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The time bussiness minister Paul Scully filibustered to ensure Labour led legislation to out law
Fire and rehire practices could not pass through parliament

Talking of time

6 days after Zac Gildsmith was fired by the electorate Boris Johnson gave him a peerage so he could rehire him to the same job as environmental minister

 

[JohnD]

mutual back-scratching.

"Boris Johnson has confirmed he stayed for free at a holiday home owned by the family of Lord Zac Goldsmith - who received a peerage from the PM in 2019.

The list of ministers' interests says the PM has "a longstanding personal friendship" with the family and "in that capacity" stayed at their place in southern Spain last month.

Downing Street had previously refused to confirm if the trip had happened.

Labour said it was "more evidence of the sleaze engulfing this government".

"It's obvious to everyone that the prime minister is dishing out cushy jobs to his mate who pays for his luxury holidays," said the party's deputy leader Angela Rayner.

"Yet again Boris Johnson behaves like it's one rule for him and another for everyone else."

The party is also calling for an inquiry into why the holiday has not been declared on the Register of Members' Interests - a separate declaration made by all MPs, not just ministers."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59163689

 

[JohnD]

"By not publishing it in the register, he hid the cost of the holiday, reportedly £25,000 a week."

https://www.businessinsider.com/bor...ain-trip-paid-zac-goldsmith-2021-11?r=US&IR=T

 

[fillyboy]

Downing Street had previously refused to confirm if the trip had happened.

Did they need to? it was in all the newspapers at the time.

 

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How ever in the interest of fairness

it has been 22 years since David Evans general Secretary of the Labour Party first presented a plan to over haul the running of the party to Tony Blair

it’s is under Starmers leadership that Evans has finally been given the chance to put his ideas for purging the left into practice

in the paper to Blair Evans described constituency Labour parties as
Dysfunctional and claimed the majority of local Labour party’s are more like

Trotters Independant Traders

 

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The party is in a dodgy state

since December 2019 it has lost
150000 members

it is spending more on legal costs than campaigning

it’s funding has been cut by trade unions and it lost 1.2 mill of the taxpayers funding based on MP numbers following the nett loss of 59 seats


Evans plans are to sort the party is by keeping opponents of Starmer quiet