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Bulletguy - 2019-11-10 2:37 PM

 

John52 - 2019-11-10 1:32 PM

 

If BoJo was innocent why wouldn't he want it done before the vote *-)

Exactly......but his acolytes prefer this to be swept under the carpet.

...and yet they moan about this so called 'Foreign Aid' - which BoJo wants to increase ...

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John52 - 2019-11-10 2:52 PM

 

Bulletguy - 2019-11-10 2:37 PM

 

John52 - 2019-11-10 1:32 PM

 

If BoJo was innocent why wouldn't he want it done before the vote *-)

Exactly......but his acolytes prefer this to be swept under the carpet.

...and yet they moan about this so called 'Foreign Aid' - which BoJo wants to increase ...

It's not the only thing this corrupt government want hushed up either. They've blocked a report by UK intelligence with evidence on Russian covert actions including allegations of electoral interference in the referendum.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50256887

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/04/no-10-blocks-russia-eu-referendum-report-until-after-election

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Bulletguy - 2019-11-10 3:55 PM

 

 

Russian covert actions including allegations of electoral interference in the referendum.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50256887

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/04/no-10-blocks-russia-eu-referendum-report-until-after-election

 

So the Communists were supporting BoJo

So much for the Mad Hatters accusations of Jeremy Corbyn being the Communist *-)

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John52 - 2019-11-10 4:35 PM

 

Bulletguy - 2019-11-10 3:55 PM

 

 

Russian covert actions including allegations of electoral interference in the referendum.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50256887

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/04/no-10-blocks-russia-eu-referendum-report-until-after-election

 

So the Communists were supporting BoJo

So much for the Mad Hatters accusations of Jeremy Corbyn being the Communist *-)

Brexit in it's entirety which is why Putin is in cahoots with Trump, both want to break the EU and using the UK to do it. Pelmet can't grasp the bigger picture and still thinks of 'commies' as the 'red peril' and 'lefties' whilst all the time they've used dummies like him to soak up the sunlit uplands propaganda and keep parroting the party mantras.

 

It's been widely covered in the media some time now but the acolytes have closed their eyes and ears.

 

 

Russian donors have stepped up Tory funding

 

As Johnson accused of ‘cover-up’ over Kremlin interference, major new Russian donations to Conservatives revealed – despite previous Tory pledge to distance themselves from Russian money.

 

The Conservatives have received significant recent cash injections from a number of Russian donors and their associates, an openDemocracy investigation has discovered.

 

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/revealed-russian-donors-have-stepped-tory-funding/

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Shadow Foreign sceretary Emily Thornberry has also asked what level of security vetting Cummings received. After graduating from Oxford he spent three years in Russia from 1994 to 1997. I doubt he went purely as a sightseeing tourist. Key points in her letter are;

 

1) What was Cummings’s relationship with academics at Oxford University, and did they discuss the possibility of working to support the post-communist Russian government?

 

2) Was Cummings questioned about the purpose of his three-year period of work in post-communist Russia between 1994 and 1997, including relationships with figures in Russian politics, intelligence and security?

 

3) Was Cummings questioned about relationships with members of the group Conservative Friends of Russia?

 

This report Johnson is trying to hold back should be made public now before the GE so we can see what this corrupt government is so anxious to hide from the electorate.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/03/dominic-cummings-labour-questions-russia-links

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That lying charlatan Johnson (who promised his acolytes he'd die in a ditch by Oct 31st) is going to have to release this report as media are on to it big time. He'll have to ask his pal Cummings for permission.

 

This is todays Times article posted in full as it's paywalled.

 

Russian Tory donors named in secret report

 

Intelligence agencies are ‘furious’ over No 10’s block on publication

 

Nine Russian business people who gave money to the Conservative Party are named in a secret intelligence report on the threats posed to UK democracy which was suppressed last week by Downing Street.

 

Oligarchs and other wealthy Tory donors were included in the report on illicit Russian activities in Britain by the cross-party intelligence and security select committee (ISC), whose publication was blocked by No 10.

 

Some Russian donors are personally close to the prime minister. Alexander Temerko, who has worked for the Kremlin’s defence ministry and has spoken warmly about his “friend” Boris Johnson, has gifted more than £1.2m to the Conservatives over the past seven years.

 

MPs on the ISC, which conducted an 18-month inquiry, were also briefed on Alexander Lebedev, the former KGB spy in London whom the last Labour government allowed to buy the London Evening Standard newspaper.

 

Lebedev’s son Evgeny invited Johnson when he was foreign secretary to parties at the family’s converted castle near Perugia, Italy. The future prime minister apparently travelled without the close-protection police officers that normally accompany senior ministers of state during the trip in April 2018.

 

The largest Russian Tory donor is Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of Vladimir Chernukhin, a former ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. She paid £160,000 in return for a tennis match with Johnson and has donated more than £450,000 in the last year alone.

 

Britain’s intelligence agencies are understood to be “furious” at the delay in releasing the report because measures to protect sensitive information have already been taken.

 

It is not known whether the Tory donors are named in the public section of the report, or whether they have been included in its confidential annex, which will remain classified indefinitely.

 

The government’s argument that it needs more time to redact information has been dismissed by the former cabinet secretary Lord Butler, Lord Ricketts, a former national security adviser, and Lord Anderson, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation.

 

Last week, Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, told MPs the delay was “utterly unjustifiable, unprecedented and clearly politically motivated”. She added: “I fear it is because they realise that this report will lead to other questions about the links between Russia and Brexit and the current leadership of the Tory party, which risks derailing their election campaign. What is Downing Street so worried about?”

 

Thornberry also raised a whistleblower’s claims regarding “relationships” that Johnson’s chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, made during the “mysterious three years he spent in post-communist Russia”. She said the Downing Street chief of staff allegedly met Vladislav Surkov, who is known as the “grey cardinal” of the Kremlin and has close links to Russia’s security agencies.

 

In the Commons, Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, said last week that he would not comment on security clearances, but denied the “insinuation” that No 10 was “in the grip of a Kremlin mole”.

 

In a letter to Thornberry last week, Sir Mark Sedwill, the cabinet secretary, also did not deny the unusual arrangement. “Classified information, especially intelligence, is made available only to those with the appropriate security clearance,” he wrote. “This applies to Mr Cummings and his access is appropriate for someone in his role.”

 

A Conservative Party spokesman said: “We cannot speculate on what may or may not be in a leaked parliamentary report.”

 

Andrew Gwynne, a Labour parliamentary candidate, said: “Billionaires fund the Conservative Party, so this sordid cover-up shouldn’t be surprising. The Tories blocked this report and oppose tax transparency so their billionaire backers can continue to rip us off unchallenged.

 

“Labour is on the side of the many, not the few, so we’ll get dirty money out of politics, introduce an oligarch levy and take on the vested interests selling out our people and public services.”

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russian-tory-donors-named-in-secret-report-z98nqpkx0

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/TomJHarper/status/1193279348851314688

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jumpstart - 2019-11-11 6:50 AM

 

It’s hardly “hushed” if you’ve just published it. Can’t be that secret.

 

Try reading the links before commenting on them.

Its not difficult to understand.

The EU is a bigger economy than USA or Soviet Union.

So Brexit is in their interests - divide and rule.

And BoJo isn't fussy who he gets support from...

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John52 - 2019-11-11 6:55 AM

 

jumpstart - 2019-11-11 6:50 AM

 

It’s hardly “hushed” if you’ve just published it. Can’t be that secret.

 

Try reading the links before commenting on them.

Its not difficult to understand.

The EU is a bigger economy than USA or Soviet Union.

So Brexit is in their interests - divide and rule.

And BoJo isn't fussy who he gets support from...

 

Well that’s my point entirely....they’re not secret are they if everybody knows. You do make me laugh.

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jumpstart - 2019-11-11 6:50 AM

 

It’s hardly “hushed” if you’ve just published it. Can’t be that secret.

 

Oh Dear *-)

Bulletguy has copied and pasted the quote from the link above and you still haven't read it.

How can I put it more clearly.

THE REPORT HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED.

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pelmetman - 2019-11-11 7:41 AM

 

John52 - 2019-11-11 6:55 AM

 

The EU is a bigger economy than USA or Soviet Union.

 

It's about to get a lot smaller after Brexit ;-) ...........

 

Yes of course - thats my point - and why Brexit is being supported by Communist Putin.

BoJo's pre-election unfunded spending promises include raising Unemployment Benefit.

You may be obsessed with Left and Right wing - but do you think BoJo really cares where his money and votes comes from?

Communist Putin's pound is worth the same as yours. Why would BoJo value one more than the other? He has already shown how easily he can switch sides from Remain to Leave - when its in his own interest. Why would he care about switching from Right Wing to Left Wing?

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jumpstart - 2019-11-11 8:31 AM

 

Yes I understand that,but the contents are known and they are going to publish it but not yet . Not much of a story really.

 

Well thats a start :-D

Let me try another quote from above;

It is not known whether the Tory donors are named in the public section of the report, or whether they have been included in its confidential annex, which will remain classified indefinitely.

 

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