt officials present #DeepAI image

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR_aNrigWYWvyJYoWjgEP6fo1MpN38OePuKSzPXcITokaLWjPvKp8oKgF4iXfl6RZVsMWl7kDUsjf_8/pub It is beyond reasonable doubt that Boris Johnson breached National Security at Evgeny Lebedev's villa Perugia Italy under Italian Intelligence surveillance by discussing UK government business with Alexander Lebedev. He made sure no UK government officials were present. #BorisJohnson #WideOpenToBlackmail #JohnsonCompromisesNationalSecurityUK by #Kompromat: 'In Russian or Soviet espionage: compromising information collected for use in blackmailing, discrediting, or manipulating a person, group, etc., esp. for political purposes. Also: a piece or a collection of such material.' Oxford English Dictionary ...

Boris Johnson's visit to Evgeny Lebedev's villa in Perugia, Italy, has raised concerns about national security due to the property being monitored by Italy's secret intelligence service, which believed it was being used for espionage purposes. The visit is significant because Johnson, then the foreign secretary, reportedly attended a party at the villa without any government officials present and without informing the Foreign Office beforehand…’ #DeepAIGeneratedImage symbolising Johnson's duplicity, failed leadership, proven Brexit, COVID and Partygate Serial Lying #RussianInterference #BrexitLies #COVIDLies #PartygateLies #JohnsonLies #PeopleDie #LordEvgenyLebedev #AlexanderLebedev #VladimirPutin #FightingClimateCrisisMeansFightingPoliticalCorruptionUKCARUS #Perplexity #AI LlewelynPritchard 5 January 2024

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Second-Rate Britain 4

By any stretch of the imagination Britain is far from the most corrupt country in the world. The United Kingdom is the 18th least corrupt nation out of 180 countries, according to the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International. Not too bad you might think, but in 2017 we were rated the 8th least corrupt country in the world. Clearly something has gone wrong.

“Peoples indifference is the best breeding ground for corruption to grow.”  Delia Ferreira Rubio.

Is this the reason the UK is becoming more corrupt and not less? Everyone in the Conservative Party knew Boris Johnson was a serial liar when they elected him as leader in 2019. Most of the general public who voted Tory in the last general election knew he was a serial liar when they elected him Prime Minister.

A majority of the British electorate WERE indifferent to Johnson’s lying, and this has set the tone for UK politics for the last five years. But it was not only the electorate that turned a blind eye to Boris Johnson’s lying.

“Its not just Boris Johnson’s lying. It’s that the media let him get a way with it. The prime minister’s falsehoods are mostly left unchallenged. If this goes on, the integrity of our politics faces collapse." (Guardian 18/10/19)

This is exactly what has happened. Scandal, sleaze and corruption have been the hallmark of Tory government for the last five years.

 In 2019, Johnson unlawfully prorogued Parliament, in an attempt to avoid Parliamentary scrutiny of his Brexit deal

Priti Patel, Home Secretary, was found to have broken the ministerial code during an enquiry into allegations of bullying.

Conservatives were accused of cronyism during the pandemic, issuing billions of pounds worth of contracts to their friends and supporters

In 2020, Johnson’s staff began to break Covid lockdown rules

 Matt Hancock forced to resign for breaking Lockdown rules.

The Partygate scandal broke, with Johnson denying any rules or guidelines had been broken. 

Former Tory Minister, and close friend of Johnson, Owen Paterson was found to be in “egregious breach" of lobbying rules, involving two companies paying him £100,00 per year.

Simon Case, the UK’s most senior civil servant, forced to stand down because he had attended one of the Downing Street lockdown parties he was charged with investigating.

In 2022, The Deputy Chief Whip of the Conservative Party was forced to resign after allegations that he had groped men.  It was reported that Johnson knew of this behaviour but had failed to take action.

Other dubious actions regarding Johnson involved payments around the refurbishment of Johnson’s flat: questions around who paid for his luxury Mustique holiday: an £800.000 loan and the political appointment of Richard Sharp as BBC Director General: a life peerage given to the son of a Russian oligarch despite the security forces telling Johnson it would be a security risk.

The list could go on, as there are many more examples of sleaze and corruption under Johnson’s period as PM.

We all know that his own party eventually forced Johnson out of office as even they had had enough of continuing Johnsonian scandals. The Johnson era culminated in the Parliamentary Privileges Committee investigating whether Johnson had deliberately lied or recklessly misled Parliament over the Partygate Scandal.  This committee has yet to issue its verdict.

It is interesting to note that it was lying to Parliament about partying that was Johnson’s final undoing. All of the other scandals, often involving large sums of money or turning a blind eye to unethical and ministerial code-breaking behaviour, went largely uncensored.

Is Johnson’s downfall a turning point? No, Johnson’s premiership has set the new low standard of behaviour in public office, and we can expect to fall further down the World Corruption Table.

From Sunak’s wife claiming non-dom status to save millions of pounds in UK taxes, to Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi breaching the ministerial code by hiding the fact he was being investigated for tax avoidance, sleaze is still the order of the day. Suella Braverman was forced to resign from one government for breaching the ministerial code only to be reappointed by another. From allegations of bullying by Gavin Williamson (forced to resign) and Rishi Sunak’s right-hand man Dominic Raab (ongoing enquiry), the current Tory administration is besieged by ongoing scandal.

Only  last week

“Former British cabinet ministers Matt Hancock and Kwasi Kwarteng were among the top Tory lawmakers who were duped into offering their services for up to 10,000 pounds by a fake South Korean firm, amidst a row over MPs taking second jobs.” (wionnews:26/03/23)

Some of these actions may not be illegal under UK law, but I would argue many of them are morally corrupt. And as Pope Francis said, ”Corruption is paid by the poor”. While our politicians are either busy feathering their own nests, or defending the privileges they already enjoy, it is ordinary decent people who suffer.

I would like to think that Kirk Cobain's believe that it is "the duty of youth...to challenge corruption" had some traction in the UK but I would be disappointed.

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Boris Johnson Trying to ‘Silence’ Questions About Evgeny Lebedev A Labour MP says Adam Bienkov #ByLineTimes 26 Aug 2022

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR_aNrigWYWvyJYoWjgEP6fo1MpN38OePuKSzPXcITokaLWjPvKp8oKgF4iXfl6RZVsMWl7kDUsjf_8/pub It is beyond reasonable doubt that Boris Johnson breached National Security at Evgeny Lebedev's villa Perugia Italy under Italian Intelligence surveillance by discussing UK government business with Alexander Lebedev. He made sure no UK government officials were present. #BorisJohnson #WideOpenToBlackmail #JohnsonCompromisesNationalSecurityUK by #Kompromat: 'In Russian or Soviet espionage: compromising information collected for use in blackmailing, discrediting, or manipulating a person, group, etc., esp. for political purposes. Also: a piece or a collection of such material.' Oxford English Dictionary ...

Boris Johnson's visit to Evgeny Lebedev's villa in Perugia, Italy, has raised concerns about national security due to the property being monitored by Italy's secret intelligence service, which believed it was being used for espionage purposes. The visit is significant because Johnson, then the foreign secretary, reportedly attended a party at the villa without any government officials present and without informing the Foreign Office beforehand…’ #DeepAIGeneratedImage symbolising Johnson's duplicity, failed leadership, proven Brexit, COVID and Partygate Serial Lying #RussianInterference #BrexitLies #COVIDLies #PartygateLies #JohnsonLies #PeopleDie #LordEvgenyLebedev #AlexanderLebedev #VladimirPutin #FightingClimateCrisisMeansFightingPoliticalCorruptionUKCARUS #Perplexity #AI LlewelynPritchard 5 January 2024