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The Boris Files

Brigadier said:
Remind me, by how much is the average UK citizen better off since TB went, seeing as we've had the "benefit" of years of Tory custodianship of the nation's finances since?
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It's all got a ******g damn sight worse in the last year.
 
A senior Cabinet Office source confirmed that Johnson had claimed funds under the scheme to pay for staff salaries in his private office. Official data shows he has claimed £182,000 in PDCA payments since leaving government. The files raise questions about whether Johnson has blurred the lines while running the Office of Boris Johnson, a limited company established a month after he left Downing Street.

The cache of files suggest that between October 2022 and May 2024, Johnson was paid approximately £5.1m for 34 speeches. The engagements typically earn him hundreds of thousands of pounds, as well as generous expenses to cover first-class flights and stays in five-star hotels for him and his staff.

The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, defended Johnson’s right to undertake lucrative work after he had left office. “I think that people should be able to earn money when they leave politics,” she told GB News.
 
Of course, de Piffle has a right to earn an honest crust after 'leaving' D. street, but why should he also claim public money when he's turned himself into a private company? He could follow the example of Rish! Sunak and simply not claim the money, which he can make just by an after dinner waffle about the origins of ping pong.

Three former prime ministers have said they do not use a taxpayer subsidy for their private office for any commercial work: Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Liz Truss all said they had only claimed for reimbursements related solely to their public duties.

The scheme was created by Robin Butler, Margaret Thatcher’s loyal cabinet secretary. According to a report in the Times from 1991, it was introduced after friends of Thatcher, by then a backbench MP on a reduced salary, “let the considerable difficulties she faced on leaving office be known at Westminster”. The money was always intended to pay for the public functions expected of former prime ministers, not to subsidise profit-generating business. Former leaders are entitled to use the scheme for the rest of their lives. The amount they can claim has been frozen since 2011.
 
Focussing on the positive, Borris axed MP’s who were regarded as remoaners or who favoured a sensible deal. That chicken has come to roost with the party full of hard right members, many of whom are thinking of deserting to re-form. The latest leaver being Dan Krugger. How ironic that Brexhit might destroy the Torey party.
 
blup said:
Focussing on the positive, Borris axed MP’s who were regarded as remoaners or who favoured a sensible deal. That chicken has come to roost with the party full of hard right members, many of whom are thinking of deserting to re-form. The latest leaver being Dan Krugger. How ironic that Brexhit might destroy the Torey party.
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How ironic that some on here claim that the Conservaties were a party of the left.
 
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